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
Sep 29, 2010
"Will there soon be another human destination in low Earth orbit, or is this a redundant pipe dream? Two Russian-based companies hope to build the first-ever commercial space station, named, fittingly, Commercial Space Station (CSS)."
Sep 21, 2010
"Last week Boeing and Space Adventures announced an agreement to market seats on Boeing's proposed commercial crew capsule to private customers, aka "space tourists". That deal, Jeff Foust reports, may also play a role in influencing the ongoing debate about commercial crew programs on Capitol Hill."
Sep 20, 2010
"SpaceX Corporation is rapidly ramping up pre-launch operations for the first blast off of an operational Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 booster at their Atlantic coast launch pad at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida."
Sep 16, 2010
"Boeing said Wednesday that it was entering the space tourism business, an announcement that could bolster the Obama administration's efforts to transform the National Aeronautics and Space Administration into an agency that focuses less on building rockets and more on nurturing a commercial space industry."
Sep 15, 2010
"Virgin Galactic has released a new video that gives insight into their vehicles and company operations, and a look at what the experience will be like to fly on the world's first commercial spaceline."
Sep 14, 2010
"The supply of new spacecraft, launchers, and spaceports may soon exceed the demand."
Sep 3, 2010
"The next few years will see at least two new commercial spacecraft put into orbit."
Aug 28, 2010
"Aerospace juggernaut Boeing is taking cues from the past and using previous experience in developing their new capsule-based spaceship to fly people to and from the International Space Station and future private space stations."
Aug 27, 2010
"NASA reassured commercial space firms that it will be a supportive customer for privately built space taxis."
Aug 26, 2010
"The private company has taken another step toward carrying astronauts to the International Space Station."
