Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California carrying satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture constellation came at 12:39 a.m. PDT (3:39 EDT / 0739 UTC).
Japan's MMX mission aims to return samples from Mars' moons, potentially answering a decades-old question about their origins. It will also make history as the first spacecraft to return to Earth from the Red Planet's orbit.
SpaceX is launching the Starfall reentry capsule and 31 customer payloads on the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission. This will be the second launch of the Starfall capsule.
Margaret Hamilton was a pioneering programmer who helped NASA land Apollo astronauts on the moon. Her example will always inspire us. She played a crucial role in the Apollo project and solved many problems.
On October 18, 1963, Félicette became the first and only cat to travel to space as part of the French space program. Her historic suborbital journey provided crucial data on how living organisms respond to spaceflight.
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