Spaceport America

Incidents, including last year's Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo crash, have led some politicians in New Mexico to question the future of Spaceport America, where Virgin is an anchor tenant, and to even call for the US$200 million facility to be put up for sale.

Arizona-based World View Enterprises has successfully completed its first test flight of a space tourism balloon that, for the price of US$75,000 per person, will lift six passengers into the stratosphere to an altitude of 20 miles (32 km).

Virgin Galactic has has decided which fuel will be used in the first passenger-carrying flights of its suborbital spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo. The solid fuel grains that will power the world’s largest operational hybrid rocket will be a thermoset plastic similar to nylon.

Armadillo Aerospace has been awarded a launch license by the United States FAA for the launch of its STIG B payload-carrying vehicle into suborbital space this s(northern hemisphere) ummer.

Virgin Galactic's first generation of commercial space vehicles now have somewhere to land.

For the first time Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise has left the protective grip of its mothership, VMS Eve, to successfully achieve its first manned free flight.

Space - it's the final frontier of human exploration, a mysterious eternity of distance, all around us and yet so tantalizingly out of reach.