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Beam Me Up, Scotty
Seattle-based LaserMotive, one of the competing teams in the Space Elevator Games, have their heads in the clouds now that they have won $900,000 in prize money.

Japan Is Serious About Space Solar Power
Japan is looking at a solar station in space as a new energy source, and recently selected a team of companies and researchers tasked with making it a reality.

Out of This World, and Right Around the Corner
Routine commercial travel to outer space can be here as soon as 2012, as adventure-seeking civilians are shot into sub-orbit.

Internet on Mars? Google It.
As if Google isn't already pushing the boundaries of tomorrow, their Vice President Vint Cerf has unveiled interplanetary internet protocol.

NASA's CCDev is Awarded
NASA has unveiled who is eligible for CCDev funding: Boeing/Bigelow Partnership, Paragon Labs, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Space Exploration Technologies and United Launch Alliance.

What's Dave Got Up His Sleeve?
Now that Dave Masten and his team at Masten Space Systems have won $1.15 million in prize money, what do they plan to do next?

Time Magazine's Best Invention of the Year
Buzz Aldrin comments on the "wonder" that is the Ares I rocket and says: "Cancel Ares I now....unleash the commercial sector by paying them for transportation services."

Virgin Galactic Presents: LauncherOne
A look into Virgin Galactic's plan to launch small satellite payloads into orbit for $1-2 million, and whether it makes good business sense.

Investment in Commercial Spaceflight Grows
Since January 2008 there has been a 20% increase in NewSpace investment, reports the Tauri Group, reaching a cumulative total of $261 million in 2008. Do you sense a movement happening?

Blue Origin Lives
Jeff Bezos' secretive rocket program Blue Origin has recently selected a handful of research payloads, scheduled to fly in "the coming years."

SpaceShipTwo Is Unveiled
The Stage is Set for Burt Rutan's highly anticipated SpaceShipTwo, built by Mojave-based Scaled Composites, and is set to be unveiled on December 7th.

New Zealand Likes Space Too
The first-ever privately funded suborbital rocket launch from the southern hemisphere happened last week, and the rocket's maker has NewSpace profit on his mind.

The Joy of Taking Risks
Peter Diamandis, CEO of the X Prize Foundation, speaks about the fire that ignites inside when he starts anything - especially a NewSpace company.

What's Taking So Long?
Those frustrated with the pace of developments in the commercial space industry, like SpaceX's Falcon 9, can learn from the steam boat industry's development two centuries ago.

Space Tourism Is No Hoax
Two former directors of the European Space Agency have called the space tourism industry a "hoax," declaring the NewSpace companies "are selling impossible dreams of space."

The Space Show Highlights
Miles O'Brien, Dr. Robert Zubrin, and Alan Boyle discuss their respective views on the NewSpace industry on The Space Show.

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