PrivateSpaceflight

SpaceX Boldly Goes Where No Entrepreneur Has Sold Before

On Saturday, Elon Musk's SpaceX will make the first ever attempt by a private company to launch a spaceship and dock it with the International Space Station. Are we looking at the more affordable future of space flight?

Red Star Rising: Is U.S. Losing the Space Race?

On Sept. 29, 2011, the first module of a new space station blasted into orbit, initiating an era of space exploration different in one key respect: We didn't launch this station; China did. And while China's ascendance to space superpower confirms changes in the global economy, you shouldn't count the U.S. out of space just yet.