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The four commercial crew astronauts representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission are pictured in their Dragon spacesuits for a fit check aboard the International Space Station's Harmony module on 21 April, 2022.

SpaceX capsule splashes down, bringing 4 astronauts home from 6-month mission

The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying three U.S. NASA astronauts and a European Space Agency (ESA) crewmate from Germany parachuted into calm seas in darkness at the conclusion of a 23-hour-plus ...

Axiom's four-man team lifts off, riding atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, in the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US 8 April, 2022

First private mission launches for International Space Station

The first fully private mission to the International Space Station blasted off from Florida Friday with a four-member crew from startup company Axiom Space

A bird takes flight as a SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.) Falcon 9 rocket with the NROL-87 spy satellite payload for the National Reconnaissance Office launches from the SLC-4E launch pad at Vandenberg US Space Force Base on 2 February 2022 in Lompoc, California

SpaceX rocket successfully launches US spy satellite

A US intelligence agency has said that its newest spy satellite successfully launched into orbit atop a reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

This NASA handout file photo taken on 11 February 2015 shows NOAA's DSCOVR satellite launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. A chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission will crash into the Moon in March, experts say

NASA hopes to make observations from space junk collision with Moon

The rocket was deployed in 2015 to put a NASA satellite into orbit and its second stage, or booster, has been floating in the cosmos ever since

Chinese and US flags are set up at China's Ministry of Transport in Beijing, China on 27 April

China slams US after space station ‘close encounters’ with Musk’s satellites

Tiangong, China’s new space station, had to manoeuvre to avoid colliding with one Starlink satellite in July and with another in October, according to a note submitted by Beijing to the United ...

Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk pauses during a news conference in Tokyo on 8 September 2014

Elon Musk named Time magazine person of the year

Time magazine on Monday named Tesla chief and space entrepreneur Elon Musk as its person of the year 2021, citing his embodiment of the technological shifts but also troubling trends reshaping ...

The launch of IXPE onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9

NASA launches new mission to explore universe’s most dramatic objects

The new mission builds on and complements the scientific discoveries of other telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA’s flagship X-ray telescope. First light operations are ...

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NASA splits human spaceflight unit in two, reflecting new orbital economy

The reorganisation announced by NASA chief Bill Nelson on Tuesday, reflects an evolving relationship between private companies, such as SpaceX, that have increasingly commercialised rocket travel and ...

The astronauts including the crew's billionaire benefactor and ‘mission commander’ Jared Isaacman, 38, stepped onto the deck of the recovery ship and cheered

SpaceX capsule with world's first all-civilian orbital crew returns safely

The three-day mission ended as the SpaceX crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience, parachuted into calm seas around 7:00 pm EDT (2300 GMT), shortly before sunset, following an automated reentry ...

Workers pressure wash the logo of NASA on the Vehicle Assembly Building before SpaceX will send two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station aboard its Falcon 9 rocket, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US on 19 May 2020.

NASA halts SpaceX work on lunar lander after Blue Origin suit

NASA agreed on Thursday to temporarily halt work on a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract awarded to Elon Musk's SpaceX after rival billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin sued the US ...

This handout photograph taken and released by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos on 29 July 2021, shows the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module "Nauka" (Science) docking to the International Space Station (ISS).

Russia's Nauka science module docks with ISS

Russia said it successfully docked the Nauka laboratory module with the International Space Station on Thursday

NASA-SpaceX Dragon launches 7,300 pounds of cargo to space station

NASA-SpaceX Dragon launches 7,300lb of cargo to space station

NASA has launched SpaceX's Dragon resupply spacecraft with more than 7,300 pounds of science experiments, new solar arrays, and other cargo to the International Space Station

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station on 15 November at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida

SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites in record 10th liftoff

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday launched 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit early and then stuck a landing at sea to cap a record 10th flight for the company’s reusable booster

This screen grab taken from the NASA live feed shows crew members of the International Space Station welcoming crew members of the SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft after docking an opening hatches, on 24 April 2021

Recycled SpaceX Crew Dragon brings new crew to ISS

The spacecraft named Endeavour, piloting herself autonomously, locked on to a docking port at 5:08am Eastern time (0908 GMT), some 260 miles (420 kilometers) above the south Indian Ocean

This screen grab taken from the NASA live feed shows the SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft at 20 meters of the docking access of the International Space Station on 24 April

Astronauts aboard SpaceX capsule prepare for docking at ISS

A recycled SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with four astronauts aboard was speeding on its way to the International Space Station, where the spacecraft is set to dock early Saturday

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