SpaceX Starship prototype launch a success
SpaceX successfully launched and landed a prototype Starship spacecraft after several previous efforts ended with explosions. CBSN's Tanya Rivero has details.
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Ticket auction for flight to space
Jeff Bezos' space company, Blue Origin, is auctioning off one ticket to the highest bidder to fly aboard a planned launch in July. CBSN's Tanya Rivero has more on that plus the latest test flight by it competitor, SpaceX.
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This video from SpaceX shows a Falcon 9 rocket blasting off from California carrying 10 Iridium NEXT communications satellites into orbit, followed by a successful rocket booster landing.
SpaceX successfully launches — and lands — Starship prototype
The Starship launch and landing capped a remarkable three weeks for the California-based rocket builder.
SpaceX launch
On Thursday morning, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying an X-37B spaceplane on a classified mission for the U.S. Air Force. Watch it here.
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SpaceX cancels launch
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SpaceX launches massive satellite
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SpaceX rocket launch
SpaceX got a big boost in confidence with the successful launch of a Falcon 9 rocket. Back in September, one of its rockets went up in flames on a Florida launch pad. But it was a picture-perfect liftoff at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Carter Evans is at SpaceX headquarters with the details.
SpaceX success
SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket for the first time since its last effort, which resulted in an explosion on the launch pad. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood joins CBSN to discuss the launch.
SpaceX rocket launch
After a failed rocket launch in September 2016 created a massive explosion on a Florida launchpad, SpaceX will give it another shot with the Falcon 9 rocket. CBS News' Ben Tracy explains what's at stake.
SpaceX readies next launch
In September a devastating explosion at Cape Canaveral, Florida, destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket, its multi-million-dollar payload and the launch pad it was sitting on. That grounded the commercial space company, SpaceX. But now the countdown is underway for the first launch since the disaster. Popular Science senior editor Sophie Bushwick joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to discuss the explosion's cause and SpaceX's recovery.
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SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with space station
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SpaceX rocket booster slams into moon, expected to leave large crater
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Michigan reports 2 cyclosporiasis deaths
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