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SpaceX, Dragon Capsule & Falcon 9: Latest News
Hawthorne, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is a commercial company aiming to launch cargo, and eventually people, to low-Earth orbit. The firm is developing its Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 booster under contracts from NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program and its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.
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A plane crash in California has killed three employees of Tesla Motors, the electric car venture led by private spaceflight pioneer Elon Musk, according to local news reports.
SDO on it's way, Falcon launch countdown, the colors of Pluto, head-on asteriod collision and cool images of craters on mars and the Orion Nebula.
All of the parts for SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket have arrived at launch site.
Astronaut and ATK manager Scott "Doc" Horowitz is deeply skeptical of small private commercial space companies chances of delivering and returning crews.
President Obama directs a "bold new approach that embraces the commercial space industry." But Lockheed Martin's John Karas defends big aerospace business as usual.
As the Obama White House prepares to weigh in on America's direction, SPACEX Founder Elon Musk responds point-by-point to a report critical of commercial space flight.
A commercial space pioneer and a former astronaut are answering claims by an independent advisory panel that private companies do not meet NASA human-rating standards.
The new Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX has passed its final engine test ahead of a planned launch debut this year.
The Top 9 Spaceflight Stories in 2009. 5 shuttle missions, a space program in transition and space tourism strides are just some of the top spaceflight stories of the year.
The spaceflight company SpaceX is aiming to launch its new space station cargo ship as early as May 2010.
Just hours after Virgin Galactic unveiled a gleaming new commercial spaceship Monday, hurricane-force winds bore down on the event.
Virgin Galactic unveiled its rocket plane today, planned to be the world’s first passenger-carrying commercial spacecraft.
A super-slick looking rocket plane showcased as the world’s first passenger-carrying commercial spacecraft is making its debut today.
SpaceShipTwo is generating high-altitude hope and a good dose of hype for public space travel, yet there are those who wave an advisory flag.
All is in readiness for next Monday’s unveiling of SpaceShipTwo – the first-class space tourist’s wonder machine at the core of the space tourism firm Virgin Galactic’s suborbital fleet.
SpaceX has requested a Feb. 2, 2010 launch date for the debut flight of its Falcon 9 rocket, a booster to launch cargo ships to the ISS.
It has been five years since SpaceShipOne screamed its way into the history books and the aftershocks from its suborbital space shots are still being felt.
SpaceX announced plans Thursday to launch a Dragon spaceship prototype atop its first Falcon 9 rocket.
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