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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft launches from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The Crew-1 mission is sending a crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station. Paul Hennessy | LightRocket | Getty Images CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket crackled…

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Home News Spaceflight CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched its first operational space taxi flight for NASA Sunday (Nov. 15), as a shiny white Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies above Kennedy Space Center here in Florida. The rocket lifted off from NASA's historic Pad 39 here at 7:27…

Updated Nov. 16 with post-launch press conference details. WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four American and Japanese astronauts is on its way to the International Space Station after a successful Falcon 9 launch Nov. 15. The Falcon 9 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex…

Sign up for FREE now and never miss the top politics stories again. Invalid emailWe will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights.SpaceX launched the flight to the International Space Station on Sunday. It is NASA’s…

On Sunday, four astronauts lift off for NASA’s first fully operational mission with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi will be at the International Space Station for six months.Nov. 15, 2020Read More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday on the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA by a private company. The Falcon rocket thundered into the night from Kennedy Space Center with three Americans and one Japanese, the second crew to be…

SpaceX, the rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, was due on Sunday to launch four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station, NASA’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft.The company’s newly designed Crew Dragon capsule, which the crew has dubbed…

Four astronauts have begun their journey to the International Space Station (ISS) after a historic SpaceX launch.It is NASA's first fully-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit on board a privately-owned spacecraft and the second time that SpaceX's Dragon capsule has taken astronauts to the space station, after a test…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX aimed for a Sunday night launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station, although the prospects of good weather were just 50-50 and its leader was sidelined by COVID-19. Vice President Mike Pence was expected at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the long-awaited…