A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 1, 2025 at 2:44 a.m. EST (0744 UTC). Read more👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/1LHuEU Credit: SpaceX | Space.com

Blastoff! Vega-C rocket launches advanced Earth-observation satellite for South Korea

On Dec. 5, 2014, NASA's Orion space capsule launched for the first time. Space History Archives👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/8a1r0H This spacecraft is designed to take astronauts to the moon and even Mars. No one was on board for this test launch, but there will be astronauts blasting off into space inside these capsules by the mid-2020s. For the first test launch, it lifted off on a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral. Four and a half hours later, it splashed dow