Liftoff is scheduled for 8:34 p.m. ET tonight (Jan. 29).

SpaceX on Wednesday night launched a Spanish communications satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and retired the first-stage booster rather than landing on a drone.

The SpainSat NG-1 satellite launched right on time at 8:34 p.m. from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A. The rocket rumbled as it headed on an eastern trajectory. Just over eight minutes into the flight, the second-stage and satellite were safely in Earth orbit, headed for its final position and altitude.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Tuesday evening, vowing vow to bring the NASA pilots home after being stranded in space since the summer.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams embarked on a mission to the International Space Station in 2024 with a timeline that has been anything but straightforward.

NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX are racing to bring back astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded on the ISS due to Boeing Starliner delays.

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

A spokesperson with NASA, which oversees SpaceX’s flights to the ISS, said “NASA and SpaceX are expeditiously working to safely return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore as soon as practical, while also preparing for the launch of Crew-10 to complete a handover between expeditions.”

Check back for live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team launch updates on this page, starting about 90 minutes before today’s launch window opens.

Depending on weather and cloud cover, rocket launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral, Florida, can be seen from Daytona Beach to Melbourne to Vero Beach.

Trump said he had asked Elon Musk's SpaceX to return two NASA astronauts from the International Space Station, who were already scheduled to fly back on a SpaceX capsule in March.