Space Exploration Technologies Corporation

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Budget cuts in a program to spur commercial space taxis will likely keep the United States dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station until 2017, NASA's head of space operations said on Thursday.But ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A private company will make a trial cargo run to the International Space Station in February, a key step in a new U.S. program to buy spaceflight services on a commercial basis, NASA said on Friday.California-based Space ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A prototype passenger spaceship developed by privately owned Space Exploration Technologies arrived in Florida on Sunday for launch on a practice cargo run to the International Space Station, officials said on Monday.Liftoff of the Dragon capsule aboard ...

The US company SpaceX is working on the first-ever reusable rocket to launch to space and back, with the goal of one day helping humans colonize Mars, founder Elon Musk said Thursday.The vehicle would be a reusable version of the Falcon 9 ...

California-based rocket maker SpaceX said that it will make a test flight in late November to the International Space Station, now that NASA has retired its space shuttle program. "SpaceX has been hard at work preparing for our next flight -- a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies, a privately owned firm developing a space taxi with U.S.-government backing, plans to launch its second test capsule on November 30 and send it all the way to the International Space Station, a company ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Former chief astronaut Steve Lindsey announced his retirement on Thursday, the latest in a series of departures from the ranks of NASA's elite corps spurred by the end of the space shuttle program.For the U.S. space agency's newest astronaut ...

Private companies, aided by NASA's cash and expertise in human space flight, are rushing to be the first to build a space capsule to replace the retiring US shuttle in the next few years.With Atlantis wrapping up its final mission and the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Atlantis rocketed off its seaside launch pad on Friday, rising atop a tower of smoke and flames as it left Earth on the shuttle program's final flight.About 1 million sightseers witnessed the smooth liftoff from ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Atlantis was set to rocket off its seaside launch pad in Florida on Friday on the final flight in the 30-year U.S. shuttle program.Liftoff was set for 11:26 a.m. EDT, but as many as 750,000 ...

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Topic: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation

NASA revamps, delays commercial space taxi work

NASA clears SpaceX for trial run to space station

Prototype passenger spaceship poised for launch

SpaceX says 'reusable rocket' could help colonize Mars

SpaceX plans November test flight to space station

SpaceX eyes November 30 cargo launch to space station

U.S. astronauts gird for post-shuttle era

Private space race heats up as US shuttle retires

Space shuttle leaves Earth on final flight

Final liftoff set to end U.S. space shuttle era

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