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Wired July 2003 Carl Hoffman	The Right Stuff Forget cyberspace. Geeks are about to conquer outer space. And the $10 million X Prize is just the beginning.
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 Otis Port	Gentlemen, Start Your Rockets The race for space is heating up as private outfits head for the launchpad. The business community is now starting to look hard at suborbital tourism to make sure they don't miss an opportunity.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Opens, NASA Sponsors $2 Million Prize X Prize has opened registration and outlined the rules for the $2 million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, which calls for teams to design and develop a vehicle to simulate trips between the moon's surface and lunar orbit.
BusinessWeek February 2, 2004 Otis Port	Space Travel: Bringing Costs Down To Earth NASA should give startups room to maneuver
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Glenn Harlan Reynolds	Future of the Space Business: How Private Rocketeers Got Real To achieve liftoff at this watershed moment when they could begin to usurp NASA's stranglehold on space, billionaires rely on the propulsive power of profit in an industry based on competition and smarts.
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Jetting Through Space President Bush announced on Jan. 4, 2004, his vision to return humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. Without the Cold War era impetus, however, NASA is searching for new ways to motivate development of innovative new vehicles to fly humans to the moon.
Inc. January 2005 David H. Freedman	Entrepreneur of the Year In the entrepreneurial achievement of 2004, Burt Rutan became the first private businessman to launch human beings into space. His ultimate goal: to make space flight routine -- and turn a big profit.
Popular Mechanics September 2009	Behind the Scenes With the World's Most Ambitious Rocket Makers In late 2001, Tom Mueller was sacrificing his nights and weekends to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine in his garage.
Popular Mechanics December 9, 2009 Rand Simberg	Virgin Galactic's Unveil Is Tip of the Iceberg for Private Spaceflight The ability to fly experimenters and their experiments into suborbit, regularly and cheaply, could be a game changer in terms of research progress.
Popular Mechanics August 2008 Joe Pappalardo	New Area 51: Mojave's Desert Outpost Holds Space Flight's Future With mysterious test flights, secret prototypes and next-gen spacecraft, this remote California airfield has become the hotbed of rebel aerospace.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Sandra Upson	Rockets For The Red Planet Engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back
Popular Mechanics April 2003 Paul Eisenstein	Biggest Engine Ever Built It was the largest, most powerful rocket ever built and, having served as the launch platform for the Apollo manned moon mission, probably qualifies as the most famous rocket as well.
Wired September 13, 2007 Spencer Reiss	Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon Google will award $20 million to the first private team to put a robot on the moon.
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2007 Rand Simberg	Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon.
Popular Mechanics October 28, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Rooting for NASA's Ares I Rockets: Analysis This week, all eyes were on NASA as it conducted the first flight of the Ares I, the first launch vehicle the agency designed since the Space Shuttle. October also witnessed progress in other space launches
The Motley Fool September 14, 2007 Tim Beyers	To the Moon, Google! Google puts up a $30 million cash prize to whoever can explore 500 meters of the lunar surface and transmit high-definition video back to Earth before December 31, 2012.
Wired January 2005 Spencer Reiss	Rocket Man Richard Branson conquered the world with the Virgin brand. Now, through a deal being negotiated with SpaceShipOne's owners, he wants to fly you to space with Virgin Galactic, the world's first off-the-planet private airline.
Wired December 2004	After the X Prize Manned space travel's best hope is the private sector, not NASA. In the open market, entrepreneurs and space hobbyists will do in a decade what NASA couldn't do in 46 years: provide safe, reliable trips to the heavens for the cost of a Caribbean cruise.
Wired October 20, 2008 Preston Lerner	Pyro Geek Hobbyists Experiment With Homebrew Rockets The Association of Rocket Mavericks is a group of amateur rocketeers that are the top guns of model rocketry and may be the future innovators of the aerospace industry.
Fast Company January 2006 Michael A. Prospero	Fuel for Thought Philanthropist Peter Diamandis' $10 million X Prize proved that money can drive big ideas. Now he's looking for more of them in other fields, from nanotech to education.
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 James Oberg	Private Spaceflight: Up, Up, and Away This year, commercial spaceflight will really take off
BusinessWeek August 6, 2007 Christopher Palmeri	Space: The Private Frontier "Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots is Boldly Privatizing Space" is a worthwhile overview of the budding business of space travel.
BusinessWeek September 24, 2007 Ronald Grover	Gentlemen, Start Your Rockets A group of space entrepreneurs is trying to get the Rocket Racing League off the launchpad.
Popular Mechanics September 2007 David Noland	The 'New Space' Race: Handicapping the Billionaire Rocketeers Fueled by interest in space tourism, as well as NASA contracts to replace the shuttle in 2010, the private "New Space" industry is finally looking like the real thing.
Popular Mechanics November 25, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	4 Wildly High-Tech Military and NASA Research Projects The Army and NASA are developing projects that will aid in understanding lunar conditions, rocket fuel development, and creating robots for space exploration
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson	Desert Airport Becomes Home to New Breed of Space Entrepreneurs While there has been much consternation about the erosion of the space-industrial base in the United States, the facility shows that the field still attracts entrepreneurs who are enthralled by the glamour and challenge of space travel.
Wired May 22, 2009 Sarah Douglas	NASA's Icy-Hot Rocket Engine Rocket engines don't get much cooler than this.
Wired May 2003 Tom McNichol	The Race Back to the Moon Astropreneurs are counting down for a return to Apollo country. The first small step: a satellite atlas of the lunar surface. The next giant leap: ice mining, helium farming, and a launchpad to the solar system.
Popular Mechanics July 14, 2008	Inside Mojave Air and Space Port: Photo & Video Gallery Think you've seen the future of private spaceflight? Think again. Take a look at the freewheeling desert outpost where maverick engineers are inventing the next generation of planes.
Popular Mechanics August 2009 Aldrin & Noland	Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Stone	Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space
Wired June 2006 Adam Rogers	The Challenger When Peter Diamandis gave the $10 million Ansari X Prize to the SpaceShipOne crew in 2004, he did more than build excitement about private space travel.
Scientific American February 6, 2006 Patrick DiJusto	Winner Takes All New technology prizes are designed to spur innovation and challenge entrepreneurs to do something that outstrips the state-of-the-art in return for a sizable payoff. But is basic research being prized out of the market?
Popular Mechanics September 11, 2009 Andrew Moseman	How to Make a (More) Environmentally Friendly Rocket Fuel Every NASA space shuttle launch leaves a huge cloud of exhaust in its wake, and some nasty chemicals lurk in the exhaust.
InternetNews October 20, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Streaming to The Moon Space enthusiasts compete for $2.5M and a trip to the moon, and it's all to be streamed live.
BusinessWeek November 20, 2008 Steve LeVine	Can X Prizes Spur Innovation? Contests such as Peter Diamandis' X Prizes offer big purses for breakthrough ideas. But can prize money do more to stimulate innovation than existing incentives?
Popular Mechanics May 12, 2008 Michael Milstein	NASA Makes Space U-Turn, Opening Arms to Private Industry The agency seems to be shifting course, as NASA officials insist that the budding commercial spacecraft fleet represents the only way the United States can realize its dreams of solar-system conquest on schedule and at an affordable cost.
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson	It's Not All Bad News When It Comes to the Health of the U.S. Space Industrial Base The health and welfare of the companies that produce spacecraft, payloads, rockets and ground stations for everyone from NASA to intelligence agencies has been the source of much hand-wringing during the past few years.
Fast Company January 9, 2012 Emma Haak	Private Spacecrafts Are Your Transportation, Your Scientists, And Your Real Estate Brokers In the absence of NASA's Space Shuttle Program, private companies are left to fill the black hole of space exploration. Now, 50 years after John Glenn orbited the Earth, some very different kinds of explorers are leading the way.
Popular Mechanics February 8, 2010 Rand Simberg	The New NASA: A Path To Anywhere, And Everywhere The author believes that NASA's new path, outlined by the president's budget, holds promise of real progress.
BusinessWeek June 21, 2004 Otis Port	Private Space Travel: We May Have Liftoff If all goes well on June 21, the world's first private space plane will have shot 62 miles up into space before gliding back to land at the Mojave airport north of Los Angeles, launching a new revolution in space tourism.
Popular Mechanics April 27, 2009 Davin Coburn	Rocket Record: The Largest, Heaviest Amateur Rocket Ever Launched Steve Eves broke two world records Saturday, when his 36-ft tall, 1,648 lb rocket was the largest and heaviest amateur rocket ever launched and recovered successfully.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Rhea	Money for space Space exploration is becoming politically fashionable again, and advanced technology firms would be well advised to get on board while the getting is good.
The Motley Fool January 10, 2005 Tim Beyers	Stocks' Final Frontier As we reach for the stars, are there opportunities for investors in the new space race?
Wired December 20, 2007 Mathew Honan	The X Prize Ecosystem Giving cash Prizes for solutions to thorny problems turns out to be a great way to tap the talents of geeks everywhere.
Entrepreneur September 2006 Steve Cooper	Eye on the Prize Are you trying to develop the next big thing? Enlist help from bright minds outside your company by throwing in a prize.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2006 Tim Beyers	Countdown to Moon Madness NASA targets 2008 for the next lunar landing. This could be a be a boon to big contractors such as Lockheed Martin, but smaller manufacturers such as Ball Aerospace may stand to gain an outsized share as well. Investors, take note.
Popular Mechanics November 2006 Logan Ward	Burt Rutan: Final Frontiersman Rutan is working to make space travel cheap enough-and safe enough-for ordinary people to experience. If anyone can pull that off, says Apollo 11 astronaut and PM editorial adviser Buzz Aldrin, it's probably Rutan.
Popular Mechanics May 12, 2008 Matt Sullivan	Debating NASA vs. DIY Rocketeers, Lunar Real Estate and the Open-Source X Prize: My Own Private Space PODCAST Is the private sector about to overtake NASA in space?
Popular Mechanics April 2005 Tom Clynes	Playing With Fire When they burn space shuttle fuel, hit speeds of mach 2 and climb to 15,000 ft., do you still call them model rockets? Welcome to the world of extreme hobbies.