An all-civilian crew dubbed Inspiration4 is currently orbiting the Earth in a major milestone for commercial spaceflight. SpaceX launched the crew of Inspiration4 on a Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday evening from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.  The group is going through a three-day journey on a Crew Dragon spacecraft, orbiting many times around the Earth. …

The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Friday denied protests from companies affiliated with Jeff Bezos that NASA wrongly awarded a lucrative astronaut lunar lander contract solely to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The complaints were filed by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Leidos’ subsidiary Dynetics. “NASA did not violate procurement law or regulation when it decided to make only one award…

Nearly two decades after founding Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard Branson has made it to space, in a flight that could signify the start of space tourism. Brason was along for the ride when SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity reached space on July 11 in a pre-commercial, test flight.  This was Virgin Galactic’s fourth crewed spaceflight, but its…

The billionaire race to space is heating up, as Virgin Galactic bumped plans to fly Sir Richard Branson to space ahead of Blue Origin’s timeline for Jeff Bezos.  Virgin Galactic announced July 1 that the flight window for its next SpaceShipTwo Unity flight opens July 11. This will be the company’s fourth crewed spaceflight, but…