President-elect Donald Trump appears to be planning to attend a SpaceX “Starship” rocket launch on Tuesday, in the latest indication of founder Elon Musk’s influence in the Republican’s orbit.
SpaceX The historic SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, which includes the first-ever commercial spacewalk, will launch tonight from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Four private astronauts, three of whom have never been to space before, will travel to the highest altitud...
Today, SpaceX is scheduled to launch a previously flown Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Liftoff is currently scheduled for 3:47 PM ET (12:47 PM PT). The payload includes five Iridum NEXT communication satellites and a pair of Earth-observing satellites called GR...
The Starlink 8-11 mission was originally scheduled to launch today; however, it was postponed until September 5 and is now scheduled for liftoff at 8:35 a.m. EDT. SpaceX elected to postpone the launch due to "unfavorable booster recovery weather conditions in the Atlantic." The...
The launch is scheduled for 4:41 a.m. PT, but if there are any issues with the launch today then there is a backup opportunity for launch tomorrow, Sunday, December 19, at 1:03 a.m. PT. Recommended Videos As is typical for its launches, SpaceX will livestream the launch of the ...
NASA, SpaceX prepare to launch capsule to bring home Starliner astronauts Saturday’s scheduled launch of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will go up with two empty seats in the capsule to return astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth. ...
A launch scheduled for Wednesday of another Falcon 9, carrying a batch of 22 Starlinks from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California was called off without explanation. But the Florida moonshot brought a busy day in space to a spectacular conclusion with a picture-perfect liftoff at 1:05 a....
SpaceX put a couple pieces of special cargo on board with the astronauts for today’s launch. First, a piece of art made of gold, brass and aluminum — meant to signify how far the space program has come and how far humanity has to go in exploring the cosmos. ...
History was set to be made today as NASA andSpaceXgeared up to launch Americans into space from American soil and on American equipment for the first time in nearly a decade. The launch has been called off for the day, less than 20 minutes before scheduled liftoff from the Kennedy Space...
Watch live coverage onCBSNthis Wednesday, May 27. Launch is scheduled for 4:33 p.m. EDT. Buoyed by an improving forecast, SpaceX engineers pressed ahead Tuesday with final preparations for launch of a Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft Wednesday on thefirst piloted flight to orbit ...