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12:05am, 12th April, 2019

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches its first commercial payload — then aces a triple landing

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida. (SpaceX via YouTube) More than a year after SpaceX , the second Falcon Heavy put a satellite in orbit today for its first customer. Then, for the first...

11:02pm, 11th April, 2019

Space

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches its first commercial payload, then aces a triple landing

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida. (SpaceX via YouTube) More than a year after SpaceX , the second Falcon Heavy put a satellite in orbit today for its first customer. Then, for the first...

6:46pm, 11th April, 2019

Space

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches Arabsat-6A as its first commercial payload

The Falcon Heavy central core booster lands on a drone ship stationed hundreds of miles out in the Atlantic Ocean. (Via SpaceX live stream) More than a year after SpaceX sent its Falcon Heavy rocket on a majestic test launch, the second Falcon Heavy...

NASA considers shifting a key test flight beyond the moon to commercial rockets

11:55am, 13th March, 2019

Space

NASA considers shifting a key test flight beyond the moon to commercial rockets

An artist’s conception shows NASA’s Orion deep-space crew capsule with its European Service Module placed beneath it and an upper stage powering it out of Earth orbit. (NASA Illustration) NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told a Senate hearing today...

NASA lays out its commercial roadmap for putting astronauts on the moon in 2028

1:58pm, 15th February, 2019

Space

NASA lays out its commercial roadmap for putting astronauts on the moon in 2028

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine discusses the space agency’s plan to support the development of commercial hardware capable of landing astronauts on the moon. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA’s leaders put out their pitch toda...

10:33pm, 13th February, 2019

Space

NASA’s deputy chief echoes JFK in a pitch for commercial space ventures

NASA Deputy Administrator James Morhard, at left, receives congratulations from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine after a swearing-in ceremony last October. (NASA Photo / Joel Kowsky) WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA’s No. 2 official channeled President John...

Virgin Galactic’s pilots get first commercial astronaut wings awarded in 15 years

6:28pm, 7th February, 2019

Space

Virgin Galactic’s pilots get first commercial astronaut wings awarded in 15 years

Wearing their astronaut wings, SpaceShipTwo test pilots Rick Sturckow and Mark Stucky face the cameras as Virgin Galactic’s billionaire founder, Richard Branson, flashes a thumbs-up sign. (Virgin Galactic Photo) Two Virgin Galactic test pilots are no...

11:47pm, 26th June, 2018

Space

Why SpaceX and Boeing can sell spots on commercial space taxis to private travelers

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams wears a SpaceX spacesuit as she sits in a mockup for a Crew Dragon spaceship. (SpaceX Photo) RENTON, Wash. — When NASA’s Phil McAlister worked out the contracts with SpaceX and Boeing to ferry astronauts to and from the...

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches its first commercial payload — then aces a triple landing

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches its first commercial payload, then aces a triple landing

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches Arabsat-6A as its first commercial payload

NASA considers shifting a key test flight beyond the moon to commercial rockets

NASA lays out its commercial roadmap for putting astronauts on the moon in 2028

NASA’s deputy chief echoes JFK in a pitch for commercial space ventures

Virgin Galactic’s pilots get first commercial astronaut wings awarded in 15 years

Why SpaceX and Boeing can sell spots on commercial space taxis to private travelers

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