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DARPA Space Plane Concepts Get Fresh Funding
An ambitious idea to make space launches cheap and dull
Unveiled: Burt Rutan’s Final Creation Is A Flying Car
Aerospace innovator retired in April, but not before designing a new roadable aircraft
Construction Begins on America’s First Commercial Spaceship Factory
Who says America isn’t a manufacturing economy anymore? The country has already dedicated her first commercial spaceport, and yesterday construction … Continued
Video: Virgin Galactic’s Enterprise Makes Maiden Manned Flight
Virgin Galactic’s space plane made its first manned glide flight on 10/10/10, proving the spaceship’s airworthiness and further paving the … Continued
Ranking the Players In the Private Race to Space
Who's on top? Find out in our subjective ranking of the crowded field of competitors gunning for space
A Look Inside Virgin Galactic’s Flight Training
Would-be astronauts train for the world’s first suborbital space tourism flight
Hot Rocket Planes From the X Prize Cup Showcase
While the rocket races will have to wait a year, inventors showed off plenty of private space technology at this year's X Prize Cup showcase
On Sale Soon: Plane Rides to Nowhere
New space airline Virgin Galactic books X Prize technology
Two More Steps to Space
An independent designer pulls the sheet off his top-secret manned spaceplane program. Can he spark the 21st-century space tourism revolution?