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SpaceX places the Starship Flight 8 Super Heavy booster atop the orbital launch mount at its Starbase site ahead of a planned Feb. 28, 2025 liftoff. The company posted this photo on X on Feb. 25.

SpaceX rolls huge Super Heavy booster to pad ahead of Starship Flight 8 launch (photos)

By Mike Wall published

The Super Heavy booster that will fly on the eighth test mission of SpaceX's Starship megarocket is now on the launch pad. Liftoff is scheduled for Friday (Feb. 28).

Private Spaceflight
streaks of fire in the evening sky

Explosion of Starship Flight 7 traced to fires in rocket's 'attic,' SpaceX says

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX has finished its investigation into what went wrong on the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket, which ended with a dramatic explosion.

Private Spaceflight
The world's largest rocket launches into a blue sky on SpaceX's Flight 7.

SpaceX targeting Feb. 28 for next launch of Starship megarocket

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX plans to launch the eighth test flight of its Starship megarocket on Friday (Feb. 28), company founder and CEO Elon Musk says.

Private Spaceflight
The International Space Station, photographed by Expedition 56 crew members in 2018 from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking.

The ISS should be deorbited 'as soon as possible,' Elon Musk says: 'Let's go to Mars'

By Mike Wall published

The International Space Station "has served its purpose" and should be deorbited "as soon as possible," SpaceX chief and close Trump adviser Elon Musk said today (Feb. 20).

International Space Station
A pale man wearing a blue suit and red had with orange face paint purses his lips toward another, taller pale man, pursing his lips in the direction of the first man, wearing all black. A blurry man behind them awaits the inevitable.

Musk and Trump repeat false 'stranded' Starliner astronauts narrative, but they are not stranded

By Josh Dinner last updated

Elon Musk and President Trump continue to advance the narrative that NASA astronauts from Boeing's Starliner mission were "abandoned" in space.

Human Spaceflight
An artist's impression of astronauts working on the surface of the moon.

Moon or Mars? Why not both, acting NASA head Janet Petro says

By Mike Wall published

NASA still views the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, even though Elon Musk has dismissed Earth's nearest neighbor as "a distraction."

The moon
two white spacecraft are seen docked at different orientations on a space station, floating above Earth.

NASA moves up return date for Boeing Starliner astronauts after swapping SpaceX Dragon spacecraft

By Josh Dinner published

NASA will return Starliner astronauts to Earth early along with their Crew-9 companions, after deciding to swap Crew-10 spacecraft to launch the SpaceX mission sooner.

Space Exploration
a white nasa flag waves in front of a rainbow pride flag

NASA allegedly orders employees to purge workspaces of LGBTQI+ symbols: Report

By Josh Dinner published

Employees at NASA's Washington D.C. headquarters have reportedly been barred from displaying Pride symbols in their personal work areas.

Space Exploration
A woman with light hair is wearing a red shirt, blue hat and sunglasses, facing right, speaking into a microphone.

Who is Janet Petro, Trump's pick for acting NASA administrator?

By Andrew Jones published

Janet Petro became the first woman to lead NASA on Jan. 20. Here's what we know about U.S. President Donald Trump's pick for head of the space agency.

Missions
The first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket heads back to Earth for a landing on Feb. 4, 2025 (left), while the upper stage (right) carries Maxar Technologies' WorldView Legion 5 and 6 satellites to orbit.

SpaceX launches 2 Maxar Earth-observing satellites to orbit (video, photos)

By Mike Wall last updated

SpaceX launched two Earth-imaging satellites today (Feb. 4), further building out Maxar Technologies' sharp-eyed WorldView Legion constellation.

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