were in SpaceX’s Dragon capsule as the company’s Falcon 9 rocket took them to the first-ever polar orbit by humans. The 4.5-hour launch window opened at 9:46 p.m. ET and it took off from ...

SpaceX kicked off 2025 by continuing its record-breaking pace of Falcon 9 launches while also setting new firsts with its ...

Blue Origin launched a high profile all-women crew on its flagship space tourism rocket. The crew includes pop star Katy ...

Learn how Metis' majority veteran team supports safety at Cape Canaveral through a more than $50 million government contract.

The first four humans to orbit Earth’s poles are sharing their experiences from their historic mission. In a discussion with ...

For Fram2, SpaceX also recycled the Dragon cupola, which had debuted on SpaceX’s first private astronaut mission, Inspiration 4, also chartered by Isaacman. The Fram2 astronauts did not open ...

Lightning flashed in the distance as a SpaceX Falcon ... carrying a Dragon spacecraft with four astronauts on a journey no other space traveler has taken − an orbit around Earth's poles.

Lightning flashed in the distance as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, carrying a Dragon ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday, splashing ...

Four private spacefarers on a mission known as Fram2 set out to become the first humans to fly in orbit over both Earth's ...