Apr 10 SpaceX pulls off first successful mid-ocean rocket landing By Daniel Costa-Roberts Four failed attempts and years of effort paid off Friday, as the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster re-entered Earth's atmosphere and lowered itself vertically onto a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean -- the company's first successful landing at sea. Continue reading
Dec 22 Watch 4:42 What a reusable rocket means for the future of spaceflight By PBS News Hour A SpaceX rocket made a historic landing Monday night. After taking off from Cape Canaveral, the rocket booster landed gently back on Earth, suggesting a possible future for reusable rockets. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the… Continue watching
Dec 22 What made this week’s SpaceX rocket landing historic By Nsikan Akpan SpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket booster late Monday. Here's why should you care. Continue reading
Jun 28 SpaceX rocket carrying supplies explodes, classified ‘mishap’ by FAA By Carey Reed The Falcon 9 rocket was on its seventh mission to deliver more than 4,000 pounds of supplies and materials to the crew at the International Space Station, when it experienced a "pressurization event" in the second stage of flight. Continue reading
Jan 16 SpaceX releases video of rocket’s spectacular crash landing By Margaret Myers On Monday, we told you about SpaceX’s failed attempted to recover and reuse Falcon 9, the 14-story rocket that launches supply capsules into space. This was the rocket that helped deliver the company’s fifth resupply mission to the International Space… Continue reading
Jan 06 SpaceX delays rocket launch until Friday By News Desk Private spaceflight agency SpaceX scrubbed its launch early Tuesday morning of a rocket intended to supply the International Space Station, because of a technical glitch with the booster’s upper-stage motor, NASA reported. Continue reading
Sep 18 Dustbusters, pacemakers and seven other inventions NASA science made possible By Laura Santhanam NASA announced this week that the agency would partner with the private sector to send astronauts to the International Space Station. The space agency awarded contracts to aerospace companies, Boeing and SpaceX. Together, they will send commercial crews into… Continue reading
May 22 Watch SpaceX Blasts Into ‘Uncharted Territory,’ Hoping to Make Space Cheaper SpaceX Blasts Into 'Uncharted Territory,' Hoping to Make Space Cheaper… Continue watching
May 15 Watch SpaceX Readies for Launch; Dragon Capsule Seat Showdown Miles O'Brien behind-the-scenes on the SpaceX Dragon capsule launch. Continue watching
May 03 Watch SpaceX Boldly Looks to Blast ‘Millions of People to Mars’ With the space shuttle era now over and U.S. space flight on the verge of going private for the near future, the company behind the so-called SpaceX project has ambitious plans to make space flight cheaper for cargo and for… Continue watching