Elon Musk smiles during a new conference in 2020 after a SpaceX rocket test flight at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Space mining company AstroForge is working with SpaceX on plans to extract minerals from asteroids.

"This is the first time that a rocket has taken off from one country, gone to space and landed in another country!" -- SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk.

For the first time ever, SpaceX launched a rocket into space from Florida and landed the booster the Bahamas, allowing for future polar-orbit spaceflight missions.

Construction of SpaceX’s Gigabay in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is set for launch. Federal Aviation Administration documents created last month indicate construction on the space exploration technology company’s new Starship Gigabay launchpad could begin as soon as April and wrap up in August 2026.

Prepare for another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch tonight! Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live coverage of tonight’s SpaceX Starlink 12-20 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. SpaceX is targeting 9:24 p.

The Gigabay is a large step towards launching Starship from Florida. SpaceX has Cape Canaveral facilities and already is manufacturing Starship tower segments in Florida and shipping them to Texas ...