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File photo of a stack of 53 Starlink satellites in a parking orbit during a previous Falcon 9 launch.Credit: SpaceX While SpaceX’s next crew mission awaits a launch opportunity just up the coast, another Falcon 9 rocket is poised for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Thursday with another cluster of 53…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated with new Ax-1 undocking and Crew-4 launch dates. Astronauts Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristoforetti inside the Crew Access Arm at Launch Complex 39A early Wednesday for a dress rehearsal. Credit: SpaceX The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the next crew to…

The 11-person crew currently on-board the International Space Station, including the Ax-1 commercial astronauts wearing blue flight suits. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now The four-man crew flying on Axiom’s first private mission to the International Space Station is getting some extra time on the orbiting complex this week. Managers…

SpaceX rolls a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon crew spacecraft out of the hangar at pad 39A Tuesday morning. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky SpaceX rolled a reused Falcon 9 booster and a brand new Dragon crew capsule to their launch pad for final tests Tuesday at the Kennedy Space Center in…

This story originally appeared on Business Insider Elon Musk said that a $100,000 hypothetical price point for a ticket on his shuttles to Mars should be affordable for most people. Musk's company SpaceX plans to build a self-sustaining city on the red planet in the coming decades. In a conversation…

What's on Elon Musk's mind? In conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Musk details how the radical new innovations he's working on -- Tesla's intelligent humanoid robot Optimus, SpaceX's otherworldly Starship and Neuralink's brain-machine interfaces, among others -- could help maximize the lifespan of humanity and create a world…

A classified satellite from the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office was successfully launched into space with a reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday morning, officials confirmed. The NROL-85 satellite blasted off at 6:13 a.m. local time from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Sunday’s launch was the first time the…

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by Sandra Erwin — April 17, 2022 A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying NROL-85 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 9:13 a.m. Eastern. Credit: SpaceX webcast NROL-85 was the 148th launch of the Falcon 9 and the rocket’s 14th mission of 2022 WASHINGTON…

By NASA April 17, 2022 The SpaceX Crew-4 Dragon arrives at Launch Pad 39A hangar. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s brand-new Dragon spacecraft – named “Freedom” by the Crew-4 astronauts – arrived at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on April 16, 2022, after making the journey from SpaceX’s processing facility at…