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SpaceX is racking up the frequent flyer miles having already sent up five Falcon 9 rockets in 2022. It’s aiming for No. 6 today from Kennedy Space Center.

NASA announced today it has pushed a planned mid-February rollout of the Artemis I rocket to the launch pad to no earlier than March, meaning a potential launch won’t happen until at least April.

SpaceX pushed a planned Starlink launch from Kennedy Space Center to Wednesday, the same day it plans a California launch while new rocket company Astra Space may finally get its first launch from the Space Coast this weekend.

He told his family and a few friends. He dropped hints to a couple of colleagues. So hardly anyone knew that the airline pilot could have — should have — been on board when SpaceX launched its first tourists into orbit last year.

NASA’s most tragic events happened 55 years ago, 36 years ago and 19 years ago with the deaths of 17 men and women in the Apollo 1 fire, Space Shuttle Challenger explosion on liftoff and Space Shuttle Columbia destruction on re-entry.

A company will send the ashes of more than 150 people including “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry and actor James Doohan who played “Scotty” on the TV series and movies on the first launch of the new United Launch Alliance rocket Vulcan Centaur when it takes off from Cape Canaveral later this year.

The European Space Agency has narrowed the candidate list for its next generation of astronauts, including dozens who have a physical disability.

Rocket company Astra Space completed a test fire Saturday ahead of its first planned launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Buzz Aldrin has made it around the sun 92 times, one year shy of the number of minutes he spent walking on the moon.

NASA has switched out the pesky parts and is gearing up to send the 322-foot-tall Artemis I rocket to Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B for a dress rehearsal next month that would allow for a potential moon launch as early as March.