After years – nay, decades – of waiting, 2021 was the year that space tourism finally launched. In the span of 10 short days in July, the commercial spaceflight sector took two giant leaps as both ...

Space Foundation, a nonprofit advocate organization founded in 1983 for the global space ecosystem, today released “The Space Report 2021 Q4,” which looks back at the historic level of launch activity ...

Space Foundation, a 501(c)(3) global space advocate for nearly 40 years, today announced it will host its “State of Space 2021” program on Feb. 9, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. EST. The third annual event will ...

The ISS, now in its twenty-first year of continuous human occupation, has had a busy year of operations. Two new modules were added and 18 visiting vehicles were at the Station throughout the year. In ...

The rapid expansion of the commercial space industry over the last couple of years has led early-stage investors to consider very different types of companies than they did when space startups were a ...

Private investment in space companies last year set a record, according to a report Tuesday by New York-based firm Space Capital. Space infrastructure companies received $14.5 billion of private ...

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Jeff Bezos uncorks the bubbly after riding Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship. (Blue Origin Photo) For 25 years, I’ve been recapping the top stories about space and looking forward to next ...

When future generations write about the history of space travel, 2021 may well get its own chapter. “The year of the billionaires,” it might be called. Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson each took ...

It’s an indelible image of science fiction made real. Actor William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek TV series, choking up as he described his flight with Blue Origin, after ...