What is SpaceX? How does it make money? The company is set to make history as, alongside Nasa, it sends two astronauts to the International Space Station - the first time a private company has done this. The launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida is scheduled for 16:33 local time (20:33 GMT / 21:33 BST).

SpaceX is set for its most important milestone, a launch that may well define the future of the U.S. space program. Elon Musk’s company plans to launch two NASA astronauts on Wednesday — the first crewed mission in SpaceX history. The mission, called Demo-2, is technically the final test flight of the company’s spacecraft. Regardless of the nature of the mission, Demo-2 will be the first launch of NASA astronauts from the U.S. since 2011.

The Demo-2 launch, carrying NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, will lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 27.

The first astronauts launched by SpaceX are breaking new ground for style with hip spacesuits, gull-wing Teslas and a sleek rocketship — all of it white with black trim. The color coordinating is thanks to Elon Musk, the driving force behind both SpaceX and Tesla, and a big fan of flash and science fiction.

"You know what, you can never sell this NASA and SpaceX team short." On Thursday and Friday, senior managers from NASA, SpaceX, and the space agency's international partners held long meetings to review all of the aspects of an upcoming flight of the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Perhaps the night sky has been saved. SpaceX, the private rocket company founded by Elon Musk, announced changes last week to a constellation of tens of thousands of internet satellites it plans to send to orbit. The alterations could prevent these false stars from polluting our views of the heavens and interfering with the science of astronomy — though issues remain for scientists to contend with.

Six SpaceX employees have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Monday, according to an internal company memo seen by CNBC.

Is SpaceX's planned Starlink constellation a real, low-latency broadband service? That's the question at the heart of a new funding discussion, which could unlock up to $16 billion in federal subsidies.

"I think we need, probably, on the order of 1,000 ships."

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent the company’s last first-generation Dragon cargo capsule on a resupply run to the International Space Station, and then went on to notch a milestone of its own.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off March 6 and placed into orbit a Dragon spacecraft on the final flight of that version of the cargo vehicle. The Falcon 9 launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:50 p.m. Eastern. The Dragon spacecraft separated from the rocket’s upper stage in low Earth orbit nine and half minutes later.

The Space Force has Elon Musk's seal of approval. SpaceX's billionaire founder and CEO said he's onboard with the sixth branch of the U.S. military, which President Donald Trump officially established in December 2019.

They'll build a massive Mobile Service Tower for rockets, too

SpaceX's latest prototype for its massive Starship rocket appeared to burst during a pressure test late Friday (Feb. 28), blowing apart.

SpaceX, Elon Musk's powerhouse of a space exploration company, could be on course to seriously compromise humanity's study of outer space. Among its many rocket launches and plans to colonize Mars, SpaceX has a more Earthling-focused project. Its Starlink project aims to put up to 42,000 satellites into orbit around the Earth, where they would beam down data providing internet to remote parts of the globe.

To prove it is safe for astronauts, the company will test its Crew Dragon capsule’s rescue system.

Elon musk He seems to be quite focused on Starship at this time, sharing photos of the work being done on the Starship orbital prototype designed "SN1", which is currently being built at the SpaceX facility in Boca Chica, Texas. The CEO answered a series of questions on Twitter Thursday night, providing more details about Starship and how it will eventually work to achieve Musk's goal of turning humans into an interplanetary species with a colony on Mars.

Nasa and SpaceX are set to destroy a rocket as part of an emergency test. The procedure, known as an "In-Flight Abort Test", will ensure that a new capsule meant for carrying astronauts would allow them to escape in the case of a disastrous launch. But it will also mean destroying one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets to understand what would happen if one really exploded by accident.

Connecting to Starlink will be really easy, Elon Musk says

2019 was the shot. 2020 is the chaser.