Apollo 10 crew
Honolulu, HAWAII — NASA and the new Space Force may have cancelled their launch this week, but the Samoa News will never let you down. You Coolios know that American Samoa is a major big time space travel player. On May 26, 1969 the Territory welcomed the Apollo 10 crew after their 8 day...

![Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket departed Cape Canaveral Air Force launch pad December 16, 2019 carrying the Kacific-1 communications satellite for 25 Pacific Island (potentially both Samoas) and South East Asian nations. [Photo: Barry Markowitz, courtesy Bluesky Communicatios/Vodafone Samoa]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/kacific_1web.jpg?itok=wCmdpVSF)