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Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket will begin a series of tests at the pad in four or five weeks.
In preparation for the first official commercial cargo flight to the Space Station (full cargo load - first SpaceX flight to ISS was a test flight), the Falcon 9 Merlin engines were fired at full power for 2 seconds in a captive 'hold down' test.
Virgin Galactic showed off its passenger space plane in England in July 2012.
See photos of SpaceX's launch preparations for its first official cargo run to the space station.
Brightman will make an announcement with private space travel firm Space Adventures.
On Friday, September 21, 2012, SpaceX's Grasshopper vertical takeoff and landing test vehicle (VTVL) took its first test flight hop from the company's rocket testing facility in McGregor, Texas.
The Republican nominee says he'll secure the nation's leadership position in space.
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed a bill Friday (Sept. 21) to limit liability for private spaceflight companies.
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will make its first contracted supply run for NASA.
Canadian entrepreneur John Criswick hopes to fulfil a lifelong love of space.
SpaceX's robotic Dragon spacecraft will be making the first of 12 contracted cargo missions for NASA.
American Joe Acaba and Russians Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin had spent four months aboard the orbiting lab.
Joe Acaba, Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin had spent the last four months aboard the orbiting lab.
Joe Acaba, Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin have spent the last four months aboard the orbiting lab.
SpaceX should make its first contracted supply run to the space station for NASA this October.
NASA hopes to spur development of commercial spacecraft capable of ferrying cargo and crew to the space station.
The spaceflight firm's leaders talk about where Virgin Galactic hopes to go in the future.
On May 25th, 2012, the first commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station launched from Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Take a look back at the flight from lift-off to splashdown.
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