Space

NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 arrived at Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday afternoon ahead of their Thursday launch to the International Space Station (ISS). The four members of Crew-11 are NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch is set to take place from Florida's Space Coast in the early hours of Saturday morning. The launch is currently set for 4:28 a.m.

Dr. Marco Lavalle, NASA JPL Deputy Project Scientist, NISAR joins FOX 35's Garrett Wymer via Zoom to break down the launch of NASA's new US-India NISAR satellite later this month. The satellite has the most advanced radar system ever launched and hopes to give decision-makers more information on the earth's surface impacting their infrastructure/

The University of Central Florida (UCF) is launching a new online space MBA program to meet the expanding needs of the booming space industry on Florida?s Space Coast and around the world. The MBA will be a fully online, part-time graduate business program spanning 24 months in which students will take a set of core MBA courses plus four electives focused on space entrepreneurship, governmental and commercial space finance, space leadership and the global space domain. Greg Autry, Space Czar and associate provost for space commercialization, joins Good Day Orlando to talk about the MBA.

U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody hosted a press conference on Friday afternoon in Brevard County, Florida, to unveil a "major legislative victory" aimed at expanding the country's leadership in the space industry. She says the law will have significant implications for innovation, national security and economic growth in Florida and beyond.

Kennedy Space Center opened the Gantry at LC 39-A today, featuring 360-degree views of NASA's launchpads, spaceports, a new theater show, virtual rocket-building and an outdoor courtyard for guests to watch rocket launches. Therein Protze, COO of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex joins FOX 35's Garrett Wymer live via Zoom to talk about the new attraction for people wanting to watch rocket launches up close now open in Brevard County.

The SpaceX Crew-11 mission is targeted to launch in late July or early August 2025. The mission will carry four astronauts ? NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Michael Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov ? to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew answered questions from the press at a news conference on Thursday, July 10.

NASA has announced the discovery of a previously unseen planet just outside our solar system, spotted by the powerful James Webb Space Telescope and offering new clues into how planets ? including Earth ? may have formed.

SpaceX launched 27 Starlink satellites on Wednesday afternoon from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

A SpaceX Starship exploded at the company's Starbase launch site in Texas Wednesday night, bursting into a massive fireball. Ken Kremer, research scientist and founder and managing editor of "Space UpClose," joins Good Day Orlando to talk about how the explosion could impact Florida plans for the rocket.

Officials say a SpaceX's Starship suffered a catastrophic failure and exploded just after 11 p.m. Wednesday prior to a static fire test.