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A spectacular video offers us a front-row seat as SpaceX's Falcon Heavy second stage deploys the powerful GOES-U satellite into space as Earth glows in the background.
Don Pettit, 69, will fly to the International Space Station as a part of the Roscosmos-led Soyuz MS-26 mission, which includes Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner.
Greg Eghigian's illuminating 400-page book chronicles how the phenomenon began right here in America then blossomed into a global obsession over the next few decades