Tech tycoon buys SpaceX flight to orbit, sets aside seats for sweepstakes winner (and a fellow techie) A billionaire CEO who also happens to be a trained jet pilot is buying a days-long flight to orbit aboard… Read More
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship aces uncrewed rehearsal for crewed space trips Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture put the New Shepard spaceship that’s destined to fly people on suborbital… Read More
Virgin Galactic offers a peek inside SpaceShipTwo in VR, making its case in the space tourism race More than a decade after Virgin Galactic unveiled a swoopy, spacey look for the passenger cabin of its SpaceShipTwo rocket… Read More
Former Spaceflight CEO and French entrepreneur join forces to launch astronaut training startup If the 2010s were the decade when small satellites revolutionized the space industry, the 2020s will be when commercial space… Read More
Space Adventures looks for a customer to do a spacewalk after Russia gives its OK BELLEVUE, Wash. — Russian space officials say that they’ve signed off on a commercial deal with Virginia-based Space Adventures to… Read More
Space Perspective reboots vision of flying passengers to stratosphere on a balloon The space entrepreneurs who planned to send passengers ballooning into the stratosphere for astronaut’s-eye views of the Earth below, way… Read More
Axiom Space makes deal with SpaceX to send customers to space station next year Axiom Space says it’s signed a contract with SpaceX to fly three paying passengers and an Axiom-trained commander to the… Read More
Two-time spaceflier Charles Simonyi offers advice for commercial space travelers Microsoft billionaire Charles Simonyi is the only man on Earth to buy a multimillion-dollar ride to orbit not just once,… Read More
Virgin Galactic resumes taking deposits for SpaceShipTwo suborbital trips Virgin Galactic says it’s letting customers pay $1,000 refundable deposits toward suborbital trips on its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, resuming spaceflight… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: Meet Charles Simonyi; cosmic rays; Star Brews Beer Festival; and more — Not many people can say they’ve traveled to space. Not many can say they were also the original developer… Read More
SpaceX and Space Adventures plan to send customers on high-flying space trips Space Adventures says it’s entered into an agreement with SpaceX to send private citizens into orbit on free-flying missions that… Read More
WOW! Virgin Galactic’s next SpaceShipTwo rocket plane reaches ‘Weight on Wheels’ milestone The rocket plane that’s due to become Virgin Galactic’s second commercial suborbital spaceship can now stand on its own two… Read More
Virgin Galactic soars and then levels off on first day as publicly traded space company Like the rocket plane it operates, Virgin Galactic’s stock price blasted off on its first day as a publicly traded… Read More
Suborbital spacefliers will get pinned by the Association of Space Explorers WASHINGTON, D.C. — Will the customers who fly on the suborbital spaceships operated by British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic… Read More
Blue Origin’s CEO says first space trips on New Shepard will cost ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’ Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has always shied away from saying how much it will cost to… Read More
Blue Origin reportedly has just a few test flights to go before people take space trips Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith has told Axios that just a few test flights remain before the space venture founded… Read More
Bigelow aims to sell rides to space station on SpaceX Dragon ships for $52M a seat Just days after NASA laid out its ground rules for commercial travel to the International Space Station, Nevada-based Bigelow Space… Read More
NASA finally gets down to the business of commercializing space station operations NASA today laid out its initial batch of ground rules for future commercial activities on the International Space Station, including… Read More
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane carries three people for first time Virgin Galactic followed up on last December’s first SpaceShipTwo flight past the 50-mile space milestone by sending up its first… Read More
Russians say they have a deal with Space Adventures to put tourists in orbit by 2021 Russia’s space agency says it’s getting ready to resume sending private passengers to the International Space Station and back, a… Read More
Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson talks up spacesuits and his countdown to space trip Virgin Galactic’s billionaire founder, Richard Branson, today took the wraps off a partnership with Under Armour to create the spacesuit… Read More
What’s next for commercial spaceflight? Passengers will soon get their turn MOJAVE, Calif. — The first suborbital space passenger is less likely to be a billionaire like Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson… Read More
Virgin Galactic sends its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to 50-mile space milestone MOJAVE, Calif. — Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, dubbed VSS Unity, has become the first privately funded vehicle in 14 years… Read More
Virgin Galactic gets set for SpaceShipTwo flights that aim for space — but how high? Virgin Galactic says it’s beginning a series of SpaceShipTwo test flights that could cross the edge of the space frontier… Read More
One small step: Orion Span kicks off $2M crowdfunding campaign for space hotel Orion Span, a Houston-based venture that’s planning to put a luxury hotel in orbit, has kicked off a crowdfunding effort… Read More
Blue Origin resets schedule: First crew to space in 2019, first orbital launch in 2021 LYNNWOOD, Wash. — Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is now planning to send its first… Read More
SpaceX’s round-the-moon trip could have VR, ‘Space Bar’ and in-flight entertainment It’s been only a day since SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the plan to send Yusaku Maezawa and roughly half… Read More
Japan’s Yusaku Maezawa revealed as first customer for SpaceX trip around the moon SpaceX CEO Elon Musk today introduced Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa as the first paying customer for a trip around the… Read More
Space Adventures is back in vogue – and aiming to go beyond orbital tourism More than 17 years after Space Adventures put its first millionaire client in orbit, and nearly nine years after getting… Read More
SpaceShipTwo rocket plane pushes the envelope in third supersonic test flight Virgin Galactic sent its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, VSS Unity, to its highest-ever altitude today during its third powered test flight —… Read More
