Privatizing Spaceflight
The commercialization of space
Development of manned spacecraft financed by private business or individuals
The X-PRIZE for privately financed spaceflight
SpaceShipOne wins the X-Prize
The Virgin Galactic website
The Space Adventures website
The Rocketplane website
Starchaser Industries
The Blue Origin website
The XCOR website
The Armadillo Aerospace website
The private launch firm SpaceX
Bigelow Aerospace — the space hotel people
America's Space Prize for the development of a privately developed, reusable spacecraft capable of reaching earth orbit
Jun 10, 2011
"Virgin Galactic is pushing its private spaceliner SpaceShipTwo ever further on more ambitious test flights."
May 25, 2011
"The flight took place on May 4, 2011, and lasted 11 minutes and 5 seconds. It was a major milestone for the fledgling space company and their new vehicle."
May 21, 2011
"Virgin Galactic's plans for taking tourists into space have inched closer to fulfillment: earlier this month, the company's SpaceShipTwo successfully demonstrated the technique, called 'feathering,' that will allow the ship to reenter Earth's atmosphere."
May 14, 2011
"A new space business contest launching this summer is looking for ideas that are out of this world. Literally."
May 11, 2011
"Commercial space ventures appear to be moving forward on all fronts, with developments ranging from commercial crew funding to the testing of suborbital vehicles. However, Jeff Foust notes that some both in industry and Congress are skeptical of the long-term success of these efforts, in part because of past experience."
May 6, 2011
"Space Adventures is pushing the space tourism envelope one step further, with tourist trips around the moon."
May 5, 2011
"Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo tested its feathering system to be used during atmospheric re-entry."
May 5, 2011
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May 2, 2011
"where the NewSpace firm has successfully launched two of its Falcon 9 rockets and one of its Dragon spacecraft"
Apr 30, 2011
"On the eve of the penultimate space shuttle launch, a new wave of space exploration is surging forward."
