NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission heading to the International Space Station
Elon Musk calls “just wounds” on X early Thursday mornings “just wounds.” No injuries have been reported following the explosion at the Starbase facility in Texas. (Credit: labpadre via Storyfull)
Elon Musk’s SpaceX will launch an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission windows from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida will open at 12:09 PM ET.
“This flight is SpaceX’s 11th crew rotation mission to the station and the 12th human spaceflight under NASA’s commercial crew program,” NASA said. Blog post.
“The crew will fly on SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft that flew NASA’s SpaceX Demo Mission-2, Crew-2, Crew-6, and Crew-8.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and dragon spaceship sits on the pads of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center launch complex 39A prior to the launch of Axiom Space’s Axiom Mission on June 11, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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1. SpaceXCEO Elon Musk
When Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, its headquarters were in Hawthorn, California. Since then, the aerospace and defense company headquarters have moved to Starbase in southern Texas. The company has 13,000 employees and revenues in 2024 were $8.7 billion. According to Forbes.
It is currently the largest private company worth around $400 billion per report.
Musk believes the company will ultimately reach the planet Mars.
He also has a rivalry with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who owns the space company Blue Origin.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk will walk the stage during the T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event held in Bocachica Beach, Texas on August 25, 2022. The companies have announced plans to work together to provide T-Mobile Cellular Service using Starlink satellites. (Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images/Getty Images)
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2. InsideSpaceX
SpaceX takes pride in the work it did 23 years later. “Airports design, manufacture and launch advanced rockets and spacecraft” Global Data According to the website. The mission will be released through the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, Kennedy Air Force Base, and Vandenburg Air Force Base in California.
As of Wednesday afternoon, SpaceX website They say they have completed missions of 521, landings of 482 and refights of 448.
“Although most rockets are designed to burn out on re-entry, SpaceX Rockets can not only withstand re-entry, but they can also return to Earth and resurrect again.”
The support team worked with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Sniwilliams, Butchwillmore, and SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft shortly after landing on March 18, 2025 with Ros Cosmos Cosmon Alexun Dorgolbunov, who was mounted on board off the coast of Tallahas, Florida. (Keegan Barber/NASA via Getty Images)
3. Starlink
With astronauts, SpaceX launches satellites into space, enabling communities and travelers around the world to stay connected. The SpaceX division is the world’s first and largest satellite constellations using low Earth orbit, providing broadband internet that can support streaming, online gaming, video calls and more,” the website says.
This technology has been featured by travel businesses such as United Airlines. Carnival Corporation, Provide reliable Wi-Fi for customers both in the air and in the sea.
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Following natural disasters like Hurricane Milton in October 2024, Starlink kits have been activated Provides cell satellites We provide services in cooperation with telephone carriers. Musk also deployed satellites over Ukraine amid the war with Russia.
Starlink Internet is now available to all Carnival Corporation ships around the world. (Carnival Corporation/Fox News)
4. Success comes with failure
Not all SpaceX missions are successful.
Last month, SpaceX’s The spaceship exploded, I sent massive fireballs into the sky from Texas and got caught up in several live streams.
Falcon 9, a “reusable two-stage rocket” used for Thursday’s planned launch, suffered from “liquid oxygen leaks.” July 2024, The Merlin vacuum engine experiences an “abnormality” and the satellite is lost.
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5. Trump, government subsidies and contracts
President Donald Trump I attended the SpaceX release last May. This was because he and Musk had spent quite a bit of time in the White House, so he was the head of the Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE) before a brief exit.
President Donald Trump says goodbye to the crowd after NASA commercial crew astronauts Doug Harley (L) and Bob Benken attend a rally gathering after explosions from the historic launch complex. (Jonathan Newton/Washington Post by Getty Images)
Following the official fallout between Musk and Trump, the spotlight has shone on the government funding that mask companies have received over the years.
Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump heard questions from a reporter from the White House’s Oval Office in Washington, DC on May 30, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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SpaceX, a key NASA and Space Force contractor, has received at least $1 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits annually from 2021 to 2024 since 2016. Previously reported.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the payload of 24 Starlink Internet satellites, will soar into space after it was launched on July 18, 2025 by the Vandenberg Space Force Base, seen from Santee, California. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
Eric Revell from Fox Business contributed to this report.