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One down, one to go: SpaceX launches the first of two back-to-back Falcon 9 flights.
The mission aims to raise $200 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and one of the crew members will be a frontline health worker.
Individual investors, fueled by social media posts, bought up GameStop stock, artificially inflating the price. The move caused Wall Street firms to take a hit. Manuel Bojorquez has more.
It was the most satellites ever launched by a single rocket
SpaceX has now launched more than 1,000 Starlink internet relay satellites.
A surge in Tesla's stock price has vaulted the entrepreneur to the top spot, with a fortune worth $188 billion.
The launching was the first of 40 or more SpaceX flights planned for 2021.
The launch came two days later than planned because of higher-than-normal pressure in the rocket's second stage liquid oxygen tank that triggered a last-minute "auto abort" Thursday.
Under new management, OneWeb launches a fourth batch of internet satellites.
The launching was the 25th Falcon 9 flight this year as SpaceX continues a rapid-fire cadence.
SpaceX on Sunday shot off a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a powerful next-generation SiriusXM radio satellite, chalking up the California rocket builder's 25th flight to orbit so far this year. Watch the launch here.
Despite the setback, an elated Elon Musk says valuable data was collected.
A test flight of the SpaceX Mars rocket ended in a fiery explosion in Texas on Wednesday.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has no reports of crashes or injuries, but it will look at possible risks of the ball joint failure as complaints mount.
The Falcon 9 rocket's first stage set a new record, making its seventh flight from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX on Saturday launched a rocket from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Falcon 9 rocket is carrying into orbit a satellite that will monitor sea levels for at least a decade.
The Sentinel-6 satellite is the first of two in a billion-dollar program to monitor Earth's oceans.
NASA aims to end reliance on Russia with first operational flight of Crew Dragon spacecraft.
The historic joint effort between NASA and SpaceX, called Crew-1, to launch a crew of astronauts to the International Space Station has been delayed citing weather conditions. While there were no issues with the launch, the decision to delay was made out of concerns about the landing. Mark Strassmann reports.
The launch was expected to give NASA the data needed to press ahead with the next Crew Dragon fight to space station.
The launch will mark the first operational flight by SpaceX's commercially developed Crew Dragon spacecraft.
It was the first of two planned Starlink launchings in just three days.
Launch delay will give engineers more time to resolve an engine turbopump issue on a different rocket
Shrugging off a Falcon 9 launch abort last week and a scrub Monday, SpaceX fired 60 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit Tuesday, the 13th batch in a fast-growing global network of broadband relay stations. CBS Los Angeles reports.
The Justice Department is facing continued backlash over its partial releases of the Epstein files, with lawmakers and survivors denouncing the limited nature of the disclosures.
President Trump announced plans to build a new "Trump class" of battleships, part of the Pentagon's new "Golden Fleet."
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said the agency is pausing leases for five offshore wind farms "due to national security concerns."
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal is pushing for more information on a White House ballroom project championed by President Trump, sending letters to the project's architect and some fundraising dinner attendees.
A small Mexican navy plane on a medical mission crashed Monday near Galveston, Texas, killing at least five people.
A federal judge gave the Trump administration two weeks to submit a plan to either return a group of men previously held at a notorious Salvadoran prison to the U.S., or give them a hearing to contest allegations of gang membership.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill version of the weight-loss drug Wegovy.
Rifts over the direction of the conservative movement emerged during Turning Point USA's conference, as speakers attacked each other by name.
President Trump has responded to the release of the Epstein files, saying Monday that the release of photos risked ensnaring "highly respected" people with no connection to Epstein's crimes.