SpaceX

Firefly, an American company, made a soft landing on the moon, becoming the second private company to do so. In collaboration with NASA, it’s a key step for future moon and Mars missions.

Residents across several European countries were captivated by a spectacular light show in the early hours Wednesday, as bright lights with long fiery tails streaked across the sky.

Simultaneous launches signal growing private interest in lunar exploration, traditionally dominated by governments.

SpaceX had a previous upperstage failure in March 2023, but none that have caused disruption to air traffic.

Standing 98 meters tall, the New Glenn rocket can transport up to 45 tons to low Earth orbit, more than double SpaceX's Falcon 9 capacity of 23 tons but less than the Falcon Heavy's 63.8 tons.

NASA has announced that it has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission.

Elon Musk's SpaceX company launched Elon Musk's spacecraft in its sixth test. The President-elect of the United States, Trump, attended the event in the audience in South Texas.

Musk, whose politics have taken a sharp right turn, has endorsed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and become a mega donor.

It is the largest spacecraft NASA has built for a planetary mission, at about 100 feet (30.5 meters) long and about 58 feet (17.6 meters) wide with its antennas and solar arrays fully deployed.

A SpaceX crew prepares for a risky mission, aiming for the first private spacewalk during a five-day Polaris Dawn mission.