Space

Most US pilots probably don’t know that an FAA license is required to conduct any kind of commercial space launch or reentry within the United States. Last year, the agency office that issues these permits said it was busier than ever, with 41 commercial space operations launches and reentries. One launch in May, a SpaceX […]

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo last week completed its second successful test flight from Spaceport America in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico marking another important milestone toward the launch of Virgin Galactic’s commercial service. The company said in a news release that, Mark ‘Forger’ Stucky and Michael ‘Sooch’ Masucci, both commercial astronauts, commanded SpaceShipTwo Unity’s flight. The […]

The crewed SpaceX Dragon module positioned atop a Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, successfully launched on May 30, at 3:22 pm EDT. The crew, NASA veterans Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, completed docking with the International Space Station on May 31 at 10:29 am EDT and […]

The SpaceX launch of the crewed Dragon module atop a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 27, was scrubbed 17 minutes before ignition/light off because of severe weather in the area. The next window for the historic mission will be Saturday, May 30, at 3:22 pm EDT. Another window takes place the […]

The prospect of piloting a spacecraft through the edge of the atmosphere holds a sense of wonder for many with a passion for aviation. We now have the ability to come closer to a planned mission than ever: NASA has set the date for the historic launch of the crewed SpaceX mission utilizing the Dragon […]

NASA plans to uses the new Artemis program to land the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024 to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. Artemis is also the first manned mission away from earth in decades. Of course, being a piloted program, NASA realizes it’s going to need […]

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX inched one step closer to bringing astronauts to space this weekend as it completed a test of the in-flight launch escape capabilities of its Crew Dragon. The Crew Dragon test flight, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, atop SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, showed the spaceship’s “ability to separate from Falcon 9 and […]

Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) became the first space tourism company to be publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange Monday, October 28, following the completion of a merger with holding company Social Capital Hedosophia (SCH). The total SCH investment of $800 million adds to the $1 billion already invested in Virgin Galactic since it was […]