... The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral . ... A new chapter in space flight began on 1950 July with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida: the Bumper 2. ... Tune your radio telescope to 408MHz (408 million cycles per second) and check out the Radio Sky! ... This mosaic of x-ray images cuts a swath across the photogenic Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery 5,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. ... The Earth and Moon Planetary System . ...