Facing unexpected pressure and the yawning void of the post-Shuttle era, the commercial space race has huge challenges ahead. In the wake of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin test failure, we look at the future of the industry. READ»
As NASA settles for a tried and trusted solution, Britain's plans for a next-gen Space Shuttle inch forward with the Skylon: A black, future-tech spaceplane that absolutely looks the part.READ»
OV-105, as Space Shuttle Endeavour is designated by NASA, is due to fly into space for the final time soon. Here's everything you need to know about this remarkable machine, which was put together from spare parts.READ»
Fifty years ago this month, a young Russian military pilot, standing just 5'2'' tall and wearing a comically over-sized helmet that would later become an icon, was strapped into a capsule atop the Vostok-1 rocket and fired into space. ...READ»
China's aggressive move suggests a shift in global space politics and the emergence of a whole new space race between Western private space companies and Eastern state-run ones.READ»
Yuri Gagarin is probably spinning in his grave faster than he ever spun in orbit: Russia's deputy prime-minister has denounced his nation's space agency for being "childish." Is it time for a U.S.-style commercial space industry in Russia?READ»
NASA has this week submitted its first proposal for the heavy-lift rocket it'll build to succeed the Space Shuttle. Among the science and political constraints, it sounds extremely sensible, with one hitch: NASA says it can't afford it.READ»
NASA just successfully launched a solar-sail satellite from another experimental micro-satellite. It will demonstrate how it can take itself out of the space debris equation--by burning itself up.READ»
Google backs some projects that may may make you blink, they're so odd--one of them is nevertheless so promising it's earned $1.18 billion in funding: It's a satellite network to bring Internet to the world's poor.READ»
Russia announced it will be investing $2 billion in a program to capture some of the thousands of pieces of dangerous debris that threaten the future of space technology. How might it work?READ»
Another starship Enterprise just undertook a bold new mission: This time it's Virgin Galactic's premier space vehicle, which has flown its first manned glide flight. It's another successful step on the road to tourists in space.READ»
The Science and Technology Chairman written has just written $1.2 billion for commercial rockets for astronauts into a new version of NASA's next funding bill. A new giant Shuttle-derived rocket is also ordered, to be ready within six years.READ»
NASA's about to fork over nearly half a million dollars to Armadillo and Masten under its Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program to help these new commercial companies reach the edge of space.READ»
NASA's revealed three projects that give us insight into some of its future plans: The watchwords are innovative, fast, new. Is NASA trying to shed its lumbering institutional ways?READ»
As SpaceX completes safety tests on its potential human space capsule, and a European outfit preps its innovative rocket for a test launch, it's obvious that some of the most exciting space news at the moment is coming from folks other than NASA.READ»
Space junk is a growing problem, and it's getting worse every single minute, with no consensus on how best to clean it up. Now there's at least a solution that's beautiful: The GOLD balloon.READ»
