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Scott PowersDecember 14, 2017

After years of soft scheduling that has kept pushing its debut out into the future, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful rocket, is being prepared for its maiden launch from Kennedy Space Center in January. The Falcon Heavy, essentially three Falcon 9 rocket boosters together, is designed to be the most powerful rocket the […]

Associated PressAugust 31, 2017

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

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

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 […]

Scott PowersMarch 29, 2017

SpaceX is set to launch a recycled Falcon 9 rocket Thursday afternoon, marking the first time a rocket used once to put a spacecraft into orbit has been landed, refurbished and put on the launch pad to be used again. SpaceX’s first customer for such a rocket, the Luxembourg-based SES satellite company, prefers the term […]

Scott PowersMarch 29, 2017

Blue Origin rocket company founder Jeff Bezos is never one to let his arch-rival Elon Musk entirely dominate headlines, so as Musk’s SpaceX prepares the first-ever launch into space of a used Falcon 9 rocket Thursday, Bezos must have figured it’s time to offer a sneak-peak at his company’s planned crew capsule. Leather seats. Giant […]

Scott PowersMarch 1, 2017

Bigelow Aerospace founder Robert Bigelow believes existing technology, NASA interest, and business opportunities are ready now for a return to the moon — and his company is ready to provide a space station there. In an exclusive interview with FloridaPolitics.com Wednesday, the Las Vegas-based billionaire space entrepreneur made the argument that there already exists the technology, the […]

Scott PowersFebruary 27, 2017

SpaceX announced Monday the company has plans to send two private citizen astronauts on a trip around the moon in late 2018. SpaceX still is trying to get its program together to fly NASA astronauts to the International Space Station in a multi-billion contract with the nation’s space agency. And the company said in a […]

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 PowersFebruary 18, 2017

SpaceX scrubbed its debut launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A Saturday morning because of uncertainty regarding readings from the second-stage thruster control system. The company was saying little else Saturday. The issue was noted about an hour before launch but the countdown was allowed to proceed to […]

Tag: SpaceX

SpaceX finally sets maiden launch of Falcon Heavy: January

Private companies drive ‘new space race’ at NASA center

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch set for Thursday evening

SpaceX launches used rocket from Kennedy Space Center

SpaceX used – er, ‘flight-tested’ – rocket set to launch

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Robert Bigelow: ‘We stand ready’ to send station to the moon

SpaceX announces it will fly private astronauts around the moon soon

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

SpaceX scrubs Saturday launch, retry Sunday