The crew returned to Earth on August 9th after spending nearly five months aboard the orbiting laboratory.

NASA’s Crew-10 astronauts will brief reporters Wednesday afternoon on their nearly five-month SpaceX mission aboard the International Space Station. The crew — which included NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers,

But in the early hours of Sunday, SpaceX is also preparing to launch its 33rd commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) using its trusty Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft. The Dragon will be filled with more than 5,000 pounds of supplies for the crew aboard the ISS, which orbits around 250 miles above Earth.

SpaceX is preparing to launch two missions this week - a NASA space station resupply mission and the mysterious Space Force X-37B space plane.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at 11:43 a.m. EDT (1543 GMT) today. Atop the rocket was the company's Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft making its sixth flight, a reuse record for Crew Dragon vehicles.

The mission will transit to the International Space Station over approximately 39 hours, a record for Crew Dragon docking time.

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million mission to study a phenomenon of space physics that has eluded researchers since the dawn of the Space Age.

The race to Mars is heating up with China, SpaceX, and NASA all vying to be the first to land humans on the red planet. Each of these entities has its own strategies and challenges in this ambitious endeavor.