Spaceflight

Virgin Galactic said Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared it to resume launches after an investigation into why its spaceship veered off course while descending during a July flight with founder Richard Branson aboard.

Four space tourists safely ended their trailblazing trip to orbit Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast.

City College of New York professor and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku noted on Wednesday that the first all-civilian crew mission to space could potentially launch tourism trips.

SpaceX launched 51 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California

Phantom Space, the Arizona-based, two-year-old rocket startup, announced its second acquisition of an established aerospace firm in the last six months Tuesday morning, the Florida-based Micro Aerospace Solutions.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk sounded optimistic Saturday night when asked about the progress of the company’s Starship lunar lander project for NASA.

Recent high school graduate Oliver Daemen became the youngest person to go into space Tuesday morning after he secured one of four seats on billionaire Jeff Bezos’ first crewed Blue Origin flight that blasted off from Texas Tuesday morning.

As Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos launched into space on Tuesday aboard a Blue Origin rocket, back on Earth a Democratic lawmaker announced a measure to levy taxes commercial spaceflight.

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said Tuesday that the aerospace company founded in 2000 is already nearing $100 million in private sales.

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos is set to take off for space on Tuesday, bringing along a crew that is poised to make history.

Jeff Bezos and the three passengers who will be accompanying the Blue Origin CEO into space on June 20 arrived in West Texas on Friday in preparation for the launch.

Jeff Bezos made the largest donation to the Smithsonian since the museum was first founded this week, giving $70 million to renovate the National Air and Space Museum and $130 million to build a new education complex.

Founder and CEO of Space Perspective Taber MacCallum joined "Varney & Co." Monday with insight into the latest travel venture in the space tourism race: a balloon.

Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson is set to leapfrog Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos to become the first billionaire in space when the British entrepreneur launches into space Sunday, nine days ahead of Bezos's first planned ascent.

Jeff Bezoses, Amazon CEO and founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, has selected an 82-year-old female aerospace pioneer to travel to space with him on July 20.

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit successfully used its unique mid-air launch system to send commercial satellites into orbit for the first time on Wednesday morning.

The aerospace company kicked off the three-phase online auction in early May, offering one seat on the first flight of its New Shepard spacecraft which has already had over a dozen successful flights to and from space, according to Blue Origin.

Sens. Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders are speaking out against a $10 billion corporate “bailout” to Blue Origin, a space flight company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.

The race is on to democratize the rocket-launch industry, and Phantom Space Corp., a roughly two-year-old startup, continued its warp-speed flight toward that goal Tuesday, announcing the acquisition of StratSpace, a major U.S. aerospace firm.

A Space Force commander was reportedly relieved from his post for making comments denouncing Marxist ideology in the military.