Liftoff of Falcon 9 and Dragon from Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Fl. March 1, 2013.

A SpaceX rocket equipped with the first commercially developed crew capsule began a critical test Saturday morning March 2, 2019, when it blasted off toward the International Space Station. There was no one on board but that capsule could be used to take astronauts into space late this year.

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket exploded minutes after it cleared the launch pad during a flight test Thursday. Elon Musk had said the test posed steep challenges and risks.

A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe.

SpaceX launched the European Space Agency’s Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1.5 million kilometers away, the Webb Space Telescope’s neighborhood.

On March 30, 2009, NASA unveiled the new Orion Spacecraft in front of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. The module is still undergoing tests, but is planned to make its first journey to the International Space Station in 2015.

NASA hired Boeing along with SpaceX after the space shuttles retired to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station. June5, 2024.

This time lapse footage of the earth during sunrise accross te planet was taken by the International Space Station on October 3, 2015. NASA, 2015

Watch as NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir prepare tools necessary for their spacewalk duties outside of the International Space Station on Friday, October 18, 2019.

The prospect of space travel will feel much different after the Inspiration4 mission—the first orbital mission with an all-civilian crew—launches this fall. Once that happens, the history of human spaceflight will instantly be divided into two eras. There will have been the six decades after the fir

International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy as seen from about 240 miles above the Earth's horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Today Burbank described seeing the comet two nights ago as "the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space," in an intervie...