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EDITORIAL: Toward a new frontier?

Some observers feel SpaceX, with its Falcon 9 rocket, might be just the answer in succeeding the space shuttles till NASA can develop the sort of rocket ...
Sun, Dec 27 | from Waco Tribune Herald

The Commercial Space Race Heats Up

The man in the vanguard of this push is one Elon Musk – the PayPal multimillionaire – who now heads SpaceX. The California company won the NASA contract to ...
Mon, Dec 21 | from True

SpaceX trains NASA astronauts in use of Dragon cargo ship

Space Fellowship The first test flight of a Dragon is scheduled to take place in early 2010 on board of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The astronauts in the SpaceX ... SpaceX Conducts NASA TrainingsocalTech.com all 25 news articles »
Fri, Dec 4 | from Examiner.com

Astronauts start training on SpaceX craft

Space Fellowship Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) released details and photos Thursday its first Dragon spacecraft operations training for a group of NASA astronauts ... SpaceX trains its first batch of NASA astronautsOrlando Sentinel Space News all 23 news articles »
Thu, Dec 3 | from blog.seattlepi.com

From Fulton to Falcon

The SpaceX Falcon, Armadillo's lunar lander, and Bigelow's Genesis modules have been produced through design iterations. Virgin Galactic's efforts are ...
Sun, Nov 29 | from The Space Review

Late afternoon/early evening open thread - Daily Kos

Late afternoon/early evening open thread blog) by SusanG In Interview with Elon Musk, DarkSyde discussed technology, innovation, space exploration and energy with Musk, who cofounded PayPal, SpaceX and ...
Mon, Nov 9 | from Daily Kos

Opinion: Augustine's questionable adjective

SpaceX, which is by far the best positioned of these new firms, has so far only launched two of its Falcon 1 rockets. This is impressive, but it is not ...
Mon, Nov 9 | from The Space Review

Space markets post strong growth, defy economic crisis

The Cape, however, is preparing for the new commercial ELV activity that SpaceX will bring starting in 2010 with its Falcon launcher. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk ...
Sat, Nov 7 | from Spaceflight Now

Tumlinson Seeks to Boost Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport for Commercial Launches

Advancing human spaceflight from the Eastern Shore of Virginia may be challenging but the facility is being recognized among the niche commercial spaceflight community. The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport is the location for the launch of the Orbital Sciences Corporation Taurus-I...
Wed, Sep 9 | from Spaceports

Arianespace Offers Ariane-5 for NASA Astronauts

Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall [video] told the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee last week (Aug. 5) that the Ariane 5 booster (Europe's premier rocket booster) is available to support the future of U.S. space exploration, including cargo resupply flights for the International Sp...
Tue, Aug 11 | from Spaceports

Opinion: Cheap access to space: lessons from past breakthroughs

MD Even the recent success of SpaceX has only replicated the state-of-the-art orbit-capable rocket. This lack of progress certainly does not appear to be due to lack of funds. Many billions of dollars have been spent on research and development of new ...
Mon, May 11 | from The Space Review

Opinion: NASA Approves Partial Privatization of the Space Program

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX for short, founded by PayPal entrepreneur Elon Musk, was already hard at work on its Falcon series of rockets. It also had done preliminary design work on a multipurpose capsule called the Dragon, ... all 601 news articles
Sat, May 9 | from FOX News

The case for a suborbital COTS program

MD NASA has followed on COTS with Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contracts awarded late last year to Orbital Sciences and SpaceX, the two companies with funded COTS agreements. Could a similar approach for suborbital vehicles? As with ISS resupply, ...
Mon, Apr 20 | from The Space Review

Does the ISS have a future?

MD However, there is at least a possibility that the SpaceX Dragon capsule or perhaps something from another firm will be ready in 2012 or thereabouts. The Gap may also be reduced if the shuttle keeps flying beyond its current 2010 retirement date. ...
Mon, Mar 23 | from The Space Review

SpaceX Engines Rattle Central Texas

The full mission duration test firing of the Falcon 9 first stage lasting nearly 3 minutes. The nine Merlin engines produced 855,000 lbs. of thrust and consumed over half a million pounds of liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene during the test. SpaceX has added video of the test.
Sun, Nov 23 | from Spaceports

Next for SpaceX: Falcon 9, NASA, Humans and the Moon?

With a successful Falcon 1 launch under their belt, all eyes are now on the SpaceX team and the larger Falcon 9 rocket scheduled to be shipped to Cape Canaveral, Florida, late this year to prep for its NASA cargo flights. Falcon 9 has nine Merlin rocket engines to Falcon 1's one, hence the 9 [...]
Mon, Sep 29 | from Apemyp