Private Spaceflight Archive
21 March 2013, 09:50 AM ET
A NASA technician inspects a transport model between wind tunnel tests at Langley.
15 March 2013, 09:55 AM ET
Plum Brook's lily pad area shown with the shrapnel shields removed.
12 March 2013, 07:31 AM ET
The moon maybe the perfect guide to spot Comet Pan-STARRS in the night sky on Tuesday night (March 12).
12 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Solar sailing holds promise for interstellar flight, though daunting challenges must be overcome.
11 March 2013, 05:05 PM ET
Is it PANSTARRS, PanSTARRS or Pan-STARRS?
07 March 2013, 11:11 AM ET
A science team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics wants to understand why you love cosmic photos.
06 March 2013, 04:35 PM ET
What is usually a two-day journey will be shortened to just six hours.
01 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The X-15 test program offers lessons for the emerging suborbital spaceflight industry.
01 March 2013, 12:05 AM ET
CubeSats could someday be used for cheap, high-risk missions.
28 February 2013, 06:05 PM ET
Made of interplanetary dust, the Zodiacal Light is a faint haze in the night sky.
28 February 2013, 02:36 PM ET
Already tested as a cargo carrier, the Dragon spacecraft can also be fitted out to shuttle passengers to low orbit and to the International Space Station.
28 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
A nonprofit group and two asteroid-mining companies are joining in.
28 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The Inspiration Mars Foundation is hoping to recruit a married couple for its 2018 manned Mars flyby mission.
27 February 2013, 06:00 AM ET
The fireball's parent body likely belongs to the Apollo class of Earth-crossing asteroids.
26 February 2013, 05:20 PM ET
More than 12,000 people signed a petition for a U.S. postage stamp to honor NASA's first Pluto probe.
26 February 2013, 09:05 AM ET
This rig was developed to train astronauts in how to gain control of a spacecraft moving in multiple directions at the same time.
25 February 2013, 12:00 PM ET
Vulcan pulls out the win in the Pluto Rocks competition.
22 February 2013, 01:49 PM ET
NASA's Messenger spacecraft is the first dedicated to orbiting Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet.
20 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Guinness World Records has honored Landsat 5's nearly 30 years in space.
20 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Astronomers at the University of Hawaii are building ATLAS to detect incoming space rocks.
19 February 2013, 05:26 PM ET
The NASA video clearly shows asteroid 2012 DA14 tumbling through space near Earth.
15 February 2013, 02:30 PM ET
2012 DA14's close approach came just hours after a fireball exploded high over Russia.
15 February 2013, 01:02 PM ET
Russian meteor explosion as strong as an earthquake.
15 February 2013, 11:23 AM ET
The meteor explosion over Russia earlier today was captured by a space satellite in orbit around Earth.
15 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The company aims to send manned expeditions to the moon by 2020.
