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Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2017

Kennedy Space Center is back in the rocket-launching business – and this time it’s really a business. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off into space from historic Launch Complex 39A Sunday morning, the first launch from Kennedy since the space shuttle program ended in 2011. This was a business launch in almost every sense, except […]

Scott PowersJanuary 3, 2017

NASA has extended additional flight contracts to the two private companies hired to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station and reported that the first such flight now is expected no earlier than May, 2018. In an announcement made Tuesday, NASA reported that Boeing and SpaceX now each will be hired to run […]

Scott PowersApril 8, 2016

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted through a picture-perfect spring Florida sky Friday afternoon and then landed softly and surely on a barge in the ocean 11 minutes later. The successful at-sea landing for the rocket’s first stage is a first, and it comes in SpaceX’s fifth try, bringing screaming cheers from the company’s California […]

Scott PowersApril 7, 2016

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launch planned for Friday afternoon is aimed at the International Space Station, but much of the science and technology inside its Dragon capsule is aimed at taking humans far deeper into space one day The launch is scheduled for 4:43 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The mission is to […]

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Kennedy Space Center back in launch business — this time for business

NASA hires SpaceX, Boeing for more astronaut flights, pushes first to May 2018

5th time’s the charm! SpaceX lands rocket on ocean barge

SpaceX launch to provide space station with long-term spaceflight survival research