Commercial Space
UK and European Space Agencies Give a Go For Skylon Spaceplane
After 30 years of development, the UK and European space agencies have given a go for the Skylon Spaceplane. The…
Watch SpaceShipTwo’s First Feathered Flight
On May 4, 2011 Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo achieved a major milestone by flying for the first time using its "feathered"…
Space Adventures Wants to Fly You to the Moon
[/caption] Space Adventures – the company that brought the first space tourists to the International Space Station – has longer…
Elon Musk: “Why the US Can Beat China”
[/caption] “Whenever someone proposes to do something that has never been done before, there will always be skeptics,” says SpaceX…
SpaceShipTwo Successfully Tests “Feathered” Flight
[/caption] Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo achieved a major milestone early Wednesday 4th May 2011, as it successfully demonstrated its unique reentry…
Behind the Scenes at SpaceX’s Space Launch Complex 40
[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) took members of the media on a tour of Launch Complex 40,…
Russia Has Concerns for SpaceX Safety for Docking to ISS
[/caption] While a test of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft docking capabilities with the International Space Station is tentatively scheduled for December,…
NASA Announces Awardees of CCDev2
[/caption] NASA has announced the winners of the four second-round agreements under the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) program. These companies…
NASA Avoids Accountant’s Axe
[/caption] With the US's attention firmly focused on the budget with calls to cut spending in every possible non-essential programs,…
Iridium Next Prepares to Ride the Falcon
[/caption] To date, Iridium NEXT is the largest commercial space launch contract with any single entity. All total, the contract…