Scrub recap: Live updates from the Falcon 9 mission which scrubbed upon liftoff early Saturday, December 21. SpaceX planned to ring in the weekend with the 91st launch of the year from the Space Coast − however, SpaceX launch director could be heard calling "abort!" right upon liftoff. The rocket's nine engines fired, but nothing happened.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignites each its engines just as an abort is called at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2024. This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in extinction.