The Astros announced the sale of the Space Cowboys and two other minor league teams to Diamond Baseball Holdings on Tuesday.
Mississippi State mechanical engineering senior Cooper Shanks, left, watches as 6-year-old Christopher Best shows off his custom “Christopher VI” rocket, built for him by MSU’s Space Cowboys.
The SpaceX-ULA-SpaceX trio are slated as the record-extending 107th, 108th and 109th orbital rocket launches of the year from Florida's Space Coast.