NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch a European Mars rover, support for which the agency is once again proposing to cancel.

Artemis II mission is set to launch at 6:24 p.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center. The mission will send a crew of four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon, marking a historic return to deep space in over 50 years.

NASA's Artemis II two-hour launch window opens at 6:24 pm ET Wednesday, April 1, 2026. See best places on Florida's Treasure Coast to watch liftoff.

“Basically, the Artemis II mission was such a wild success that now it’s sort of in the hands of the contractors — Blue Origin and SpaceX — to be ready for NASA’s next mission,” Platt said. The launch window for Blue Origin’s BlueBird will open at 6:45 a.m. Sunday and will last for two hours.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch a Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft to the ISS Saturday morning. Expect a sonic boom.

Here's when Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is expected to lift off this weekend, where rocket launches are visible in Florida and how to watch liftoff.

A new White House initiative to develop space nuclear power directs NASA to develop a minimum 20-kW fission reactor and fly a variant to the lunar surface by 2030, with an eye on having high-power reactors ready to launch in the 2030s.

NASA and Voyager Technologies have signed an agreement to launch a seventh private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, or ISS, targeting a Florida launch no earlier than 2028.