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SpaceX launched its 33rd commercial resupply mission (CRS-33) to the International Space Station in August 2025. The Dragon spacecraft carried a trunk with thrusters that can help raise the station’s orbit.
Samsung launched the Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra at Galaxy Unpacked in San Francisco on February 25, 2026. Pre-orders opened the same day, with global availability from around March 11.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s Resilience lunar landers from Florida on January 15, 2025. Blue Ghost later landed on the Moon; Resilience crashed.
The Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, was established in 1962 and renamed for President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Its visitor complex displays Space Shuttle Atlantis and a Saturn V rocket.
On December 11, 2024, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index put Elon Musk’s net worth at $447 billion, the first time anyone had passed $400 billion.
A Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on December 8, 2024. Thirteen of the satellites carried direct-to-cell service.
