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Private spaceflight is in business: In a big success for SpaceX, its Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, making the first commercial delivery into the cosmos.

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?

This month, 12 more billionaire families committed to donate at least half of their wealth to charity by taking the Giving Pledge. Here are introductions to some of the new signatories and their pet philanthropic projects.

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.

Tesla Motors, which went public with much fanfare last June, nearly tripled its losses for 2010 as it invested heavily to engineer and get ready for producing the Model S, its second offering and the first that targets a broader consumer market.

We've all been told that a requirement of success now is a four-year college degree, at the very minimum. But Peter Thiel disagrees. That idea, says the PayPal co-founder, is so 20th century, that the self-made billionaire plans to award cash grants of $100,000 to college students -- if they'll...

Tesla Motors' stock surged as much as 12% to $19 in its trading debut Tuesday, a day after the IPO priced at $17 a share. The luxury electric car manufacturer is the first U.S. automaker to go public in more than 50 years.

IPOs have been pretty tame so far this year, but here comes a much-buzzed-about offering from Tesla, featuring supersexy electric vehicles, like the Model S, and Elon Musk -- a CEO who's so far making far more headlines than cars.

Elon Musk, the co-founder of PayPal, owner of Tesla Motors and supposedly a basis for the superhero of the Iron Man movies, is broke and living off loans from friends. In divorce court filings, Musk says that "about four months ago, I ran out of cash," the New York Times is reporting. As part of...

Tesla Motors has plenty of skeptics. But make no mistake: Its sleek sports car has fired up the imagination of Silicon Valley's wealthy trend-setters. This excitement bodes very well for Elon Musk's auto start-up.