On Florida’s Space Coast, a return to the ‘good days’ of launching astronauts is near with decade-defining SpaceX flight

ORLANDO, Fla. – Kyle Mallory was on the runway when the space shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center for the last time, ending human spaceflight from the United States with a screech of its wheels in the early hours of July 21, 2011. Just this week, nine years later, Mallory was there again as America prepares its return. He watched as crews loaded SpaceX’s Crew Dragon with …