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Intuitive Machines selects SpaceX to launch commercial lunar lander
Intuitive Machines confirmed plans Wednesday to launch a commercial lunar lander aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast in 2021 on a mission to deliver multiple payloads to the moon, including up to five science instruments for NASA.
Commercial satellite images historic Apollo launch pads
Maxar's eagle-eyed WorldView 3 satellite captured high-resolution views Monday of NASA's twin Apollo-era launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, both now home to new launch vehicles 50 years after humans took their first steps on the moon.
Q&A with Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX (members only)
Elon Musk, SpaceX's founder and chief executive, spoke with reporters via conference call May 15 as the company prepared for the launch of the first 60 satellites to build out a network of potentially thousands of broadband relay stations in low Earth orbit providing high-speed Internet to consumers around the world.
Shuttle-era structure dismantled piece-by-piece at pad 39A
A heavy-duty crane towering over launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in recent weeks has removed several large sections of a disused structure once needed to install satellites and space station modules into space shuttle cargo bays.