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The mission, to study energy transfer in space, had a brilliant upshot for nighttime viewers. East Coasters saw the green and violet vapor clouds glowing above — and have the pictures to prove it.

It launched from Cape Canaveral in 2016.

The new plan is to begin undocking on Saturday at 8:35 p.m. EST and splashdown at 2:57 a.m. on Sunday. This will be the first time since 1962 that a splashdown will occur at night.

Lawmakers agreed to President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the space agency by consensus late Thursday, without a roll call vote.

The final piece of NASA’s next moon rocket was unloaded Thursday at Kennedy Space Center ahead of an uncrewed launch to the moon and back later this year.

It would prevent anyone who has recovered jettisoned capsule parts from selling the items on eBay.

It's the third flight of the Crew Dragon capsule since last May, and the first time an American capsule has been reused in decades. There are now more astronauts than beds on the space station.

The new arrivals — representing the U.S., France and Japan — will spend six months at the space station.

The company's third crewed spacecraft took off from Florida early Friday.

Four astronauts are set to launch to the space station Friday. When they arrive, the new crew of 11 will be the largest since the shuttle program, and there aren't enough sleeping pods for them all.

NASA is giving SpaceX the "go" to launch four astronauts from Kennedy Space Center later this week on its Crew Dragon capsule, but weather could delay those efforts.

The company beat out two others in its bid to develop a lunar lander that will bring Americans back to the moon in the coming years.