Associated PressApril 23, 2021
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Spectacular launch lights up Florida's pre-dawn sky.
Tag: Falcon 9A doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman on Aug. 7, 2018, at a hospital in Chicago. Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The cases are detailed in federal documents obtained by The Associated Press and raise serious questions about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S. Image via AP/Teresa Crawford.
Associated PressApril 23, 2021
Renzo DowneyMay 30, 2020
4min427
First lower earth orbit, then the Moon, then Mars.
Scott PowersMay 27, 2020
Scott PowersMay 27, 2020
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Astronauts to be launched at 4:33 p.m. from Kennedy Space Center, ending 9 year wait.
Scott PowersMay 26, 2020
6min304
NASA, SpaceX and frustrated Americans are hoping for good weather.
Associated PressMay 1, 2020
4min310
NASA's advice for first human launch from Florida since 2011: Watch TV.
Scott PowersFebruary 28, 2019
5min552
'I guarantee everything will not work exactly right. And that's exactly what we want.'
Associated PressAugust 31, 2017
4min330
For the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011, NASA says it may soon have the capability to send astronauts to the International Space Station from U.S. soil. Critical milestones are on the horizon for Boeing and SpaceX, the space agency’s commercial crew partners: Flight tests of their spacecraft, including crewed […]
Scott PowersMay 29, 2017
1min227
The next SpaceX launch, of a Falcon 9 rocket to send cargo to the International Space Station, has been set for a 5:55 p.m. launch on Thursday from Kennedy Space Center. The mission would be SpaceX’s 11th commercial resupply effort to the space station. The Dragon spacecraft will be carrying almost 6,000 pounds of science […]
Scott PowersMarch 30, 2017
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In an effort that could greatly reduce the cost and turnaround time of launching rockets, SpaceX successfully launched a used rocket Thursday evening from Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9 rocket – with a previously launched, recovered, and refurbished first stage – blasted off from Launch Complex 39A at 6:27 p.m., and successfully lifted the […]