Watch a time-lapse video of the Falcon 9 rocket being lifted upright at launch complex 39A in readiness for another launch attempt on a commercial space station resupply mission.
Falcon 9
Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, flying with a first stage booster that was previously launched and recovered in May, lifted from Cape Canaveral at 1:18 a.m. EDT (0518 GMT) Tuesday with Indonesia’s Merah Putih communications satellite. The first stage accomplished a pinpoint landing on SpaceX’s drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mission Reports
Soyuz ferries three crew members to space station
A Soyuz rocket carrying a Russian commander, a NASA co-pilot and a United Arab Emirates guest cosmonaut blasted off from Kazakhstan Wednesday, chased down the International Space Station and glided in for a picture-perfect docking, kicking off an unprecedented end-of-year schedule that includes up to a dozen spacewalks.