SpaceX chalked up another human spaceflight Monday night, taking four civilians on a trip around the Earth that has never ...

The SpaceX passengers, a Chinese bitcoin investor and three explorers, will be on the historic flight for 3 1/2 days.

Chun Wang, a Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur, paid an undisclosed amount for the mission. Some satellites are already in polar orbit, and researchers called it a routine flight.

No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...

A SpaceX spacecraft carrying four astronauts is on a pioneering journey circling Earth over its poles after launching Monday ...

The crew will observe Earth's polar regions 430 kilometers above the surface, allowing the Crew Dragon Resilience to travel ...

SpaceX launches private astronauts on first crewed polar orbit SpaceX launched the first human spaceflight directly over Earth's polar regions on Monday -- a days-long, privately funded orbital ...

The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained ...

Space agencies from around the world launched a total of 244 successful missions into orbit or space in 2024, which is the most in history. The US led the way with over half of those launches.

But throughout the final few hours of the countdown, SpaceX engineers were troubleshooting an apparent problem with one of two clamp arms that hold the Falcon 9 rocket to its launch support gantry.

NASA and SpaceX will get their next opportunity to send the rocket into space when the launch window opens no earlier than 7:03 p.m. EDT on Friday. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared a ...

Opportunities to launch exist until 12:10 a.m.. If the Falcon 9 launches, this would not only be the 21st orbital launch of the year for Florida's Space ... into the night sky, the rocket will ...