Posted 05.31.2012
UPDATE: The capsule's successful splashdown was confirmed at 11:42 EDT. by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor Date: 31 May 2012 ...
Posted 05.30.2012
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...
William Bradley | Posted 05.30.2012
For all the Star Wars and Star Trek resonances in this mission, Robert Heinlein's The Man Who Sold the Moon seems a better fictional precursor.
The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 05.26.2012
Elon Musk's spacecraft manufacturing company SpaceX made history today at 9:56 a.m. ET, when its Dragon capsule was captured by the International Spac...
The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 05.25.2012
UPDATE: The Dragon capsule was successfully captured at 9:56 a.m. EDT by NASA astronaut Don Pettit, using the International Space Station's (ISS) robo...
Posted 05.24.2012
By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/24/2012 06:56 AM EDT on SPACE.com This story was updated at 8:10 a.m. EDT. A private spaceship on its first t...
Posted 05.23.2012
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/22/2012 12:43 PM EDT on SPACE.com The private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully launched an unmanned cap...
Posted 05.22.2012
By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/22/2012 08:15 AM EDT on SPACE.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scotty has finally been beamed up. The ashes of the...
Alejandro Rojas | Posted 05.22.2012
Recently, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told 60 Minutes that the reason he seeks to develop spacecraft is to save humanity itself.
Anna Leahy | Posted 05.22.2012
Spaceflight is hard. Really hard. And that's one reason that we bother going to space at all.
The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 05.22.2012
Second time's a charm. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station early Tuesday morning, carrying the Dragon caps...
Posted 05.22.2012
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral early Tuesday morning. The 3:44 a.m. launch followed numerous technical delays, includin...
Posted 05.21.2012
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...
Posted 05.20.2012
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...
AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 05.19.2012
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground Saturday after rocket engine t...
AOL | Posted 05.18.2012
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk discusses his company, SpaceX, and the future of private space travel. In 2002, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologie...
AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 05.18.2012
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run thi...
Posted 05.14.2012
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...
Posted 05.07.2012
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...
Posted 04.30.2012
By: Mike Wall Published: 04/30/2012 06:26 AM EDT on SPACE.com Blue Origin wants to fly under the radar all the way into space. The secretive pr...
AP | Posted 04.24.2012
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A private U.S. company has delayed launching a cargo ship to the International Space Station. Space Exploration Technologies ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 04.20.2012
Remember that movie "Armageddon"? Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck travel to space to drill into an asteroid and break it apart before it collides with Ea...
Posted 04.17.2012
By: Mike Wall Published: 04/16/2012 06:30 PM EDT on SPACE.com A private spaceship mission to the International Space Station is on track for a pla...
Ayodele Faiyetole | Posted 04.11.2012
While visiting San Francisco awhile back, Yuki Takahashi was away at the South Pole working on a telescope for his Ph.D. He remotely organized for me ...
Anna Leahy | Posted 05.31.2012