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

The awards include $9.4 million for SpaceX, $25.6 million for Blue Origin, $34.8 million for Northrop Grumman, $35.2 million for Lockheed Martin, and $40.8 million for Dynetics.

A Blue Origin spokesperson told FOX Business that the suit, which has been approved by a judge to remain under seal, is "an attempt to remedy the flaws in the acquisition process found in NASA’s Human Landing System."

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

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter on Wednesday to defend the capabilities of the aerospace company's Starship spacecraft as Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin continues to dispute NASA's decision to award one moon lander contract for its Human Landing System (HLS) program.

Boeing's second attempt at an uncrewed orbital flight test of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft has been postponed for the second time on Tuesday after engineers found "unexpected valve position indications" in the vehicle's propulsion systems.

NASA is using satellite data to help develop tools to support farmers and assist in the scientific study of soil loss.

Jeff Bezos has sent an open letter to NASA administrator Bill Nelson offering to help the agency cover over $2 billion in costs in exchange for awarding a second Human Landing System (HLS) contract to Blue Origin.

Blue Origin took shots at competitor Virgin Galactic on Twitter Friday night, comparing offerings to customers using a recent Aerospace Research Central study.

The planned undocking of SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station has been delayed due to Tropical Storm Elsa.

NASA's Office of the Inspector General warned in a May report that "attempts to steal critical information are increasing in both complexity and severity," with phishing attempts against NASA doubling and malware attacks increasing "exponentially" during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic announced Thursday morning that the next rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo "Unity" is targeted for Saturday.

NASA's KiNet-X mission is designed to study how energy and momentum are transported between different regions of space that are magnetically connected. 

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk had “friendly” meetings discussing space exploration before a rivalry formed.

Dr. Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who went from developing Nazi weapons to helping get NASA off the ground for the U.S., wrote a novel in the years after World War II speculating about life on Mars – and how human society there would be led by “Elon.”

Sixty years to the day that NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space aboard the Freedom 7 rocket, U.S. business leaders are continuing to help the country make major strides in space exploration.

Astronauts on SpaceX's Crew-1 Dragon capsule are now scheduled to return to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday before 3 a.m. EST.

Blue Origin announced Thursday that it would soon begin to sell tickets for a chance to ride on the reusable suborbital rocket New Shepard.

According to NASA, Ingenuity took off at 1:31 a.m. eastern time, or 12:33 p.m. local Mars time, rising 16 feet (5 meters) off the ground, the same altitude as its previous flight. The helicopter then zipped downrange 164 feet (50 meters), almost half the length of a football field, reaching a top speed of 6.6 feet per second (2 meters per second).