SpaceX launched another crew of four to the International Space Station this evening (March 3). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off tonight at 10:53 PM EST (0353 GMT on March 4) carrying the four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-8 mission from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida . The … Read more
A potentially historic private moon mission is underway. Odysseus, a robotic lunar lander built by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines, lifted off early this morning (Feb. 15) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. If all goes according to plan, Odysseus will land near the moon’s south pole on … Read more
To light up the deep night sky, a Falcon 9 rocket thundered away from Florida early Thursday, boosting a commercially built robotic lander on a flight to the moon. If successful, it will be the first American spacecraft to reach the moon’s surface in more than fifty years. It was SpaceX’s second flight in less … Read more
SpaceX readied a Falcon 9 rocket for launch early Wednesday to send a commercially built robotic lander to the moon, the first targeted landing near the moon’s south pole where NASA’s Artemis astronauts plan to orbit in a few years . The flight comes just five weeks after another American company’s attempt to land a … Read more