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  • SpaceXTech

    Elon Musk watches SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship take-off, explode in self-destruct mode 8 minutes later

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • A Student wearing solar eclipse glasses watching the hybrid partial solar eclipse in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, April 20, 2023. (Photo by: Dimas Rachmatsyah/INA Photo Agency/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Lifestyle

    How to see the ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse on Saturday that will put on a dazzling display across parts of the U.S.

    By Marcia Dunn and Bloomberg
  • Virgin GalacticLifestyle

    Space tourists who paid $450,000 apiece are blasting off with Virgin Galactic, joined by an ex-Olympian with an 18-year-old ticket and sweepstakes winners

    By Susan Montoya Bryan, Marcia Dunn, and others
  • The crew of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft, from left, Saudi Arabian astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi, commandeer Peggy Whitson, pilot John Shoffner and Saudi Arabian astronaut Ali al-Qarni arrive at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., before their launch to the International Space Station, Sunday, May 21, 2023. (AP Photo/John Raoux)Tech

    SpaceX just sent 2 Saudi astronauts—including the country’s first woman in space—to the ISS

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • SpaceX’s Starship launches from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, April 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Tech

    A SpaceX rocket just exploded minutes after it launched as a crowd of people watched

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • SpaceX rocketTech

    Elon Musk says he ‘learned a lot today’ after cancelling SpaceX’s giant rocket launch at last minute

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • This undated photo provided by SpaceX shows the company’s Starship rocket at the launch site in Boca Chica, Texas. (SpaceX via AP)Tech

    Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to launch the biggest, mightiest rocket ever built: ‘It won’t be boring’

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • This combination of photos shows, from left, astronauts Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman. On Monday, April 3, 2023, NASA announced the three Americans and one Canadian as the crew who will be the first to fly the Orion capsule, launching atop a Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy Space Center no earlier than late 2024. (NASA, CSA via AP)Tech

    NASA just named its first moon crew in 50 years: ‘This is humanity’s crew’

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • Spectators at Jetty Park in Cape Canaveral, Fla., watch as Terran I, a 3D-printed rocket by Relativity Space, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station late Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)Tech

    3D-printed rocket succeeds in launch debut—but doesn’t make it into orbit

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • SpaceX launchTech

    Elon Musk’s SpaceX blasts 4 astronauts to the International Space Station

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft Endeavour sits poised on Launch Pad 39ATech

    SpaceX rocket launch called off with just two minutes remaining until liftoff

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • Maria Valdes, a postdoctoral researcher studying meteorites, holds pieces of a meteorite identified as coming from the asteroid Vesta on June 30, 2021, at Chicago's Field Museum. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)Environment

    A truck-sized asteroid will make one of the closest encounters ever with Earth on Thursday night

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • This image provided by NASA shows the Orion spacecraft approaching Earth on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, as it neared the end of its three-week test flight to the moon. (NASA via AP)Tech

    NASA’s Orion makes splashdown after a $4 billion trip to the moon that points to an eventual lunar base

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/John Raoux)Tech

    Reaching the moon usually takes days. Here’s why a Tokyo startup is giving its lander months instead after today’s SpaceX launch

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • NASA's Orion spacecraft approaching the moonTech

    A NASA capsule with dummy astronauts on board just made the first moon visit in 50 years

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press