Falcon 9
The rocket you will see most. It lifts satellites, cargo, and crews. The first stage often flies back and lands. The second stage does not.
People
Lots of people fly. Learn their names.
A company and some countries can go to space. Learn who is who, so the rocket and the people do not get mixed up.
On the SpaceX board
The next flight, and the ones right behind it
Crew-13 is the next one with people. The same day, other SpaceX rockets may fly with no one aboard. A time on this page can move.
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Crew-13
October 1, 2026 · 11:10 a.m. Eastern
Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Crew Dragon Grace. Four people to the space station. Already delayed from September.
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Transporter-18
October 1, 2026 · window opens 2:18 p.m. Eastern
Falcon 9 from California. Many small satellites share one rocket. No crew.
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Falcon Heavy · NROL-97
October 1, 2026 · 11:53 p.m. Eastern
Three cores from Kennedy Space Center. A classified payload. We do not guess what is inside.
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Starlink 15-25
About October 10, 2026 · time not set
Falcon 9 from California. A batch of internet satellites, not a crew flight. Delayed once already.
spacex.com/webcast (opens in a new tab)NASA commercial crew (opens in a new tab)SpaceX on X (opens in a new tab)
We checked this in September 2026.. Not a live countdown.
SpaceX, in four machines
Dragon
The capsule on top. Crew Dragon carries people. Another Dragon carries supplies. Grace is the Crew-13 ship. The rocket is not the capsule.
Falcon Heavy
Three Falcon cores strapped together, for a heavier load. The side cores can land. The center core is sometimes used up on purpose.
Starship
A different, much larger vehicle. Still in flight test. On September 28, 2026 it reached orbit, let satellites go, then came down early after an engine problem. Not a Moon bus yet.
Agencies and companies
United States agency
NASA
NASA is the United States space agency. It sends people, robots, and telescopes. Artemis is its Moon plan. The space station is a big part of its work with other countries.
April 2026: four people flew around the Moon. They did not land. The landing is still a later mission.
United States company
SpaceX
SpaceX builds rockets and flies them often. Falcon 9 carries satellites, cargo, and sometimes people. The bottom of Falcon 9 often lands so it can fly again. Dragon is the capsule. Starship is a much bigger rocket that is still being tested.
Watch them only at spacex.com/webcast or their own posts. A channel named “SpaceX live” is not them.
European agency
ESA
ESA is the European space agency. Many countries share it. They fly science ships, use Ariane rockets, and send astronauts to the space station.
A European astronaut on a NASA or SpaceX flight is still an ESA astronaut.
Canada’s agency
Canadian Space Agency
Canada builds robot arms that move things outside the station. A Canadian astronaut flew around the Moon on Artemis II. Another is assigned to Crew-13.
Canada did not build SLS. It sent a person on the flyby, and that matters.
Japan’s agency
JAXA
JAXA is Japan’s space agency. Japan has sent cargo ships and astronauts to the station, and it shares science missions with other countries.
A shared mission has more than one owner. Read both pages if both names are on the rocket.
More countries fly
Roscosmos, ISRO, and others
Russia still flies people and cargo to the space station. India has sent robots to the Moon and is working on its own crew flight. China has its own station. This site cannot be all of them, and it is none of them.
No single country owns spaceflight anymore. The station is the proof.