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In 2020, President Trump cheered Elon Musk for his company's first flight of astronauts to the ISS. Getty Images SpaceX has been caught in the crossfire of the ongoing feud between Donald Trump and company founder Elon Musk. The two men have been sharing barbs over the President’s proposed budget…

Editor’s note: This advisory was updated June 9, 2025, to reflect new target launch and docking dates. NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 8 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 11, for launch of the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 4.…

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A Falcon 9 rocket liftoff off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on June 4, 2025, carrying 27 Starlink satellites. It was the 500th orbital launch of a rocket in SpaceX’s Falcon family. Image: SpaceX. Update June 4, 8:00 p.m. EDT: SpaceX landed on the droneship. SpaceX was back…

SpaceX's Starship megarocket soars above Earth on its ninth test flight, on May 27, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX's Starship megarocket tends to put on a show, and its latest test flight was no exception. That mission, the ninth ever for the roughly 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship, lifted off from…

Photo: Michael Gonzalez (Getty Images) Elon Musk seems to think the sky isn’t SpaceX’s limit — and maybe not even its revenue ceiling. The CEO said on Tuesday that his company is on track to generate $15.5 billion in revenue in 2025, a leap from last year’s estimated $11-13 billion.…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, like the one pictured here, launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Tuesday morning. File Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo June 3 (UPI) -- SpaceX early Tuesday launched a Falcon 9 rocket loaded with a batch of Starlink satellites into space…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 12-19 mission on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update June 3, 3:12 p.m. EDT: The first stage booster successfully landed on the droneship. SpaceX…

Elon Musk’s interview with CBS Sunday Morning seemed to get off to an awkward start, as reporter David Pogue asked the SpaceX CEO about his thoughts on his ally Donald Trump’s policies, including growing restrictions on international students. “I think we want to stick to the subject of the day,…

President Donald Trump will announce a new nominee for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) administrator after rescinding his nomination of Jared Isaacman just days before the Senate was set to vote on him. In an emailed statement, White House assistant press secretary Liz Houston told Newsweek on Saturday: "The…