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Space Tourism: The Latest News, Features and Photos
Learn the latest news about space tourism and space tourist trips into outer space. SPACE.com looks at the growing business of space tourism.
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Get to know the California-based private spaceflight company SpaceX.
See photos from SpaceX's second unmanned cargo flight to the International Space Station in March 2013.
Weather concerns pushed the Dragon capsule's homecoming back one day.
Private companies and nonprofit organizations are planning deep space missions to the moon, asteroids and even Mars.
The Merlin 1D has achieved flight qualification status, the company announced Wednesday.
Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket will loft a simulated payload to an altitude of about 155 miles.
Grasshopper reached an altitude of 263 feet before returning to Earth in a soft landing.
Video game moguls are pouring their fortunes into private space projects.
The rocket made its highest leap to date, 262.8 feet/80.1 meters, and landed safely on March 7th, 2013. Set to 'Ring of Fire' by Johnny Cash. Video courtesy of SpaceX
The last piece of cargo was unloaded from the Dragon space capsule today.
The Dragon capsule brought many new science experiments to the space station.
Elon Musk has tussled with the New York Times and some balky spacecraft thrusters in the past few weeks.
The unmanned Dragon space capsule linked up with the International Space Station early Sunday (March 3).
The SpaceX CRS-2 mission was successfully berthed to the International Space Station, 2 days after launch from Kennedy Space Center on March 3, 2013. The SpaceX team resolved thruster pod issues that caused a delay of the docking by one day.
The spacecraft was captured by the space station's robotic arm
SpaceX's Dragon space capsule will be captured by the space station's robot arm at 6:01 a.m. EST (1101 GMT).
Stargazers in the Southern Hemisphere have a chance of spotting SpaceX's private Dragon capsule chasing the space station.
Exploring the final frontier has always been a tough proposition.
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