Live coverage: SpaceX cargo capsule returns to Earth

Watch a 4K video replay of the first Falcon Heavy launch as viewed from the Kennedy Space Center Press Site around 3 miles from pad 39A.

Five small satellites, including one built by high school students in Southern California, are awaiting launch Friday from New Zealand aboard the first commercial flight of Rocket Lab’s Electron booster.

NASA is modifying plans to send astronauts back to the moon in 2024 by taking the Gateway — a mini-space station to be assembled in lunar orbit — out of the critical path in favor of a simplified architecture, according to the agency’s chief of human spaceflight.