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The complete guide to NASA’s Project Mercury: the Mercury Seven, the Redstone and Atlas rockets, all six crewed missions, and the program’s legacy.

The complete guide to NASA’s Apollo program: all 11 crewed missions from Apollo 7 to Apollo 17, the Saturn IB and Saturn V rockets that launched them, the astronaut crews, and the legacy Apollo left for Artemis.

Last updated: November 2, 2026 The Florida Space Coast is entering an unusual rocket drought. After the Bandwagon-5 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral on October 20, 2026, SpaceX will not launch another Falcon 9 from Florida for at least six weeks — a rare quiet stretch for a coast that recorded 109 launches in […]

Starship, SLS and New Glenn are the biggest rockets flying today. See how they compare on height, thrust, payload, reusability, cost and flight history.

Artemis III will no longer land on the Moon — it’s now a 2027 crewed Earth-orbit test of lunar landers. Here’s why NASA changed the plan and what comes next.

NASA has outlined an official roadmap for Boeing’s Starliner, featuring an uncrewed test flight this winter and a target for crewed missions in 2028. Backed by a $359 million package, the comeback plan addresses thruster design flaws, a shift to the Vulcan Centaur rocket, and NASA’s ongoing push for orbital redundancy.

NASA confirmed SpaceX will sunset Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 in favor of Starship. Here’s the timeline, what replaces them, and what it means for the ISS.

Following Starship Flight 14’s historic milestone of reaching orbit and deploying Starlink V3 satellites, anticipation is building for Starship Flight 14’s successor. Discover what we know and what remains unconfirmed regarding target launch dates, upcoming booster catch attempts, and the future of SpaceX’s fully reusable launch system.

Last updated: October 6, 2026 Not getting launch alerts from the Space Launch Schedule app? Notification issues are one of the most common problems on both iOS and Android, and most are fixed in under five minutes. Follow the steps below for your device to get your launch alerts working again. If you are having […]

Discover how Project Gemini rocket launches paved the way for lunar missions and shaped the future of human space exploration.

Last updated: September 30, 2026. Every time a Falcon 9 lifts off from Florida with astronauts on board, it’s flying under one of the most consequential partnerships in the history of spaceflight: the NASA Commercial Crew Program. Instead of NASA owning and operating the rockets and spacecraft itself, the agency buys seats and cargo capacity […]

Every space buff knows April 12, 1961—the day Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. But here’s the twist the Soviet Union hid for a decade: Gagarin actually ejected at 7,000 meters and parachuted down separately from Vostok 1!

What happens behind the scenes of a classified NROL launch? Explore the mission of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the agency responsible for America’s fleet of “spy satellites” and the cutting-edge technology that keeps our nation safe from the ground to high earth orbit.

If the Space Launch Schedule app is crashing, freezing, or failing to open after a recent update, don’t worry. This guide provides clear, step-by-step instructions for force-restarting, clearing cache, and reinstalling the app on both iOS and Android devices to get you back to tracking launches quickly.

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin is reshaping the future of spaceflight through reusable rockets, advanced engines, lunar landers, and a long‑term vision for millions living and working in space.