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In a historic moment a decade in the making, the skies above Florida will light up on Wednesday when the launch of a rocket born from a groundbreaking public-private partnership returns the United States to the business of human spaceflight.

SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space transportation company, on Monday named its first private passenger on a voyage around the moon as Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, the founder and chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo.

The US private space transportation company SpaceX has announced a successful launch and landing of the Falcon 9 rocket, bringing a secret satellite of the US government into orbit.

A Falcon 9 rocket with a reusable first stage and ten Iridium communication satellites on board blasted off Friday from a site in California.

Elon Musk’s pet space project, SpaceX, launched a Falcon 9 rocket and its accompanying Dragon spacecraft on a cargo mission to the International Space Station on Monday.

SpaceX announced on Wednesday a successful deployment of a communication satellite to the Earth’s orbit after the launch was put off twice over a week.

A SpaceX Falcon rocket successfully launched a massive commercial communications satellite from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida

SpaceX said it will fly two people to the moon next year, a feat not attempted since NASA's Apollo heyday close to half a century ago. Tech billionaire Elon Musk — the company's founder — announced the surprising news. 

SpaceX is set to take off again on December 16, just three months after their Falcon 9 rocket violently exploded during a test run.

Private rocket firm SpaceX has applied for government permission to launch satellites that will provide global broadband internet access.