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Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX appears to have a busy month planned for February at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Blue Origin launched six people to suborbital space today (Jan. 22). It was the 17th human spaceflight for the company, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos.

Who's up for an evening rocket launch? Weather permitting, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket could be visible from Palm Beach County on Wednesday, Feb. 4.

Before NASA can decide a rocket launch date for Artemis 2, the giant SLS rocket has to ace a critical fueling test known as a wet dress rehearsal.

The launch on Monday (Feb. 2, Groundhog Day) began at Space Launch Complex 4 East from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Just like Punxsutawney Phil this year, the rocket "saw" its shadow, flying into a sunny blue sky at 10:47 a.m. EDT (1547 GMT or 7:47 a.m. PDT local time).

NASA's Artemis II mission reached a critical milestone this week as teams conducted a wet dress rehearsal of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft during an unusually intense blast of cold air surged across Florida, delivering record-breaking low temperatures to the Sunshine State.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 team has entered a carefully controlled two-week quarantine as the countdown begins for their journey to the International Space Station. The four astronauts—representing NASA, the European Space Agency,