A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers slammed into the moon as predicted on Wednesday after drifting off course for the past year, scientists reported.
NASA's Mike Fincke identified himself Wednesday as the astronaut whose medical condition prompted the space agency's first medical evacuation.
"3... 2... 1... ignition. Engine full power. Liftoff. Go SpaceX. Go Starlink Falcon 9. Will you be my valentine?" the team said during liftoff. AIR7 caught a beautiful shot of the rocket lifting over the hills.
A new crew rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday to replace the astronauts who returned to Earth early in NASA's first medical evacuation.
An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA's first medical evacuation.
Only three people remain on the orbiting laboratory.