SpaceX

From SpaceX plucking its huge Super Heavy rocket out of the sky to the launch of NASA's $5 billion Europa Clipper mission, this year held many amazing advances.

SpaceX launched more than 130 missions this year and made significant progress with its new Starship vehicle, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built.

NASA has pushed its first two crewed Artemis moon missions back to 2026 and 2027, and the move could have big ramifications.

SpaceX launched 21 Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast early Monday morning (Dec. 23) and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 30 payloads as part of the Bandwagon-2 mission launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignites each its engines just as an abort is called at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2024.

Axiom Space has decided to change up the method for assembling its commercial space station, meaning the outpost could be free-flying as soon as 2028.

California-based company Vast Space has booked two crewed flights to the ISS with SpaceX, though the missions still must be approved by NASA.

Firefly Aerospace and Japanese company ispace are putting their moon landers on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which is scheduled to lift off in January.