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Space tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. A number of startup companies have sprung up in recent years, hoping to create a space tourism industry.
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Virgin Galactic says it expects to make rocket-powered test flights of its passenger spaceship later this year.
The company said Wednesday its spaceship builder partner has been granted an experimental permit from the Federal Aviation Administration -- a move that will allow it to proceed with powered flights.No timetable has been set for the first launches carrying paying customers, but that'll come after the test program is complete. More than 500 people including actor Ashton Kutcher have signed up with Virgin Galactic for a chance to experience weightlessness during suborbital flights.Virgin Galactic and Mojave, California-based Scaled Composites have been glide-testing their six-passenger vehicle SpaceShipTwo, which is air-launched from a twin-fuselage carrier airplane.Work is under way to integrate the rocket motor into SpaceShipTwo....The private spaceflight company SpaceX will likely postpone the planned launch of its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station next week, officials announce...
The private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully test fired the rocket that will launch the first-ever commercial space capsule to the International Space Station...
Fifty years after the first American astronaut rocketed into space, one commercial spaceflight company is hoping to push the envelope even further, with tourist trip...
The private spaceflight company Armadillo Aerospace is taking a close look at the results from its latest rocket test in the New Mexico desert — a flight that hit a ...
Space tourist blasts off in Kazakhstan; Italy tests pizza vending machine
Aerospace heavyweight Boeing has teamed up with a private spaceflight marketing firm to sell passenger seats for future flights in its new space capsule. Under the a...
A-lister Ashton Kutcher will be Virgin Galactic's 500th space tourism customer, Virgin boss Richard Branson announced on Monday."I gave Ashton a quick call to congra...
The nearly two-mile-long runway at Spaceport America in southern New Mexico will have to be extended to accommodate Virgin Galactic's sleek rocket-powered spacecraft...
Private spaceflight company Space Exploration ( SpaceX ) has received the final go-ahead from NASA to send its Dragon cargo craft on a landmark first mission to the ...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced Tuesday his plan to create a company that will bring "airport-like operations" to private spaceflight --thanks to the world...
The latest trend in eco-tourism is completely out of this world ... and right around the corner.Routine commercial travel to outer space may be the norm as soon as 2...
The aerospace company that built the solid rocket boosters for NASA's space shuttle fleet announced plans Tuesday to develop its own private launch system — a spaces...
The private spaceflight company SpaceX is poised to launch a robotic capsule toward the International Space Station Saturday (May 19) on a test flight that, if succe...
New era in private space flight begins
Construction is under way at Spaceport America where space tourism is becoming a reality
A Russian company on Wednesday announced an ambitious bid to fill the vacuum in the space tourism market by stationing an orbiting hotel in the cosmos.The Moscow-bas...
If you want to be an asteroid miner, you've got some stiff competition.Less than three weeks after officially unveiling its asteroid-mining plans, the billionaire-ba...
NASA has given SpaceX $381 million to develop a private rocket to replace the space shuttle -- and that's just the tip of the money iceberg.The space agency spent $5...
Blue Origin wants to fly under the radar -- all the way into space.The secretive private spaceflight firm, which was established in 2000 by Amazon.com founder Jeff B...
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