02 April 2020
Thousands Apply to Join NASA’s Artemis Generation, #BeAnAstronaut
.... After completing training, the new astronauts could launch on American rockets and spacecraft -- developed for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program -- to live and work aboard the International Space Station, 250 miles above Earth. There...
17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
...-1 is the first of six crewed missions that NASA and SpaceX will operate together as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Programme, a route that NASA foresees as a way to reduce the cost of going to space. As such the launch...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
... Technology (CGSTL). These developments, combined with expansion of the civil space industry more generally, placed China’s commercial space industry on the precipice of an historic decade as we entered the 2020s. Full-size display model of the core...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
...from objects in space that could obliterate life on Earth. All of the aforementioned activities bridge government and commercial interests. Several space resource companies have been created in the United States and, unsurprisingly, the US Government...
20 December 2019
Trouble for Starliner's inaugural flight as burn maneouver fails
Despite a text book launch today, the anticipated inaugural launch of Boeing's new Starliner capsule has run into trouble in orbit shortly after blast off. At 6:36 a.m. EST (1136 GMT) this morning, the reusable CST-100 Starliner capsule launched ...
17 January 2020
SpaceX's last critical test before crewed flights begin
If the critical in-flight test of the ship’s emergency escape system goes according to plan tomorrow, SpaceX will be on target to launch astronauts to the International Space Station later this year. In preparation of this last major milestone, ...
