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SpaceX's first Crew Dragon launches March 2!

The billionaire entrepreneur sees a bright and busy future for SpaceX's newly debuted Crew Dragon capsule.

SpaceX's new Crew Dragon astronaut capsule was on its way to the International Space Station Saturday after it successfully launched from Florida on board a Falcon 9 rocket.

In just a few hours, SpaceX will send its first Crew Dragon capsule on an uncrewed test mission to the orbiting laboratory, and space fans are watching closely for lift-off.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

The first step will be to get congressional authorization and $72 million in 2020 to stand up a Space Force headquarters under the Department of the Air Force. The headquarters initially would have about 200 people. Spac...

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite takes us over the high, snow-studded Alps under clear skies....

Chinese defense contractor CASIC is preparing to launch a new solid propellant launch vehicle in the first half of the year as part of a multiplatform commercial space strategy.

Elon Musk was "emotionally exhausted" by the launch.

We may all have just lived through a spaceflight inflection point.

For the first time in history, a commercially-built and operated American crew spacecraft and rocket, which launched from American soil, is on its way to the International Space Station.

America's newest capsule for astronauts rocketed Saturday toward the International Space Station on a high-stakes test flight by SpaceX.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched the first Crew Dragon spacecraft March 2, starting a critical mission to test the spacecraft before it is ready to carry astronauts. SpaceNews.com

It looks like Ripley won't be flying solo after all -- the dummy passenger on SpaceX's Crew Dragon will have a "Celestial Buddy" along for the ride.

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