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.

Depending on weather and clouds, rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral can be seen from Daytona Beach to Melbourne to Vero Beach

Depending on weather and clouds, rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral can be seen from Daytona Beach to Melbourne to Vero Beach

"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.

Rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral, Florida, can typically be seen from Daytona Beach to Melbourne to Vero Beach. Watching a rocket launch while at the beach is SO Florida.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40. The Falcon 9's first-stage booster successfully landed on the drone ship "A Shortfall of Gravitas," marking its 21st landing. The next launch ...

Rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral, Florida, can typically be seen from Daytona Beach to Melbourne to Vero Beach. Watching a rocket launch while at the beach is SO Florida.