SpaceX has sent Japanese and U.S. lunar landers on separate missions in a major step in the race to commercialize the Moon.

Robotic vehicles from Firefly Aerospace of Texas and Ispace of Japan parted ways early Wednesday after being launched on the same SpaceX rocket. Both are aiming for the lunar surface.

But at 12:11 a.m. CST, they launched together on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Central Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is launching its first moon mission ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched early Wednesday morning from Kennedy Space Center carrying two lunar landers. Among them, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost, which is on a ...

SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, January 21 for a Falcon 9 launch of 21 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander flying under NASA’s CLPS program as well as Japanese company ispace’s Resilience lander are set to launch together on a SpaceX Falcon

Following stage separation, the Falcon 9 rocket booster settled for a landing on the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.

An annual memorial was held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Every fourth Thursday in January, NASA remembers fallen astronauts.

NASA is hosting a Day of Remembrance at the Kennedy Space Center tomorrow to honor astronauts who have sacrificed their lives while furthering the cause of space exploration and discovery. The event is held every year to honor the crews of Apollo I and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia.

President Donald Trump made a bold promise to America minutes after taking the Oath of Office: pledging that an American flag would be planted on Mars.

The space shuttle and International Space Station are set to launch onto dollar coins in celebration of the advancements made by two states. The United States Mint has released the designs of the Florida and Texas entries in the American Innovation $1 Coin Program.

Check back for live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team launch updates on this page, starting about 90 minutes before the early morning launch window opens.