Did you hear that rumble? Throughout the month, Wallops will perform motor burns on 25 vintage sounding rocket motors that are not fit to fly science missions due to age-related concerns – some date back to the 1950's! In the past, Taurus motors were used to launch five different NASA vehicles. The first launch was a Taurus-Orion rocket in March 1978. Check out this video of the first motor burn yesterday! | NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

On December 7, 1972, the mighty Saturn V rocket lit up the Florida night sky, carrying Eugene Cernan, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, and Ronald Evans on humanity’s final Apollo mission to the Moon. 🌕 The launch was so bright that even roosters thought morning had arrived early 🐓☀️. While Evans stayed in orbit “house-sitting” the Command Module, Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module Challenger and explored the Taurus-Littrow Valley. They planted the flag, set up experiments, drove the luna