Mr. Irving is an investigative journalist who has covered aviation and aerospace for more than 30 years.

The nearest US competitor to SpaceX was Rocket Lab, with 14 launches and 33 spacecraft. The competition in "upmass," that is ...

A pod of bottlenose dolphins seemingly took interest in the capsule that dropped out of the sky, circling and surfacing as ...

NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, returned to Earth at 5:57 p.m. EDT. Teams aboard SpaceX recovery vessels retrieved the ...