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![NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi will fly on SpaceX's CREW-1 mission.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/i3GwAerJ9ZKDJrUhMfWSAc-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX set to launch first fully-crewed ISS mission Saturday
By Rafi Letzter published
We're likely just days away from the first fully-crewed SpaceX launch, after SpaceX fixed engine problems that cropped up in October.
![SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk celebrates the successful launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on May 30, 2020.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Mh3URgREh6ttMYsBiwgW4C-320-80.jpg)
The Elysium effect: The coming backlash to the billionaire 'NewSpace' revolution
By Rick Tumlinson published
As entrepreneurs spend billions on space, there is a backlash building that holds their projects as icons of extravagance, even as they may help save the Earth. This is the "Elysium effect."
![Starman sent pictures home before leaving Earth orbit.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/q2fhEB3K6znXwphgHHqmef-320-80.jpg)
'Starman' just zipped past Mars in his rapidly-decaying Tesla Roadster
By Rafi Letzter published
Starman — the dummy riding a Tesla Roadster through space — has made his closest approach ever to Mars since his stunt launch in 2018.
![SpaceX's Starship could launch on its first uncrewed flight to Mars in 2024.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/uKk8NJCgHDqPSkjPBP5cQ5-320-80.jpg)
Elon Musk says SpaceX's 1st Starship trip to Mars could fly in 4 years
By Hanneke Weitering published
SpaceX is on track to launch its first Mars mission in as little as four years from now, SpaceX's founder and CEO Elon Musk said Friday (Oct. 16) at the International Mars Society Convention.
![SpaceX's SN6 Starship prototype flies on a 500-foot-high test hop on Sept. 3, 2020.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kWhPhrhGKfqEuGqoRNGq7b-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX gearing up for 12-mile-high test flight with prototype of Mars-colonizing Starship
By Mike Wall published
The next big leap for SpaceX's Mars-colonizing Starship spacecraft appears to be right around the corner.
![A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket takes off on an Air Force mission on Aug. 8, 2019. SpaceX and ULA will share the job of carrying "national security" cargo for the military going forward, as the Pentagon rushes to retire the Atlas V and its Russian-made rocket engines.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fSQATV7nofAzZfXjVyAtzU-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX wins Pentagon rocket contract to send spy satellites into orbit
By Rafi Letzter published
SpaceX and United Launch Alliance will share the job of launching the Pentagon's most important military equipment from 2022 to 2026.
![SpaceX founder Elon Musk spoke at the welcoming ceremony for Demo-2 astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken held on Aug. 2, 2020.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gsNeuKyeXZpS2zPG6oW5vM-320-80.png)
'I prayed for this one,' SpaceX's Elon Musk says after NASA astronauts' splashdown success
By Meghan Bartels published
![Comet NEOWISE seen in the night sky at Jaufenpass in South Tyrol, Itlay.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zVhnPwSthkgsWcRPPD8LeL-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX satellites keep wrecking images of comet NEOWISE
By Rafi Letzter published
The comet NEOWISE is visible in the dawn sky right now, but photographers are facing a new challenge when they try to capture it: the SpaceX fleet of Starlink satellites.
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