SpaceX's next-generation rocket engine is ready to fly and will likely power a commercial space launch for the first time this summer, company officials announced Wednesday (March 20). Full story
Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers to the Red Planet for perhaps $500,000 a trip. Full story
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SpaceX, the company started by PayPal co-founder and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, is stepping up its pursuit of a reusable rocket with a suborbital craft named "Grasshopper" Full story
A rocket built by the private spaceflight company SpaceX performed an engine test on Saturday, just days ahead of its planned launch to send a new commercial space capsule on its maiden flight next week. Full story
A privately built rocket designed by the spaceflight company SpaceX to launch commercial space capsules into orbit hit a snag during an engine test Friday, less than a week before a planned Dec. 7 launch. Full story
A second launch attempt for the privately funded SpaceX "Falcon 9" rocket succeeded; a rocket which is in line to takeover ferrying payloads into orbit for NASA.
A video still shows debris falling away from SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket during its ascent on Sunday night.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, topped by a Dragon cargo capsule, rises from its launch pad at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida during preparations for Sunday's scheduled launch to the International Space Station.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden stands next to SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch vehicle as he speaks to the media at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is due to launch a Dragon cargo capsule into orbit early Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 40.
