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Wednesday, November 29

Look, no hands! SpaceX completes automatic docking in another first

SpaceX has delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, following up a historic lift-off with an equally smooth docking in yet another first for Elon Musk’s company.

A decade in the making, SpaceX launch foiled by the weather

SpaceX, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s private rocket company, has been forced by foul weather to scrub a planned launch of two Americans into orbit from Florida, a mission that would be the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from US soil in nine years.

SpaceX astronauts Robert Behnken (right) and Douglas Hurley will man the first privately funded flight this week. (Photo: NASA/Kim Shiflett/PA Wire)

It's the starship free enterprise: SpaceX set for first mission

Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to launch two American astronauts to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ending the US space agency’s nine-year hiatus in human spaceflight.