Slowed by four main parachutes in predawn darkness, the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft descended and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, Jan. 15, wrapping up NASA's first-ever astronaut medical evacuation from the International Space Station.

FLORIDA TODAY's Space Team provides live blog coverage of all 2026 launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Once given the digital boarding pass, people will have the option to be a virtual guest for the launch and can sign up for mission updates and other details. The estimated 10-day Artemis II test flight is expected to launch no later than April 2026, according to NASA.

SpaceX's 4th rocket launch of 2026 from California will be the debut Starlink mission of the year on the West Coast. Here's where to watch liftoff.

A packed launch calendar over the coming weeks and months underscores the accelerating pace of global spaceflight.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin had previously suggested that the third launch of the mega-rocket would take the space company's robotic lunar lander to the moon.

Live updates from SpaceX’s Sunday evening Starlink 6-100 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

After days of delays, Blue Origin's towering New Glenn rocket thundered into the skies above Florida once again. The mission, which Blue Origin refers to as NG-2, was the spacecraft's second-ever launch following its debut earlier in January. But it was ...

After liftoff, the Falcon 9 will deploy 29 Starlink satellites. The booster should land on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.