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Private Firms Look to Cash In on NASA Cuts

(Feb. 1) – With NASA's Constellation program cut from the budget President Obama proposed Monday, private companies have the chance to play a bigger role in the next space race. While the budget request for fiscal year 2011 eliminates the Constellation program – which would have replaced the space shuttle with...

Obama to Propose Stimulus for Outsourcing NASA

WASHINGTON (Jan. 31) -- Getting to space is about to be outsourced. The Obama administration on Monday will propose in its new budget spending billions of dollars to encourage private companies to build, launch and operate spacecraft for NASA and others. Uncle Sam would buy its astronauts a ride into space just like...

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Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Gears Up For First Passenger Flights

This year is key for Virgin Galactic's bid to become the first commercial spaceliner service, as rocket-powered flights of its SpaceShipTwo are on the books for summer.

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02/10/12 Editorial: Don't ground the spaceport Source: Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe NM With tens of millions of tax dollars spent to build Spaceport USA, New Mexicans have a vested interest in its success.
02/10/12 NSRC-2012 Early Registration Deadline To Win Free... Source: RTTNews Today - February 10, is the deadline for early registration to attend the 2012 Next Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference and be eligible to win a free suborbital flight on XCOR Aerospace Inc.'s spaceplane - Lynx Mark I, that would otherwise cost $95,000, or up to $200,000 on competing suborbital vehicles, if you are lucky.
02/09/12 Private Rocket Launch Tests Supersonic Parachute,... Source: Brudirect.com The private spaceflight company Armadillo Aerospace is taking a close look at the results from its latest rocket test in the New Mexico desert - a flight that hit a snag while testing a new launch and balloon parachute technologies.
02/08/12 SpaceX Announces Launch Deal With AsiaSat Source: Forbes SpaceX announced today that it's signed a deal with AsiaSat to launch two of its communications satellites in the first half of 2014.
02/06/12 Limit on Colorado spaceport liability advances Source: Denver Business Journal - Denver CO A critical piece of Colorado's efforts to develop a spaceport at Front Range Airport sailed unanimously through its first legislative committee Monday, despite expected opposition.