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SpaceX plans to launch its Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Sunday.

NASA and SpaceX will try again on Saturday to send the next crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station.NASA pays SpaceX for the taxi service as part of a commercial crew program that it put in place to reduce dependency on Russian rockets for astronaut transport after the space shuttle program ended in 2011.

An alternative launch site for SpaceXs Starship resides in Cape Canaveral, where the important Launch Complex 39A may be at risk.

NASA wants Elon Musk's SpaceX to ensure its plan to launch its next-generation Starship rocket from Florida would not put at risk nearby launch infrastructure critical to the International Space Station, a senior space agency official told Reuters. The new hurdle further complicates and could potentially delay the launch plan for the rocket, which faces an already protracted regulatory review of its primary launch site in Texas. Musk wants to show customers that Starship, which he sees as...

SpaceX has achieved its first flight of 2022, with the launch of 49 Starlink v1.5 satellites from the Kennedy Space Center LC-39A.

Skip to main content Currently Reading Those eerie lights in the Bay Areas night sky are back. But theres a non-spooky reason why. FacebookTwitterEmail A mysterious string of lights appeared Thursday in the predawn sky over the greater Bay Area. Twitter user @JustTeresa02 captured a photo.Twitter: @JustTeresa02 Fear not, locals. The Bay Area isnt experiencing a close encounter of the third kind. If youve looked up at the night or dawn sky lately and spotted a neat line of bright lights, those a...

NASA Lunar Gateway Project Explained The NASA Lunar Gateway project can be understood as an established infrastructure on the Moon for sustained lunar exploration and development. The project involves an orbiting habitat, allowing astronauts to take regular trips to the Moon - just like their trips to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA announced that it had selected the Falcon Heavy rocket to launch the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO)....