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SpaceX Dragon crew blasts off for International Space Station

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SpaceX Dragon crew blasts off for International Space Station

[ad_1] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on Thursday to the International Space Station carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and the second Emirati to voyage to space. The SpaceX Dragon Crew-6 mission launched at 12:34 am (0534 GMT) Thursday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a livestream of the launch showed. The launch had been scrubbed on Monday just minutes before liftoff because of a clog in a filter that supplies ignition fluid to start the rocket engines. "Congratulations to the NASA and SpaceX teams for another history-making mission to the International Space Station!" NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement. The Dragon crew capsule, dubbed Endeavour, is scheduled to dock with the ISS at 1:17 am (0617 GMT) on F...

SpaceX postpones mission to put Japanese lander on Moon

[ad_1] SpaceX on Wednesday postponed by one day a mission to launch the first private and Japanese lander to the Moon. SpaceX on Wednesday postponed by one day a mission to launch the first private -- and Japanese -- lander to the Moon. A Falcon 9 rocket is now scheduled to blast off at 3:37 am (0837 GMT) Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX said on Twitter that the delay was to carry out more pre-flight checks. Until now, only the United States, Russia and China have managed to put a robot on the lunar surface. The mission, by Japanese company ispace, is the first of a program called Hakuto-R. The lander would touch down around April 2023 on the visible side of the Moon, in the Atlas crater, according to a company statement. Measuring just over 2 by 2.5 meters, it c...

SpaceX Set to Launch Falcon Heavy on Classified US Space Force Mission

[ad_1] The big rocket is back after a 40-month hiatus but with far fewer customers than the popular Falcon 9. SpaceX is set to launch its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida on a classified mission for the US Space Force, marking the return of the rocket after a more than 3-year hiatus. The launch is scheduled for as early as 9:41 am local time on Tuesday. The flight will be just the fourth launch of the Falcon Heavy since its debut in February 2018, a relatively infrequent launch cadence for a vehicle that has been hailed as the most powerful rocket now in operation. When Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., first announced plans to create the rocket in 2011, it was touted as a new and powerful option for customers in need of launching ...