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Aviation Week's Person Of The Year: The Space Entrepreneur
A group of entrepreneurs has long been pitching far-fetched space ideas to skeptical moneymen. Now their plans are becoming reality, and metal & fire are streaking through the atmosphere into space.

SpaceX Dragon Launch Window Set
Space Exploration Technologies has announced their intention to send a Dragon capsule to the International Space Station in as soon as 6 months from now.

Solaren Gets SSP Go-Ahead
The California Public Utilities Commission has approved a utility contract for startup Solaren to build the first space solar power station.

Stimulate the Commercial Crew Launchers
NASA is gearing up to release $50 million in stimulus funding for the commercial launch industry.

Future of Human Spaceflight Questioned
With the retirement of the Space Shuttle looming closer and closer, what will happen when astronauts no longer fly on the Space Shuttle?

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unveiled to the World
Behind the scenes at the Mojave Spaceport, spaceship visionary Burt Rutan gives us a personal tour of the freshly unveiled SpaceShipTwo.

SpaceX is Training Astronauts
Space Exploration Technologies hosted NASA astronauts recently at their headquarters in Hawthorne, CA for preliminary training on their Dragon spacecraft.

Wake Up To Space Junk
NASA and DARPA have teamed up to take a hard look at the issues and challenges of de-cluttering space of human-made orbital debris.

2 Hours to Anywhere
Flying Abu Dhabi to LA in 2 hours? Suborbital Point-to-Point travel may be closer than you think.

Space Battle for the White House
A battle is underway between the friends and foes of the Ares I rocket to win over the hearts and minds of space lawmakers.

Virgin Galactic Investment Under Investigation
The US Committee on Foreign Investments has begun an investigation into Aabar's investment in Virgin Galactic.

Orion Propulsion Acquired
NewSpace rocket company Orion Propulsion has recently been acquired by Dynetics, Inc. of Huntsville, Alabama.

Spandau Ballet To Perform In Space
Virgin Galactic, truly a "company of firsts," has announced that 80's rockers Spandau Ballet will perform in sub-orbit in 18 months.

South Korea Supports XCOR
The Yecheon Astro Space Center in South Korea has chosen XCOR Aerospace as their premier supplier of suborbital launch services.

Teachers Becoming Superheroes
Thanks to the Northrop Grumman Foundation and Zero Gravity Corporation, weightless flights for science teachers are rapidly transforming the classroom learning experience.

Big Decade, Big Future
With the end of 2009, comes the end of a fantastic decade of NewSpace growth. Here's to the future of entrepreneurial space.

Faster, NASA, Faster
Compared to Silicon Valley, NASA innovation is painfully slow - which may eventually lead to its demise. But what can be done about it?

Spaceport America Construction Contract Awarded
The New Mexico Spaceport Authority recently awarded the construction contract for their Terminal Hangar Facility, which will be the world headquarters for Virgin Galactic.

The Kennedy Legacy in Space
When Kennedy declared that "We choose to go to the moon in this decade," he could not have known that our desire to recapture lost glories of Apollo would put us in a holding pattern, repeating mistakes like a broken record, well into the 21st century.

Take Back Space 2010
The Space Frontier Foundation will lead citizen advocates to Capitol Hill on Feb 7-12.
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The Public Face of Space
The International Space University's symposium, Feb 16-18, will address space education and outreach in a very broad way.

Space Investment Summit 8
SIS-8, May 26 in Chicago, will offer exclusive dialogue sessions with prominent investment leaders and an entrepreneurial showcase of pre-qualified space-related business plans.

The Space Show Highlights
Peter Sage, Dr. John Olds, Jeff Manber, and Tom Olson discuss space and their NewSpace initiatives with Dr. David Livingston on The Space Show.

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