United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket is set to lift off Friday morning from Florida’s Space Coast for its final test flight needed for its certification process with the U.S. Space Force.

United Launch Alliance officials announced details for the upcoming Vulcan VC2S rocket scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Space Coast.

For the 16th and final time, a Delta IV Heavy rocket is ready for launch.

SpaceX hopes to launch Starship, Elon Musk’s holy grail for colonizing Mars and NASA’S lunar lander for the first astronauts to reach the surface of the moon since Apollo.

This was the first launch of United launch Alliance's new Vulcan Centaur rocket.

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The Vulcan rocket – which is set to replace ULA’s Atlas and Delta rockets – is carrying a Peregrine lunar lander to deliver scientific payloads to the lunar surface ahead of landing astronauts on the moon before 2030.

A new rocket was rolled out to the launch pad Friday for its first mission, and Vulcan Centaur isn't just going to orbit.

A NASA news conference precedes a ULA launch scheduled at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

United Launch Alliance is now targeting Christmas Eve to attempt to launch its new Vulcan Centaur rocket on an inaugural mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

United Launch Alliance started testing on the Vulcan Centaur rocket Friday from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, the space company’s CEO said in a tweet.

The newly assembled ULA launch platform for the Vulcan Centaur rocket made its first trip to the launch pad on Jan. 29, 2021. (Image: ULA)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – United Launch Alliance plans to launch a brand new rocket known as the Vulcan Centaur later this year from Cape Canaveral following years of development. ULA is modifying Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to support Vulcan rocket launches. Teams successfully tested out the new platform on its first trip to the launch pad where it will undergo further testing. Relativity Space is also targeting late this year to launch its Terran 1 3D-printed rocket and Blue Origin’s New Glenn will also be assembled and launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.