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March 15, 2026

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[ March 14, 2026 ] NASA Administrator teases further Artemis program updates in one-on-one interview Artemis
[ March 13, 2026 ] NASA ready for another shot at launching Artemis 2 moon mission Artemis
[ March 13, 2026 ] SpaceX launches 25 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base Falcon 9
[ March 13, 2026 ] SpaceX launches Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral on cloudy Saturday morning Falcon 9
[ March 10, 2026 ] NASA inspector general assesses agency’s management of moon lander risk Artemis

Video: SpaceX lands rocket on drone ship for first time

April 8, 2016 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster steered toward a first-ever landing on a drone ship floating 185 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral in the Atlantic Ocean minutes after blasting off from Florida with a space station cargo ship.

Video: Launch camera replays from Friday’s Falcon 9 blastoff

April 8, 2016 Justin Ray

Replays of the Falcon 9 launch of the eighth resupply mission to the International Space Station from various cameras around Cape Canaveral.

Photos: SpaceX cargo mission prepared for launch

April 8, 2016 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s eighth operational cargo mission to the International Space Station is set for liftoff with nearly 3.5 tons of research investigations, crew provisions and an experimental expandable habitat for the International Space Station.

Live coverage: Space station robot arm captures Dragon supply ship

April 8, 2016 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule arrived at the International Space Station early Sunday with 3.5 tons of supplies and experiments, including an inflatable room to test out technologies for future use on deep space missions. British astronaut Tim Peake captured Dragon with the robotic arm at 7:23 a.m. EDT (1123 GMT).

SpaceX adds abort function for Dragon cargo flights

April 7, 2016 Stephen Clark

Taking a lesson from a launch mishap last June, SpaceX wrote coded commands for future Dragon cargo capsules to deploy their parachutes for an emergency landing in the event of rocket failures, starting with Friday’s resupply flight to the International Space Station.

Timeline for the Falcon 9 rocket’s 23rd flight

April 7, 2016 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in 10 minutes Friday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying nearly 7,000 pounds of supplies and experiments.

SpaceX ready to return to the space station

April 7, 2016 Stephen Clark

Ground crews loaded time-critical experiments, including 20 mice to help scientists study muscle atrophy, into SpaceX’s commercial Dragon cargo capsule Thursday, a day before a launch planned from Cape Canaveral toward the International Space Station.

Video: SpaceX lands rocket on drone ship for first time

Video: Launch camera replays from Friday’s Falcon 9 blastoff

Photos: SpaceX cargo mission prepared for launch

Live coverage: Space station robot arm captures Dragon supply ship

SpaceX adds abort function for Dragon cargo flights

Timeline for the Falcon 9 rocket’s 23rd flight

SpaceX ready to return to the space station

Mostly clear skies predicted for Friday’s SpaceX launch

Static fire complete in run-up to launch of SpaceX supply ship

SpaceX hopes to sell used Falcon 9 boosters for as low as $40 million