In today's image, we see the trail showing the launch of a Falcon rocked taking a communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit. We also see the descent burns from the return of the two booster rockets. In the foreground, we see a Redstone rocket of the type that carried Alan Shepard into space as the first American to reach space in 1961.

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