Hot Rocket Planes From the X Prize Cup Showcase
The X Prize Cup, an annual rocket race and showcase set to touch down every October in Las Cruces, New Mexico, held its inaugural gathering on October 9. Founder Peter Diamandis, whose X Prize...
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XCOR Unveils Suborbital Space Vehicle
The Lynx suborbital space vehicleMike Massee/XCORToday in Los Angeles, a private space company unveiled the latest entrant in the race to send paying passengers into suborbital space.The Lynx, in...
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In 2010, The Civilian Space Industry Finally Takes Off
For a traveler heading up the highway toward the Mojave Air and Space Port, in the desert 70 miles north of Los Angeles, the surroundings are ghostly. Silent 747s and DC-10 jumbo jets from defunct...
View ArticleRanking the Players In the Private Race to Space
The bustling private-space industry is full of big-dreaming, thrifty innovators. Here we've ranked 15 of the most serious contenders in order of their progress toward the goal of bringing cargo and...
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Space Tourists Won't Be the Only Ones Riding New Generation of Suborbital...
Suborbital Sciencecourtesy NASADr. Marsh Cuttino (left) practices inserting an endotracheal breathing tube on a METI Human Simulator in microgravity aboard the NASA KC-135 Parabolic aircraft.Scientists...
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Scientists Book Trips Aboard Private Spaceships, In An Industry First
SpaceShipTwoCourtesy Virgin GalacticThe commercial space industry has booked its first science expeditions, the Southwest Research Institute announced today. At least two researchers have tickets to...
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Is the Ending of the Shuttle Program a Setback for Space Science, Or a New...
Blue Origin's GoddardBlue OriginThe Goddard capsule, a test vehicle in Blue Origin's New Shepard program, heads back to the barn after its first test flight.Besides amateur camera-balloons, it's pretty...
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NASA Picks Seven Commercial Spaceships for the Next Generation of Suborbital...
SpaceShipTwoCourtesy Virgin GalacticThe 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...
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Mars One Fundraiser Offers Round Trip To Space
Model of an XCOR Lynx. The suborbital spaceship has not been completed.Branko CollinWith a dollar, a bit of luck, and lot of faith that space-colonization nonprofit Mars One will realize its long-term...
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DARPA Space Plane Concepts Get Fresh Funding
DARPA XS-1 Concept ArtDARPASpace isn't so much hard as it is expensive. Humans have put objects into space with rockets since Sputnik in 1957, but rockets are still largely a one-off proposition, a...
View ArticleHot 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...
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XCOR 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...
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In 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...
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Ranking 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...
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Space 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...
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Scientists 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...
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Is 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...
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NASA 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...
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Mars 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...
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DARPA 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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