The ISS will travel over part of the U.S. and Canada on Thursday night, giving millions a chance to view it as it flies by.

Here’s what’s launching from July 28 to August 3: a cutting‑edge Earth‑observation mission joins a crewed flight to the International Space Station, flanked by eight other commercial and international launches.

SpaceX has rolled out the Falcon 9 rocket mounted with the Dragon spacecraft that will carry NASA 's next crew rotation mission - Crew-11. The mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is targeted for liftoff at 9:39 pm IST on July 31 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center with four astronauts.

NASA officials remain eager for Starliner to begin these regular crew rotation flights, even as its sole destination, the ISS, enters its sunset years. NASA and its international partners plan to decommission and scuttle the space station in 2030 and 2031, more than 30 years after the launch of the lab's first module.

Growing plants in space is no longer a distant dream. Scientists and astronauts have been experimenting with growing plants in orbit. NASA astronaut S

The four members of SpaceX's Crew-10 mission on the Expedition 73 crew began packing for home, while also calling down to Earth to share their ongoing work aboard the ISS.