Will the 2025 launch total set another new record? Stay tuned. Crews at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force Station are gearing up for a busy February, primarily comprised of SpaceX Starlink internet satellite missions and the NASA-SpaceX Intuitive Machines moon lander mission.

Five hundred years after the Spanish explorers, billionaires' dreams of new riches and discovery launched from near Canaveral National Seashore echo countless other times in the past 50 years this "place of canes" faced seemingly inevitable onslaughts from ever-closer building cranes and bulldozers.