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For its Moon lander bid, SpaceX put forward its reuseable Starship spacecraft NASA has selected SpaceX to land the first astronauts on the surface of the Moon since 1972, the agency said Friday, in a huge victory for Elon Musk's company. The contract, worth $2.9 billion, involves the prototype Starship…

SpaceX Crew 2 member Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide waves after a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 16, 2021 as he prepares for a mission to the International Space Station. The launch is targeted for April 22. (AP Photo/John Raoux)…

by Jeff Foust — April 15, 2021 SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said April 14 that she expects the company’s Starship vehicle to be carrying “large numbers of people” to space, including to the moon, within five years. Credit: SpaceNews/Brian Berger WASHINGTON — SpaceX has added more than $300 million to…

How does an astronaut prepare physically and mentally to launch into space? NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, who traveled to the International Space Station in April 2021 as part of the SpaceX Crew-2 mission, shares stellar life lessons on how to cultivate the resolve to do incredible things through preparation --…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates’ space center announced Wednesday a more ambitious timeline for sending its first rover to the moon. The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center said it is partnering with Japan’s ispace company to send a rover to the moon on an unmanned…

SpaceX filed with the FAA to build a 469 ft tall steel launch tower for its Starship rocket in Texas and it will catch the super-heavy booster when landing. SpaceX is proposing to build a 469 ft tall steel launch tower for its Starship rocket in Texas, which will also…

A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 12:34 p.m. EDT (1634 GMT) Wednesday from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: SpaceXA Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Wednesday with another batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites, achieving success on SpaceX’s 100th mission to launch from…

Home News Spaceflight Update for 1:50 pm ET: SpaceX has successfully launched 60 new Starlink satellites into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket, which made a seventh landing during the mission. Read our full story and see landing videos here. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX will launch a new fleet…

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The Falcon 9 rocket that blasted SpaceX’s first-ever astronauts into space in May 2019 is about to lift off the launch pad again. This time, however, the rocket will be carrying not humans but 60 Starlink internet satellites for deployment in low-Earth orbit. The launch will take place at Cape…