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Photos: Falcon 9 vertical on the launch pad
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was lifted upright on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Monday after workers loaded time-sensitive supplies and research specimens into the Dragon cargo craft’s pressurized cabin.
Cargo flight first of many SpaceX launches planned for 2015
SpaceX will kick off a busy 2015 calendar playing catch-up, with liftoff of a Dragon supply ship for the International Space Station set for Tuesday after a delay from December.
VideoVideo: SpaceX launch and landing preview briefing
NASA, SpaceX and United States Air Force officials hold the pre-launch news conference for the CRS-5 flight on Jan. 5.
VideoShips deployed into the Atlantic for experimental rocket landing
A barge and command ship chartered by SpaceX are stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida's East Coast in a bid to recover a used-up Falcon 9 rocket stage Tuesday in a long-theorized -- but never tried -- maneuver that could lay the groundwork for a big advance in space technology.
Falcon 9/SpaceX-5 launch timeline
Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral on SpaceX's fifth operational resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Live coverage: Dragon completes space station resupply flight
SpaceX's Dragon supply ship wrapped up a 29-day stay at the International Space Station on Tuesday, departing the complex with with nearly 3,700 pounds of research specimens and return cargo before re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
In an eerie scene, Chinese villagers visit rocket crash site
The expended first stage of a Long March rocket tumbled into a forested region of southwestern China a few minutes after successfully blasting off Dec. 31 with a Chinese weather satellite, and photographers were there to capture the booster's fall back to Earth.
2014’s launch tally highest in two decades
There were more successful space launches in 2014 than in any year since 1992, with Russia, the United States and China responsible for more than 80 percent of global launch activity.
Rain and clouds in the forecast for Tuesday’s SpaceX launch
Forecasters predict mostly cloudy conditions and a chance of light rain for Tuesday morning's scheduled takeoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a space station-bound supply ship, with a 40 percent chance weather could prevent liftoff during an instantaneous predawn launch opportunity.
China sends new weather satellite into orbit
China launched a spacecraft Wednesday to replenish the country's fleet of meteorological satellites providing warnings of weather fronts and tropical cyclones across Asia.