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SpaceShipTwo Rocket Engine Tested
Scaled Composites has successfully tested the propulsion system for SpaceShipTwo, and states that the vehicle is 75% finished.

PlanetSpace Protests COTS Contract Awards
Chicago-based firm PlanetSpace is challenging the $2 billion in COTS awards for ISS resupply contracts, claiming that it had a lower bid and higher NASA suitability score than winner Orbital Sciences.

SpaceX Donates Launch to Heinlein Trust
While promoting microgravity research, Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies has donated a DragonLab launch and mission to support the Heinlein Trust Microgravity Research Competition.

Just Another Lunar Robot
Meet Jaluro, an open-source lunar robot designed by Google Lunar X-Prize contender Team FredNet.

No More ISS Private Tours
The Russian Federal Space Agency has announced private citizens will no longer be allowed to travel to the International Space Station after 2009.

SSME's for Commercial Use
NASA says that once it retires the Shuttle, the agency expects the commercial space sector to use shuttle's main engines, assuming they're still in "fly-able condition."

Business Is Good
Eric Anderson, CEO of space tourism company Space Adventures, Inc., says the recent economic downturn has not had a detrimental effect on his company.

COTS-D in the Works?
Now that the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services contract has been awarded to SpaceX and Orbital Sciences for cargo transportation, can we expect a COTS-D award any time soon for crew transportation?

SpaceShipTwo Competitor in 2015
An all-European competitor to U.S. suborbital tourism has emerged, due in part to a $9.7 million project focusing on suborbital and hypersonic point-to-point transport systems.

Welcome to eSpace
CU-Boulder and SpaceDev Inc. recently launched eSpace, the center for space entrepreneurship, with hopes to drive innovation and commercialize new aerospace technologies.

Why Space? Why Now?
With the new Administration in the White House, what are the most compelling reasons to go to space?

License to Thrill
No longer do spaceship pilots need to be Military, nor do they need to be from the US or Russia-meet the first commercial spaceship pilots of XCOR Aerospace and Scaled Composites.

Space Show Highlights
Dr. Robert Zubrin, Taylor Dinerman and Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson discuss their respective NewSpace initiatives with Dr. David Livingston on The Space Show.

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