WATCH: SpaceX launches rocket with cargo of Christmas presents, supplies to station
SpaceX launched Christmas gifts, goodies and supplies to the International Space Station on Tuesday and got a present in return: the company’s 100th successful rocket landing.
SpaceX crew launch marks the 600th person in space in 60 years
SpaceX has launched four astronauts to the International Space Station. The flight comes just two days after SpaceX brought four other astronauts home, and lifts the number of people who have reached space past the 600 mark.
With ailing astronauts recovered, SpaceX aims for night crew launch
SpaceX is counting down toward a nighttime launch of four astronauts for NASA. The Falcon rocket is scheduled to blast off Wednesday night from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
SpaceX returns four astronauts to Earth, ending 200-day flight
Four astronauts are back on Earth after a 200-day space station mission. They rode home Monday in a SpaceX capsule, parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Florida, in darkness.
SpaceX has bumped its next astronaut flight for NASA until Wednesday because of rough wind and waves hundreds of miles away.
SpaceX safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot.
NASA and SpaceX are promising more Coast Guard patrols and fewer pleasure boaters for this week's splashdown by four astronauts.
The astronauts from the U.S., Japan and France should reach the International Space Station early Saturday morning, following a 23-hour ride in the same Dragon capsule used by SpaceX’s debut crew last May.
President Joe Biden has chosen a former senator from Florida who flew on the space shuttle to lead NASA.
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