NASA has announced that it has awarded SpaceX, based in Starbase, Texas, a modification to its NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract, adding Starship to its existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch service offerings. The NLS II contracts provide a broad range of commercial launch services for NASA’s planetary, Earth-observing, exploration, and scientific satellites, … Read more
The collaboration between SpaceX and NASA has been a topic of much discussion, especially due to their successful and dependable launches. These missions, explained simply below, highlight how SpaceX has transformed space exploration while working closely with NASA. Demo-2 On May 30, 2020, SpaceX made history by launching NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken … Read more
Although NASA has announced an exciting opportunity for U.S. media, the accreditation process has begun to cover the pre-launch and launch activities of SpaceX’s 32nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station (ISS). This mission is a crucial part of delivering NASA’s scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the space station. NASA and … Read more
NASA has announced that after spending months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts have returned to Earth and are ready to share their remarkable journey. On March 31, 2025, at 2:30 p.m. EDT, astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore will participate in a postflight news conference from NASA’s … Read more
SpaceX has announced that it is preparing to launch the NROL-69 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) using a Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, March 24, 2025, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with liftoff scheduled for 1:48 p.m. ET (17:48 UTC). Targeting Monday, March 24 … Read more
SpaceX successfully launched the NROL-57 mission using its Falcon 9 rocket. The launch occurred on Thursday, March 20, at 11:49 p.m. Pacific Time (PT), which corresponds to Friday, March 21, at 12:19 a.m. IST, from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base. This mission was carried out for the United States’ … Read more
SpaceX successfully launched the NROL-57 mission using its Falcon 9 rocket. The launch took place on Thursday, March 20, 2025, at 11:49 p.m. Pacific Time (PT) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Targeting Thursday, March 20 for a Falcon 9 launch of the @NatReconOfc’s NROL-57 mission from … Read more
The Crew-9 mission, a collaboration between NASA and SpaceX, launched on September 28, 2024, at 1:17 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida, using a Falcon 9 rocket to send the Dragon spacecraft Freedom to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew included NASA astronauts Nick Hague (commander), Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and … Read more
On Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at 1:05 a.m. ET, SpaceX and NASA planned the autonomous undocking of the Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS), carrying Crew-9 members NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. Watch Dragon depart the @Space_Station and return to Earth with the … Read more