Mike Wall

"A celebration so bright it reached all the way to space!" The U.S. just celebrated its 250th birthday, and Americans living off the planet had a great view of some of the parties down below.

Liftoff is scheduled for 5:25 a.m. ET on Thursday (July 9). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch for a record-breaking 36th time early Thursday morning (July 9), and you can watch the action live.

And each of the new "Gen3" spacecraft will weigh about 4,400 pounds. SpaceX is nothing if not ambitious.

And China plans to refly the booster by the end of the year.

And China plans to refly the booster by the end of the year. China just notched a huge spaceflight milestone.

Thirty-five flights is just one off the SpaceX reuse record.

Mike Wall A SpaceX rocket just inched closer to the record books. A Falcon 9 vehicle lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California tonight (July 10) at 11:01 p.m.

"We're excited to demonstrate how our technology works and to introduce transformative, clean technology the world urgently needs."

The first of perhaps tens of thousands of sunlight-directing space mirrors just got cleared for liftoff.

Liftoff is scheduled for 10:47 a.m. ET. Three people will launch toward the International Space Station on Tuesday (July 14), and you can watch the action live.