A Houston-based company completed the United States’ first successful lunar landing in more than 50 years, after a dramatic touchdown on Thursday night.
NASA launched a new climate observation satellite, packed with cutting-edge technology to gather information on Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, on a SpaceX launch system in early Thursday morning. The Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite took off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 system from Cape Canaveral, Fla., just after 1:30 a.m. Thursday. NASA said…