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
Jul 21, 2010
The Virgin Galactic suborbital spaceship could make its first independent flight soon as this fall.
Jul 20, 2010
"Aerospace heavyweight Boeing is advancing plans for its new capsule-based spaceship, designed to ferry people to and from the International Space Station and future private space stations."
Jul 20, 2010
The story includes a video of the flight.
Jul 17, 2010
"A commercial spaceship owned by Virgin Galactic made its first flight with a crew onboard Thursday."
Jul 12, 2010
"Last week came word that Rocketplane has filed for bankruptcy, ending its long but ultimately unsuccessful effort to develop new suborbital and orbital launch vehicles. "
Jul 5, 2010
"As zero gravity vacations come of age, one family shares its weightless holiday experience aboard a Zero Gravity Corporation aircraft."
Jul 3, 2010
"A space scientist and father is taking his family on a zero gravity vacation this Fourth of July weekend as the realm of space tourism moves forward."
Jun 29, 2010
"After riding a flame into Earth orbit more than three weeks ago, the dormant upper stage of the first Falcon 9 rocket plunged back into the atmosphere Sunday."
Jun 25, 2010
"Twenty-one teams are hard at work trying to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon. "
Jun 21, 2010
"The achievement of Elon Musk's SpaceX launching Falcon 9 outshines recent efforts by Korea, India, and the United States. Sam Dinkin analyses the implications of this transition."
