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VideoFalcon 9’s launch failure viewed from KSC press site
Spaceflight Now's camera at the Kennedy Space Center's Complex 39 press site captured this view of the Falcon 9 rocket's high-altitude anomaly Sunday.
VideoVideo: SpaceX supply mission explodes just after launch
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket failed approximately 2 minutes, 20 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Sunday. Watch a video of the dramatic launch failure, plus a slowed-down high-definition version at one-tenth normal speed.
Photos: Falcon 9 breaks apart en route to ISS
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket broke apart just after launch on a commercial resupply run to the International Space Station. Here are a few images from NASA TV's launch broadcast.
Photos: SpaceX supply ship poised for blastoff
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, standing 208 feet tall, is mounted on a Cape Canaveral launch pad for liftoff with a fresh package of supplies and research experiments for the International Space Station.
Live coverage: Falcon 9 disintegrates after launch
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated shortly after launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, dealing a blow to the entrepreneurial space company and NASA's supply chain to the International Space Station.
Falcon 9 rocket passes last major preflight test
Ground crews plan to load the final cargo into SpaceX's Dragon supply ship Saturday after the capsule's Falcon 9 rocket booster briefly fired up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral for a flight readiness check.
Cosmonaut from Kazakhstan to fly on Soyuz in September
Russia's space agency says a Kazakh cosmonaut will fly to the International Space Station on 10-day mission in September, replacing British singer Sarah Brightman, who backed out of the mission in May.
VideoSpaceX aims for another rocket landing experiment Sunday
Keeping with its mantra of fly, fix and fly again, SpaceX says it has resolved a valve problem that kept one of its Falcon 9 boosters from successfully touching down on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean in April, ahead of another landing attempt after a launch from Cape Canaveral set for Sunday.
Astronaut Scott Kelly looks down on aurora lights
From a perch more than 250 miles up, astronaut Scott Kelly got a bird's-eye view of this week's spectacular auroral display that enraptured skywatchers around the world.
Jason 3 satellite shipped to Vandenberg for SpaceX launch
An international oceanography satellite arrived at its California launch base from a factory in France on Thursday for fueling, testing and other final preps before its scheduled Aug. 8 blastoff on a Falcon 9 rocket.