Live updates from Tuesday morning's SpaceX Starlink 12-6 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center n in Florida.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignites each its engines just as an abort is called at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2024. This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in extinction.