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Welcome to Kennedy Now! A look at some of the recent accomplishments and changes under way at America's

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premiere spaceport.

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Kennedy Space Center started the New Year with the thunder and fire of three

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liftoffs in about four weeks.

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SpaceX capped the mission succession when a Falcon 9 rocket catapulted away from Space Launch Complex 40

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on March 1 sending a cargo-laden Dragon capsule on a course to resupply the International Space Station.

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Kennedy's commitment to the station reaches beyond launch specialties.

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Technicians working inside the specialized facilities at Kennedy packed about 1,200 pounds of

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experiments, supplies and equipment to withstand launch and ascent inside the SpaceX Dragon.

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Workers at Kennedy also loaded equipment and supplies for a supply flight that will start

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later this year in Japan. The material will fly inside an HTV launching to the orbiting station.

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Kicking off the 2013 launch schedule, a communications satellite rode into orbit atop an Atlas V on

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January 31. Called TDRS-K, the spacecraft was built specifically for NASA's unique needs to stay in

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contact with the station and the agency's fleet of scientific spacecraft

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On February 11, teams from Kennedy converged on California to oversee the flawless countdown

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and launch of a cutting edge spacecraft that will continue to collect data about

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Earth's changing conditions.

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The Landsat Data Continuity Mission satellite, to be renamed Landsat 8,

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soared on the strength of an Atlas V booster, a rocket that is fast-becoming the agency's workhorse.

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With new resupply rockets, spacecraft and cargo already taking shape for launch this year from Kennedy,

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along with a new mission to Mars called Maven, there will be no shortage of