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It's a sight no one has seen in nearly a decade: A rocket carrying NASA astronauts launching from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.

If the skies are clear this evening (May 30), observers across the central and northern United States and southern Canada could get an opportunity to see Crew Dragon move across their local skies.

On 30 May, SpaceX and NASA pulled off a historic launch – the first private spacecraft to take astronauts into orbit, and the first crewed launch from US soil in 9 years

SpaceX successfully launched its first crewed mission for NASA today (May 30). See live coverage of the Demo-2 mission as NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley head to the space station.

SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule launched from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center today (May 30), ending a nine-year orbital human spaceflight drought for the United States.

SpaceX's Demo-2 mission will attempt to launch its first crewed mission for NASA no earlier than Saturday, May 30, at 3:22 p.m. EDT (1922 GMT) after bad weather thwarted its first liftoff attempt.

Florida doesn't seem far from the International Space Station in this photo an orbiting astronaut snapped of NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Veteran NASA astronauts set out to make history with SpaceX's Demo-2 mission.

The weirdness of our solar system's first known interstellar visitor stems from a very unusual composition, a new study suggests.

SpaceX will take another crack at its first crewed mission today (May 30), and you can watch the historic liftoff live.