and its tanks were much shorter than those on today’s Falcon 9. It used nine Merlin 1C engines – their design borrowed and slightly modified from SpaceX’s early Falcon 1 – on the first ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander launched at 1:11 a.m. on Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. Here's what to know.

NROL-108 lifted off at 9:00 a.m. Eastern ... upper stage liquid oxygen tank. This was SpaceX’s second launch for the NRO. The first one was NROL-76 which flew on a Falcon 9 in May 2017 from ...