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Home News Spaceflight A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket test fires its nine first-stage engines atop Launch Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 17, 2021. The rocket will launch NASA's Crew-2 astronaut mission for NASA on April 22. (Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky) CAPE CANAVERAL,…

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth early Saturday, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan amid preparations in Florida for launch of another…

Illustration of SpaceX Starship human lander design that will carry the first NASA astronauts to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program. Credit: SpaceX NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and the agency has selected…

by Jason Rainbow — April 16, 2021 SpaceX's Starship will benefit from the more than $1 billion it has already raised this year. This SN10 prototype rose roughly 10 kilometers into the sky March 3, before making a successful controlled landing. About eight minutes later, the vehicle exploded. Credit: SpaceX…

Starship Landing System — "We looked at what’s the best value to the government." Eric Berger - Apr 16, 2021 9:35 pm UTC Enlarge / Rendering of SpaceX's Starship vehicle on the surface of the Moon. NASA In an extraordinary announcement on Friday, NASA said that it has selected SpaceX…

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…