Bureaucracy Pins Rocket to Earth
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The da Vinci Project, a Toronto group planning to launch a homemade, manned spacecraft in October, is having trouble getting its paperwork off the ground. Canadian regulators are leery of approving the launch. And then there's the matter of finding insurance. By Dan Brekke.
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How NASA turned to Americaâs basement brainstormers, workbench concocters and garage tinkerers to revive the space program.
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LOS ANGELES -- The historic suborbital flights of SpaceShipOne have ignited interest in space tourism, but the budding industry and federal regulators must still resolve questions ranging from ensuring the safety of people on the ground to informing
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By Mike Schneider Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- This has been a weird year for the U.S. space agency, more notable for contributing a story line for the TV series "Law & Order" than for spaceflight.
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It's the year 2020, and space has never been so busy. Picture this:In Earth orbit, a robotic maintenance ship skitters from one weather satellite to another, upgrading powerful optics that help meteorologists track dangerous storms.
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico  - A rocket   packed with cargo is set to blast off into space from a desert   launch range in New Mexico, ushering in what its backers say is   a new era of cheap public access to the stars.
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A rocket lifted off Friday from this French department in South America carrying satellites to provide broadband Internet services to rural parts of the U.S. and television programming to people across the hemisphere.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.
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LOS ANGELES -- Just a few years ago, the idea of bankrolling starry-eyed ventures to fly ordinary people into space was laughed off as science fiction.
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With two short trips to the edge of space, the little rocket that could may have ushered in a new era in high-tech travel.
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Europe's "super rocket" which can lift multiple and heavier satellites into orbit prepares for its first trip to space.
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By measuring variations in satellite orbits, scientists have found the first direct evidence of one of the hallowed tenets of Albert Einstein&#39;s theory of general relativity -- that the Earth
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The designers of the first privately manned rocket to burst into space were handed a &#36;10 million check Saturday, a prize designed to encourage technology that will open the heavens to tourists.
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Floating free above Earth and carrying out an experiment in space has long been the preserve of orbiting travelers, but at taxpayer's expense.
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The advent of space tourism is one step closer with the safe return this week of a private manned rocketship from âthe edge of spaceâ.
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NASAâs Genesis spacecraft performed a critical trajectory maneuver September 6, putting it on a precise course for plunging into Earthâs atmosphere and fireballing its way toward the Air Force&#39;s Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR), southwest of Salt
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A stubby private rocket plane blasted through the Earth&#39;s atmosphere and into the history books on Monday, capturing a $10 million prize aimed at opening the final frontier to tourists.