Douglas Messier is the managing editor of Parabolicarc.com, a daily online blog founded in 2007 that covers space tourism, space commercialization, human spaceflight and planetary exploration. Douglas earned a journalism degree from Rider University in New Jersey as well as a certificate in interdisciplinary space studies from the International Space University. He also earned a master's degree in science, technology and public policy from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. You can follow Douglas's latest project on Twitter and Parabolicarc.com.
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A stunning animation uses 20 years of results from environmental satellites to show seasonal and environmental changes to the surface of planet Earth.
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Before laying out his ambitious plan for humanity's future in space, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos had a bit of news to deliver during a gala dinner in Los Angeles Friday night.

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The Sierra Nevada Corp. is slowly but surely preparing its Dream Chaser space plane for orbital cargo flights, and the company hasn't given up on crewed flights either.

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The Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser space plane, which is scheduled to ferry cargo to the International Space Station by 2020, completed a critical test flight today.

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A small California company named NovaWurks is building satellites around its instruments, as a way to maximize the amount of scientific gear the spacecraft can carry.

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The aerospace company Boeing has a grand plan to build a space station near the moon that could serve to prepare astronaut to travel to Mars.

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Technologies that would service and refuel satellites in orbit are finally ready for demonstration, according to a panel of business and government experts.

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Artist's illustration showing the planned Stratolaunch system, which will launch satellites using a rocket carried into the sky by a giant airplane.

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NASA will launch a pair of tiny CubeSats toward the Red Planet in March 2016 to provide real-time landing coverage for the space agency's Mars InSight lander.

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Cubesats have pushed beyond the sphere of academia, becoming major tools for governments conducting a variety of missions and for companies earning revenues from space.

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An inside look at a recent space-startup competition in Silicon Valley.

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A look at Masten Space System's plans for the U.S. military's proposed Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) vehicle. Masten is one of three companies holding XS-1 design contracts.
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