Private Spaceflight
New Plan For NASA Keeps Shuttles On The Job (For Now)
A NASA oversight committee has unanimously passed a plan to postpone the space shuttles' retirement and build a new U.S. launch system while helping to develop commercial space taxis.
SpaceX Nails Huge Commercial Launch Contract
Fresh off the successful debut flight of the Falcon 9 rocket, Space Exploration Technologies nailed a contract worth nearly $500 million to launch a network of communication satellites for Iridium.
SpaceX Falcon Rocket Flies
SpaceX, the darling of commercial space advocates and whipping boy of its foes, defied the odds Friday and sent a new rocket into orbit, a stunning achievement considering the company had to quickly recover from a trio of setbacks earlier ...
Obama Backtracks on NASA Capsule
Amid growing concern for the future of NASA's human spaceflight plans, the White House has announced a possible reprieve for the Constellation's Orion capsule.
U.S. Signs New Deal for Soyuz Flights
Russia is charging the United States $55.8 million a seat for six round-trip rides aboard its Soyuz capsules, currently the sole means for getting astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Under a new contract announced yesterday, NASA will ...
Shuttle to Launch 'Plug and Play' Micro-Labs on Space Station
Space research is changing and Discovery Space chats to Kris Kimel, President of Kentucky Space, a non-profit organization with orbital aspirations.
Private Spaceship Takes to Skies for First Test Flight
A small spaceship carrying the hopes of generation weaned on Star Trek took to the skies on
Monday for the first time in a test flight over California's Mojave Desert.
Test-Firing of SpaceX Falcon Rocket Aborted
There's flame in the trenches, but not the one Space Exploration Technologies was hoping for, as it counted down Tuesday afternoon to the first test-firing of its new Falcon 9 rocket. Two seconds before the rocket's nine motors were to ...
Falcon Rocket Rises
As shuttle Endeavour coasted through Central Florida’s balmy skies last night, what may become the astronauts’ next ride to space was poised on a launch pad a few miles away.
Over the weekend, Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, hoisted its first Falcon 9 rocket at a new launch complex just south of the Kennedy Space Center, where Endeavour touched down
NASA Ponies Up for Commercial Suborbital Space Rides
Even at $200,000 a ticket, the lines for a suborbital ride into space may soon be growing longer. The U.S. government is proposing to spend $75 million over the next five years to send science experiments -- and presumably scientists ...
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