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Home News Spaceflight SpaceX's Starship covered in frost during a landmark fueling test on Jan. 23, 2023. (Image credit: SpaceX) The first-ever orbital mission of SpaceX's huge new Starship vehicle will basically be a coin flip, according to company founder and CEO Elon Musk. Starship has a roughly 50% chance…

Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX’s 27th resupply mission to the International Space Station. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Launch Replay A…

SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, awaiting liftoff Tuesday from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s next resupply mission to the International Space Station is set for liftoff Tuesday night from Kennedy Space Center, hauling more than 6,300 pounds of cargo…

Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, left, NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, right, are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship Shannon shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa,…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Four space station astronauts returned to Earth late Saturday after a quick SpaceX flight home. Their capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida coast near Tampa. The U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew spent five months at the International Space Station, arriving last October. Besides…

After splashing down safely in their Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 completed the agency’s fifth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station. The international crew of four spent 157 days in orbit...Read More

SpaceX’s Dragon Endurance spacecraft flies into an orbital sunset after undocking from the International Space Station on Saturday. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now Closing out five months on the International Space Station, two NASA astronauts, a five-time Japanese space flier, and a Russian cosmonaut departed the complex Saturday inside…

Update for 3 a.m. March 11: The four Crew-5 astronauts of SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endurance are on their way back to Earth for a planned splashdown tonight at 9:02 p.m. ET (0202 GMT on March 12). You can watch their splashdown live here starting at 8 pm ET (0100 GMT).…

Live coverage of the undocking, re-entry, and splashdown of NASA’s Crew-5 mission at the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. NASA TV Coverage Read More

Home News Spaceflight A robotic SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule leaves the International Space Station on Jan. 9, 2023. (Image credit: NASA TV) SpaceX will launch its 27th contracted cargo mission to the International Space Station for NASA on March 14, if all goes according to plan. NASA and SpaceX are…