Commercial Space

Hoping Forward At The End Of The Shuttle Era

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. -- The last space shuttle mission, STS-135, ended with the landing of the shuttle Atlantis at…

13 years ago

ULA Inks Deal With NASA To Study Man-Rating Atlas V

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. -- NASA is looking for a few good rockets – that's right, plural. While it continues…

13 years ago

One on One with SpaceX’s Garrett Reisman

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. – Garrett Reisman knows a thing or two about what it takes to send astronauts to…

13 years ago

Return of the Capsule

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. – As Florida’s Space Coast braces for the end of the shuttle program this month, signs…

13 years ago

XCOR Lynx Slated to Fly New Suborbital Telescope

[/caption] Commercial space company XCOR Aerospace has signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” with the Planetary Science Institute, laying the groundwork…

13 years ago

SpaceX Seeking Tweets From The Final Frontier

[/caption] Space Exploration Technologies -- or SpaceX as they are more commonly known -- has gotten pretty good at launching…

13 years ago

Burt Rutan’s Race To Space: A Primer For Things To Come

[/caption] Voyager, Proteus and SpaceShipOne have become aerospace legends. As has the man who established them all – Burt Rutan.…

13 years ago

Copenhagen Suborbitals Upcoming Launch Attempt in June

[/caption] Copenhagen Suborbitals hopes to launch the world’s first amateur-built rocket for human space travel and have announced an upcoming…

13 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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"…

14 years ago