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Time for Real Space Tourism in Florida
Space Frontier Foundation co-founder Bob Werb argues that Florida's space and tourism industries are connected & that the successful merger of both may save that State's economy.

Odyssey Moon to Fly Dutch Payload
Odyssey Moon, one of the leading contenders for the Google Lunar X-Prize, announced recently that they will be doing a mission with a Dutch company sending a payload to the surface of the Moon.

Challenges for Orbital Sciences
Orbital Sciences Corporation, one of two companies that received over $1.5 billion to re-supply the International Space Station, had a launch failure last week, carrying NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite.

SSP Looks to Obama
With some recent key appointments within NASA, advocates of Space Solar Power hope that President Obama's "Change" regarding alternative energy sources includes collecting solar power from space.

Heat Shield Passes Tests
Becoming the second ever commercial source of NASA-developed re-entry material, SpaceX Technologies successfully arc-jet tested their Pica-X material, which is slated to fly on their Dragon spacecraft later this year.

Elon Talks to CNN
Kara Finnstrom of CNN interviews Space Exploration Technologies CEO Elon Musk.

Zero-G Flight for Futurama Creators
Matt Groening and David Cohen, creators of the TV series "Futurama," recently took a flight on Zero-G.

Contaminated by American Technology
The strict regulations on exporting US space components to any other country have helped boost Europe to the top of a $100 billion industry.

Google Takes On Mars
With a new module, users of Google Earth can now explore the red planet through different views, including looking through their very own virtual night-vision goggles.

Point-to-Point Spaceflight
If Rocketplane Global's Vice President Chuck Lauer has anything to say about it, space tourism will be the first step towards the lucrative idea of point-to-point inter-continental travel.

NewSpace: The Orbital Industrial Revolution
Welcome to the new video section of Space.com, a virtual "hub" of NewSpace video content, including clips from Space Adventures, Bigelow Aerospace, Virgin Galactic and more.

Virgin Plans to Go Orbital
Virgin Galactic is looking into different space markets other than just tourism, including astronaut training, technology testing and demonstration, and small satellite launching.

Space Show Highlights
Bryan Laubscher, Stephen Doyle, and Rosanna Sattler discuss their respective NewSpace initiatives with Dr. David Livingston on The Space Show.

EVA Interviews - The Business of the New Space Age
Eva-Jane Lark interviews space gurus Guillermo Sohnlein and James Dunstan.

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