Hot Rocket Planes From the X Prize Cup Showcase
Technology While the rocket races will have to wait a year, inventors showed off plenty of private space technology at this year's X Prize Cup showcase The X Prize Cup, an annual rocket race and...
View ArticleXCOR Unveils Suborbital Space Vehicle
Technology Introducing the Lynx, a two-seat rocket built for space tourism Today in Los Angeles, a private space company unveiled the latest entrant in the race to send paying passengers into...
View ArticleIn 2010, The Civilian Space Industry Finally Takes Off
Technology Who needs the space shuttle? Take a tour inside the private space industry and its innovative, efficient plans to get astronauts into space when NASA retires its old ride For a traveler...
View ArticleRanking the Players In the Private Race to Space
Technology Who's on top? Find out in our subjective ranking of the crowded field of competitors gunning for space The bustling private-space industry is full of big-dreaming, thrifty innovators. Here...
View ArticleSpace Tourists Won't Be the Only Ones Riding New Generation of Suborbital...
Technology Scientists half-jokingly call it the "ignorosphere" -- a region about 50-100 kilometers above the Earth that's too high for airplanes, but too low for satellites. "It earned… Scientists...
View ArticleScientists Book Trips Aboard Private Spaceships, In An Industry First
Science The commercial space industry has booked its first science expeditions, the Southwest Research Institute announced today. At least two researchers have tickets to fly on… The commercial space...
View ArticleIs the Ending of the Shuttle Program a Setback for Space Science, Or a New...
Science As spaceflight is privatized, scientists will pay for space trips alongside affluent adventurers Besides amateur camera-balloons, it's pretty difficult to get a viable science experiment into...
View ArticleNASA Picks Seven Commercial Spaceships for the Next Generation of Suborbital...
Technology The new post-shuttle NASA has said it aims to work more cooperatively with private space industry and outside sources of innovation in writing the next chapter in space… The new...
View ArticleMars One Fundraiser Offers Round Trip To Space
Technology Raffle winners get to go on a space jaunt -- with a return ticket. With a dollar, a bit of luck, and lot of faith that space-colonization nonprofit Mars One will realize its long-term...
View ArticleDARPA Space Plane Concepts Get Fresh Funding
Military An ambitious idea to make space launches cheap and dull Space isn't so much hard as it is expensive. Humans have put objects into space with rockets since Sputnik in 1957, but rockets are...
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