14 September 2022
Ex-NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver helped create the now-booming private space industry. But she says NASA is still too focused on using its moon programme to provide jobs for US workers
8 April 2022
The first all-private trip to the International Space Station (ISS) is launching today aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
5 April 2022
US company Axiom Space is set to send a commercial crew to visit the International Space Station and perform scientific research there for eight days
16 March 2022
Right now, very few of us have a say in how humans get to space or what we do there. That has to change, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
14 February 2022
Billionaire Jared Isaacman, who flew to orbit aboard a SpaceX craft in September 2021, has purchased three more flights into orbit, and the first is planned for late 2022
21 September 2021
The Inspiration4 mission was the first orbital space flight to carry only private passengers and was mostly not broadcast publicly, a surprising change from the space agency transparency
14 September 2021
SpaceX’s Inspiration4 launch, planned for 15 September, will mark the first time a flight into orbit has been crewed exclusively by people who are not professional astronauts
19 July 2021
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will attempt to make history tomorrow when his space company Blue Origin launches its first crewed mission to space after 15 uncrewed flights
30 April 2021
After NASA selected SpaceX to land humans on the moon in 2024, its competitors Blue Origin and Dynetics filed complaints with the US government
23 April 2021
Astronauts from NASA, the ESA and Japanese space agency JAXA have blasted off to the International Space Station on a reused SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket
