NASA SpaceX Crew-12 launched from Florida, with liftoff seen in South Carolina, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Maryland

Early risers across the East Coast may get a special pre-dawn show Friday morning as NASA and SpaceX prepare to launch the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station.

The most powerful version of Europe's Ariane 6 rocket flew for the first time ever on Thursday (Feb. 12), launching 32 of Amazon's internet satellites to orbit.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A crewed rocket launch is scheduled for early Friday morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and it will be visible from North Carolina. SpaceX and NASA have planned the launch for 5:15 a.

Falcon 9 is a reusable, two-stage rocket built by SpaceX to carry astronauts and cargo to Earth orbit and beyond. SpaceX describes it as the world’s first orbital-class reusable rocket, designed so the most expensive components can be flown again to help lower the cost of access to space.

What time is late-night liftoff? ULA Vulcan rocket may be seen for most of Florida pending weather, clouds. Did your city make launch visibility map?

A mysterious light in the sky over South Australia sparked speculation of UFO activity, but was likely the result of a rocket launch in South America.

The quartet's arrival will take the ISS back up to its normal complement of seven crewmembers. The station has been staffed by just three astronauts — one American and two Russians — since Jan. 15, when SpaceX's Crew-11 mission departed for Earth.