Must-See Video of XCOR CEO Jeff Greason's excellent talk at a recent TEDxSanJoseCA. A talk on the promise of Commercial Space Flight to open the Final Frontier.
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NewSpace: A New Era In Space Exploration. As one era ends a new one begins: a new golden era in spaceflight. Join us for all the latest headlines in this bold new adventure.
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Elon Musk has announced a time-scale for his company's planetary exploration goals.
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Faculty and students at the University of Colorado Boulder will continue to play a significant role in the development of the Dream Chaser, a commercial spacecraft that will be used to carry astronauts to low Earth orbit, thanks to a new $80 million grant from NASA to Sierra Nevada Corp.
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Blue Origin is developing a Crew Transportation System, comprised of a Space Vehicle (SV) launched first on an Atlas V launch vehicle and then on Blue Origin's own Reusable Booster System (RBS). NASA funding through CCDev 2 and the future Commercial Crew program will accelerate availability of the Blue Origin CTS.
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Blue Origin, a highly secretive private rocket developer, was one of four companies chosen April 18 to receive NASA funding to advance the design and testing of its orbital space vehicle, which could one day fly astronauts to destinations in low-Earth orbit.
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Paul Allen’s appearance on “Charlie Rose” this week wasn’t out of the blue: it was prompted by the release of his new memoir, Idea Man. The book covers the various interests in his life, and while much of the publicity about the book has centered on the passages about co-founding and working at Microsoft with Bill Gates, there is a whole chapter devoted to his interest in space.
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For years, Elon Musk has been saying that three years after the government puts up the cash, he could have a new ride for astronauts ready to fly.
On Monday, NASA decided to take him up on the pledge.
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June 4, 2010: The Falcon 9 rocket built by California based SpaceX launches into space on its maiden voyage. View photos of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 first ever rocket launch to space.
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The BBC was allowed inside Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo for an exclusive video tour of the spacecraft. Virgin Galactic is accepting reservations for $200,000 per seat.
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The CST-100 commercial crew transport involves an interesting mix of large, traditional aerospace companies (Boeing, PWR, USA and ULA) and smaller “New Space” firms such as Bigelow Aerospace, Space Adventures and XCOR.
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Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser, which received $80 million under NASA's CCDev program, is an interesting collaboration of NewSpace, Big Rocket and.
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Blue Origin has no orbital launcher system of its own – the company's New Shepard rocket-hopper vehicle is to be capable of suborbital flight only – but it did some work on reusable capsule design under CCDev1.
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Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) of Louisville, Colorado, has already received considerable financial support in Nasa's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) effort. It is now in line to get a further £80m in the latest round of funding.
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U.S. spacecraft engineers with federal funding will pursue at least five different ways to replace the space shuttle in the next few years, from capsules that harken back to the 1960s to a spaceplane and a vertical-takeoff-and-landing craft that flies to orbit on a reusable booster.
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Three of the four companies awarded funds under NASA's CCDev program have optional milestones in their Space Act Agreements that could net them millions of dollars in additional public funding.
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Our hiring bar is unabashedly extreme, and we insist on keeping our team size small. This means the person occupying each and every spot must be among the most technically gifted in his or her field.
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The secretive startup company received $22 million, exactly the amount it requested to hasten its development work.
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If we allow private enterprise to explore and take advantage of the Moon's resources, we may set ourselves on the road to energy independence.
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WASHINGTON – NASA has awarded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) $75 million to develop a revolutionary launch escape system that will enable the company’s Dragon spacecraft to carry astronauts. The Congressionally mandated award is part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) initiative that started in 2009 to help private companies mature concepts and technologies for human spaceflight.
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NASA has given its seal of approval (and a lot of money) to SpaceX and three other private companies, as part of its Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) initiative — a program designed to spur the development of U.S. commercial spaceflight.
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Jeff Bezo’s space start-up, Blue Origin, is getting a bit of help from Big Rocket and NASA’s research centers in developing its 7-person orbital vehicle. Compared with other bids, Blue Origin seems to be doing a lot of the work in house.
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NASA has given its seal of approval (and a lot of money) to SpaceX and three other private companies, as part of its Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) initiative — a program designed to spur the development of U.S. commercial spaceflight.
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Under a contract with NASA, Boeing is designing the CST-100 to carry a crew of seven in a low orbit over the earth.
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In February, the agency met with eight companies, including Alliant Techsystems (ATK), Blue Origin, Boeing, Excalibur Almaz, Orbital Sciences Corp., Sierra Nevada Corp.
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