Episode 3488: From Texas, Space X made history today, Bob Zimmerman comments | D-Day’s 80th anniversary – Pratt on Texas 6/6/2024

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: From just south of Brownsville at Starbase all the way to the Indian Ocean, the Space X 4th Superheavy rocket and Starship test flight was an historic success this morning! Famed space historian Robert Zimmerman of Behindtheblack.com joins us to discuss this achievement as well as the work of Texas-based Firefly which has just won a big launch contract from Lockheed Martin.
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We remember D-Day on this 80th anniversary.

• President Ronald Reagan: (VIDEO) “REMARKS AT A CEREMONY COMMEMORATING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NORMANDY INVASION, D-DAY,” POINTE DU HOC, FRANCE (6 JUNE 1984). See written version here.
• Inside Battleship Texas’ historic comeback, 80 years after D-Day
• Texas U.S. Reps. Keith Self, Dan Crenshaw, and Ronny Jackson to parachute over France as part of D-Day remembrance.
• Rudder’s Rangers and the Boys of Pointe du Hoc: The U.S. Army Rangers’ Mission in the Early Morning Hours of 6 June 1944
• Here is Gen. Eisenhower’s storied D-Day message to troops– he was born in Denison, Texas.

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