Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has successfully landed a Falcon 9 first stage back at its launch site, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The success comes after two unsuccessful attempt...
http://www.citizensinspace.org/2015/12/a-rocket-has-landed-on-earth/
XCOR’s director of engineering and acting chief technology officer Michael Valant has announced the achievement of an important milestone in the development of the reusable 5K18 main rocket eng...
http://www.citizensinspace.org/2015/12/xcor-achieves-major-engine-milestone/
Blue Origin has pulled ahead in the suborbital space race with an unexpected, successful test flight of its New Shepard rocket. It’s notable that Blue Origin continues to make progress despite...
http://www.citizensinspace.org/2015/11/new-shepard-reaches-space/
Citizens in Space and Starbase Operations Complete Flight-Test Campaign Reno, Nevada – Citizens in Space, a project of the United States Rocket Academy, and Starbase Operations LLC have succes...
http://www.citizensinspace.org/2015/11/a-step-toward-commercial-spaceflight-training/
Citizens in Space has announced the payload manifest for its first flight on the XCOR Aerospace Lynx spacecraft. The experiments will be carried aboard the Lynx Cub Payload Carrier, an open-sourc...
http://www.citizensinspace.org/2015/08/citizens-in-space-announces-payloads-for-first-space-mission/
Citizens in Space announces the successful completion of a high-altitude balloon flight, the first in a series of missions to test hardware designed to fly on the Lynx spacecraft from XCOR Aerosp...
http://www.citizensinspace.org/2015/08/balloon-flight-paves-way-for-future-space-experiments/
Citizens in Space will present papers at two small-satellite conferences this month. On Thursday, 23 April 2015, Citizens in Space project manager Edward Wright will address the 12th Annual Cube...
http://www.citizensinspace.org/2015/04/citizens-in-space-at-small-satellite-conferences/
Boeing will name its first commercial astronaut this summer, according to an article in Space News. The Boeing astronaut will be one of two persons to fly the CST-100 capsule on its first crewe...
http://www.citizensinspace.org/2015/04/boeing-to-name-first-company-astronaut/
At a press conference on Monday, United Launch Alliance CEO Tony Bruno unveiled long-awaited plans for the company’s next-generation launch system. The new launcher, designed to replace the Bo...
http://www.citizensinspace.org/2015/04/ula-unveils-vulcan-rocket-new-vision-of-distributed-lift/
XCOR Aerospace has announced the appointment of John H. (Jay) Gibson II as its new president and chief executive officer. Gibson succeeds Jeff Greason, who will continue with the company as c...
http://www.citizensinspace.org/2015/03/xcor-aerospace-announces-new-ceo/
NASA has released a new desktop application for asteroid detection, developed by NASA and Planetary Resources Inc. based on an algorithm from NASA’s Asteroid Data Hunter Challenge. Amateur astr...
http://www.citizensinspace.org/2015/03/new-desktop-application-for-asteroid-detection/
Southwest Research Institute scientists Dan Durda spoke about suborbital spaceflight at the TEDxBoulder conference.
http://www.citizensinspace.org/2015/03/dan-durda-on-the-coming-age-of-suborbital-spaceflight/