<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><div class=""><div class=""><div class="mh-posts-large-thumb" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative;"><a href="https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/02/12/fire-returns-to-flame-trench-at-apollo-era-launch-pad-in-florida/" title="Fire returns to flame trench at Apollo-era launch pad in Florida" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;" class=""></a></div><div class="mh-posts-large-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="mh-posts-large-header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="mh-posts-large-title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 2rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">Nine Merlin engines ignited and throttled up to nearly 2 million pounds of thrust Sunday during a brief hold-down firing of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, sending a plume of smoke out of the flame trench at Kennedy Space Center’s historic launch pad 39A as the company preps for a space station cargo mission next weekend.</span></span></h3></header></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="title-bar" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 738.75px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; font-size: 2.2em;">Scientists Shortlist Three Landing Sites for Mars 2020</h1></div></div><section id="ember953" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/mars2020_landingsites_gusevjezerosyrtis.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; background-position: 0px 0px;" class=""></a></div></div></div></section></div></body></html>