By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/17/2013 05:04 PM EDT on SPACE.com The organizers of a private plan to send two people on a round-trip flyby of M...
By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/16/2013 07:25 AM EDT on SPACE.com Legendary Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has signed on with a commercial lunar...
By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 04/22/2013 02:21 PM EDT on SPACE.com NEW YORK — If a one-way trip to Mars appeals to you, now's the time to apply...
By: Mike Wall Published: 04/22/2013 07:35 AM EDT on SPACE.com Good news for all you frugal travelers out there: A private startup's manned moon mi...
By: Rob Coppinger, SPACE.com Contributor Published: 04/02/2013 01:31 PM EDT on SPACE.com LONDON — A Swiss company has unveiled an ambitious pla...
By: Miriam Kramer Published: 03/01/2013 10:12 AM EST on SPACE.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately built unmanned spacecraft launched for NASA...
By Naveen Jain Entrepreneur and philanthropist Naveen Jain is a trustee of Singularity University and X Prize foundation and a Founder and Chairman of...
By: Miriam Kramer Published: 12/26/2012 04:05 PM EST on SPACE.com A privately built rocket prototype that could lead to a completely reusable spac...
There's good news and bad news for would-be astronauts out there. The good news is that Excalibur Almaz, a commercial aerospace company based on t...
By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/30/2012 11:37 AM EDT on SPACE.com After a more than a week in orbit, the private space capsule Dragon is prepa...
Spaceflight is hard. Really hard. And that's one reason that we bother going to space at all.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral early Tuesday morning. The 3:44 a.m. launch followed numerous technical delays, includin...
By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/20/2012 10:19 AM EDT on SPACE.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX engineers have replaced a faulty engine valv...
By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/19/2012 08:01 AM EDT on SPACE.com This story was updated at 6:15 p.m. EDT. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A failed...
By: Mike Wall Published: 05/18/2012 02:59 PM EDT on SPACE.com The private spaceflight company SpaceX is set to launch its Dragon capsule toward ...
After a series of delays, the long-awaited SpaceX-ISS mission is now scheduled for May 19. If all goes according to plan, the first privately fund...
By: Leonard David Published: 05/07/2012 06:25 AM EDT on SPACE.com The curtain of secrecy is being raised by Blue Origin, a private entrepreneuri...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A private U.S. company has delayed launching a cargo ship to the International Space Station. Space Exploration Technologies ...
Interested in a trip to Mars? It would be a grand adventure, and you'd have quite a story to tell if you made it back home in one piece. Still, there ...
When it comes to Mars exploration, the U.S. has been there, done that—with robotic rovers. But while many proposals have been put forth for send...
MOJAVE, Calif. -- A privately built rocket has made its first free-flight in the California desert as part of a NASA program exploring vertical landin...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — This year is key for Virgin Galactic's bid to become the first commercial spaceliner service, as rocket-powered flights of it...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first commercial cargo run to the International Space Station is off until spring. SpaceX planned to launch its unmanned ...
By: Denise Chow Published: 01/16/2012 02:40 PM EST on Space The first test flight of a privately built robot space capsule to the International S...
A return to the moon for NASA may be a distant goal as the organization works to find a replacement for the Space Shuttle orbiter. But some scientist...
