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Falcon Heavy | Flight Animation When Falcon Heavy lifts off it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. Thrust at liftoff is equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft operating simultaneously.

Watch live as a SpaceX Crew Dragon returns to Earth with four astronauts aboard A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule will return to Earth on Monday bringing home four astronauts who have been living aboard the International Space Station since April. Weather permitting, Crew Dragon Endeavour will undock from the station at 2:05 p.m. EST (1905 GMT) Monday, and splashdown at 10:33 p.m. (0333 GMT Tuesday). Aboard the capsule will be NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, along with ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Japan's Akihiko Hoshide. If you would like to support our coverage please consider becoming a Spaceflight Now Member: https://spaceflightnow.com/subscribe-to-spaceflight-now/

Crew-2 Mission | Return After 199 days in space, the longest-duration mission for a U.S. spacecraft, Dragon and the Crew-2 astronauts, Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide, and Thomas Pesquet, returned to Earth, splashing down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida at 10:33 p.m. EST on November 8. Dragon and the Crew-2 astronauts were quickly recovered by the SpaceX recovery team. SpaceX will transport Dragon back to Cape Canaveral, Florida for inspections and refurbishment ahead of future human spaceflight missions. This mission marked multiple firsts for SpaceX and NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, including being the first to fly two international partners, the first crew mission to use a flight-proven Dragon and Falcon 9, and the first U.S. spacecraft...