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companies vying to open up space to ordinary citizens saw total collective revenue surpass a quarter of a billion dollars in 2007, a 50 percent increase over the previous year, according to a new report commissioned by the Personal Spaceflight Federation.

Space Adventures Announces Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin As Orbital Spaceflight Investor and Founding Member of Orbital Mission Explorers Circle

Space Adventures Announces Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin As Orbital Spaceflight Investor and Founding Member of Orbital Mission Explorers Circle

Review: SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History

This Saturday marks the fourth anniversary of SpaceShipOne’s historic suborbital spaceflight. At the time, the flight was widely heralded—including in this publication—as a major milestone in the history of spaceflight, the event that would help usher in a new era of commercial space travel that would eventually help make humanity a true spacefaring civilization. That hasn’t happened, at least not yet: no one has duplicated SpaceShipOne’s feat in the four years since that flight into the fringes of space above Mojave, California. Even SpaceShipOne has remained earthbound since winning the $10-million Ansari X Prize in October 2004.

NASA Sets Briefing With Next Station Crew, Spaceflight Participant

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Burt Rutan, Designer Of SpaceShipOne, Steps Down as Scaled PresidentDevelopment Work Drives Personal Spaceflight Industry GrowthTackling Moondust for Future Lunar LivingGiant Space Vegetables Now On EarthIPO To Aid DigitalGlobe-GeoEye Comparison

Aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan discusses the design for SpaceShipTwo, a suborbital piloted spacecraft under construction by his firm Scaled Composites on Jan. 23, 2007. The craft will serve as the workhorse for Virgin Galactic's space tourism flights. Credit: Michael Soluri.

Future of Mars Exploration: What's Next?Google Seals Deal for New Offices at NASA AmesBurt Rutan, Designer Of SpaceShipOne, Steps Down as Scaled PresidentDevelopment Work Drives Personal Spaceflight Industry GrowthTackling Moondust for Future Lunar L

Full-scale models of (left to right) the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, Sojourner, and the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Victor Emerges in Stormy Battle on JupiterEarly Mars Was All WetYoung Galaxies Surprisingly MagneticStar Vies to be BrightestThe Science Behind the Aug. 1 Solar EclipseParticles Retain Weight for Billions of YearsAsteroid Cruises Past Earth ... With

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Early Mars Was All WetYoung Galaxies Surprisingly MagneticStar Vies to be BrightestThe Science Behind the Aug. 1 Solar EclipseParticles Retain Weight for Billions of YearsAsteroid Cruises Past Earth ... With a Partner!What Makes Earth Special Compare

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Star Vies to be BrightestThe Science Behind the Aug. 1 Solar EclipseParticles Retain Weight for Billions of YearsAsteroid Cruises Past Earth ... With a Partner!What Makes Earth Special Compared to Other PlanetsSun's Not Screwy, Scientist SaysReport:

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Sun's Not Screwy, Scientist SaysReport: How to Get Samples from MarsCosmic Baby Boom Baffles AstronomersWater Discovered in Moon SamplesSunlight Splits Asteroids into PairsFor Better or Worse, Sex in Space Is InevitableSaturn Surprises Spur Cassini M

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The New History of Black Holes

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Water Discovered in Moon SamplesSunlight Splits Asteroids into PairsFor Better or Worse, Sex in Space Is InevitableSaturn Surprises Spur Cassini Mission RepriseSpacecraft Woken for Asteroid EncounterVolcanoes on Mercury Solve 30-year MysteryStrange A

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Asteroid Cruises Past Earth ... With a Partner!What Makes Earth Special Compared to Other PlanetsSun's Not Screwy, Scientist SaysReport: How to Get Samples from Mars

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New Video Sees Earth from Alien PerspectiveSolar Systems Like Ours May Be RareFourth Dwarf Planet Named For Polynesian GodHow Mars and Alaska Are AlikeVictor Emerges in Stormy Battle on JupiterEarly Mars Was All WetYoung Galaxies Surprisingly Magneti

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SpaceX and NASA to Improve Mission Critical Software Systems

Effort Will Help Close Spaceflight Gap by Supporting ISS Cargo Delivery Program as Well as Potential Crew Carrying Dragon Spacecraft Missions to the International Space Station

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Review: Tourists in Space

Over the last several years, the concept of personal spaceflight (aka space tourism) has gained acceptance from the broader public, even if the development of the vehicles intended to serve this new market has lagged (see “Where’s my rocketship?� The Space Review, July 7, 2008). What was once treated with winks and giggles and guffaws is now given serious consideration not just by the space industry but the much larger travel and tourism industry as well. So much so that someone can publish a book with the title Tourists in Space: A Practical Guide and have it treated as just that: a nuts-and-bolts look at suborbital and orbital space tourism, particularly for those people considering signing up for a ride into space.

NASA Engineers Work On Alternative Moon Rocket

Gibson writes "A team of 57 engineers at NASA's Marshall Spaceflight center feel that the Ares rocket is not the best solution for launching the new CEV. They are currently working on their own time developing an alternative launch system known as Jupiter. The 131 page proposal, along with other information, is available on the project website. Proponents of the project say that it is 'simpler, safer, and sooner' than the Ares project, predicting the ability for a return to the moon in 2017, two years before the current goal. Ares management has so far dismissed the proposal as a 'napkin drawing.'"

Review: The Universe in a Mirror

What NASA mission is the most beloved by the general public? While human spaceflight efforts like the space shuttle and space station get a lot of attention, there is no shortage of detractors for each. Some of NASA’s Mars missions, in particular the twin Mars Exploration Rovers and, most recently, the Phoenix lander, have captured the attention of the public, to the point where we have even anthropomorphized these robotic explorers. Even here, though, there is grumbling from scientists who think that Mars exploration is getting a disproportionate share of funding, or from people who think the money would be better spent on domestic needs (as evidenced from a handful of op-eds and letters to the editor in the days following Phoenix’s landing a couple weeks ago).

A skeptics guide to space exploration

Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about Apollo worship, the perceived lack of public interest in spaceflight, and what motivates large-scale projects like space exploration during a May 29 speech in Washington. (credit: J. Foust)

Space Teacher Barbara Morgan to Leave NASA

Space teacher Barbara Morgan, NASA's first professional educator astronaut, will hang up her spaceflight wings in August after a two-decade trek to orbit that culminated with a shuttle launch last year.

First teacher-turned-astronaut to leave NASA

Space teacher Barbara Morgan, NASA's first professional educator astronaut, will hang up her spaceflight wings in August to become an educator at Idaho's Boise State University, the federal space agency announced on Friday.

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