commercial spaceflight

SpaceX Commercial Rocket Poised for March 1 Blast Off to ISS

Kennedy Space Center - All systems are GO and the weather outlook looks spectacular for the March 1 blast off…

12 years ago

A Banner Week for Commercial Spaceflight

[/caption] While SpaceX stole the headlines with their Dragon spacecraft making the first private cargo run to the International Space…

12 years ago

Repaired SpaceX Rocket Set for 2nd Blastoff Try on May 22

[/caption] SpaceX engineers have successfully replaced a faulty valve in a first stage engine that triggered a launch abort on…

13 years ago

NanoRacks and CASIS Put Research on the Universe’s Front Porch

[/caption] The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) has opened part of the ISS exterior to research…

13 years ago

SpaceX’s Dragon, Now With Seating for Seven

[/caption] So much for the idea that space capsules are cramped and can only carry a limited crew. SpaceX revealed…

13 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

NASA Funds Experimental “Near Space” Vehicles

[/caption] Commercial space companies Armadillo Aerospace and Masten Space Systems have been awarded a total of $475,000 to perform test…

14 years ago