Space Symposium

For 33 years leaders from both the commercial and governmental sides of space exploration have gathered at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado Springs, Colorado to show off their best tech. Here are some some of the highlights of this year's annual Space Symposium.

This year's Space Symposium, had some impressive technology on display, most notably the replicas of Blue Origin's space capsule and a simulator for Boeing's Starliner. We got a chance to check them both out and take a peek at the future of commercial space travel.​

With mighty aspirations comes a need for mighty rockets. That was theme of the "Heavy Lift" panel that took the stage at the 33rd annual Space Symposium in Colorado today and New Atlas was on hand to find out more about space telescopes, the Blue Moon project and the "tyranny of the fairing."

There has been a lot of talk about government partnerships with commercial entities at the Space Symposium in Colorado, not least of which was the announcement that Orbital ATK is in major standing to compete for a US Air Force contract for a new rocket system to deliver payloads to space.