Spaceflight

NASA successfully launched Boeing's unmanned spacecraft Starliner bound for the International Space Station on Thursday, which NASA hopes will eventually carry astronauts.

The standup comedian and “Saturday Night Live” star might find himself performing for an audience of a select few after a report on Thursday said that Davidson, 28, is nearing a deal to accompany the Amazon founder on an intergalactic mission to experience zero gravity weightlessness during a commercial space trip.

Jeff Bezos' space exploration company, Blue Origin, on Tuesday tapped new crewmembers for its next launch into space aboard the New Shepard, including TV personality and former NFL player Michael Strahan

Elon Musk says SpaceX hopes Starship's first orbital flight will happen in January

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday evening, less than 24 hours after it launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Apparently, space travel is a popular desire among nearly half of American adults.

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.