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The Motley Fool
February 2, 2010
Tim Beyers |
This Rule Breaker Is Otherworldly Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is one of five companies that will share $50 million in stimulus funds designed to create commercial space vehicles that NASA will use to ferry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit.   |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2011
Rich Smith |
Boeing Wins Race to Space NASA doles out $270 million to Boeing and other shuttle replacement contenders. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2011
Rich Smith |
Galactic Overlords Adopt American Orphan Boeing and Lockheed Martin turn to XCOR Aerospace. |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2008
Rich Smith |
Cosmic Wannabe Finds a Friend on Earth The race to win a $3.1 billion NASA-funded contract to supply the International Space Station (ISS) just took a turn for the surreal. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Will Take To The Skies Again Next Week CEO Elon Musk confirmed via Twitter that SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket around December 19. |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2008
Rich Smith |
NASA Rejects Trojan Horse Resupply contracts for the International Space Station go to established players Orbital Sciences and SpaceX. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
McGarry & Capaccio |
The Air Force Kicks Off a New Space Race Lockheed Martin and Boeing may lose from the Air Force's plan to open the $9.9 billion satellite launch business to competition. |
Entrepreneur
April 2005
Mark Henricks |
Space Cowboys High-profile entrepreneurs pursue the final frontier. |
Fast Company
Nikita Richardson |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Just Came A Step Closer To Carrying Humans To Space Between Boeing, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Xcor, and Blue Origin, the private space race is fully underway. |
Fast Company
Christina Farr |
SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Is "Ready to Fire Again" The Falcon 9 rocket carried a payload of 11 satellites to orbit last month and returned to Earth with a vertical landing Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. |
BusinessWeek
December 12, 2005
Stan Crock |
The Final Frontier At Costco Prices SpaceX aims to cut the frills and offer bargain satellite launches. |
National Defense
July 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Launch Contract Dispute Pits SpaceX Against Air Force, ULA A dispute between rocket-builder SpaceX and the Air Force over launch contracts came to the fore when the company's founder, Elon Musk announced a lawsuit directed at the service. |
Fast Company
February 2005
Jennifer Reingold |
Hondas in Space The ex-CEO of PayPal is spending a fortune to prove you can build rockets faster, cheaper, and better. Innovation, it seems, isn't always rocket science. |
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
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. |
InternetNews
April 9, 2009
David Needle |
Tesla Motors CEO Unplugged Elon Musk said the dashboard of the next Tesla electric car will be "like a giant iPhone." |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Bezos: Up, Up, and Away! The Amazon founder is about to reach for the stars. His company, Blue Origin, will go head-to-head with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic in seeking to take adventuresome tourists to the precipice of orbit before returning to Earth. |
IndustryWeek
September 14, 2011 |
Cost in Space NASA is encouraging U.S. companies to create vessels capable of transporting cargo on the 'final frontier.' |
Popular Mechanics
January 6, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
Private Space on Pace to Run NASA's Space Supply NASA contracts to private space companies represents a shift away from government-run space hardware toward rockets and spaceships designed and operated by the private sector. |
Fast Company
Rose Pastore |
Elon Musk Had A Snarky Reply To Jeff Bezos's First Tweet Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sent his very first tweet, which announced the successful launch and landing of a New Shepard rocket built by Bezos's space company, Blue Origin. |
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. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Will Test Reusable Spacecraft Later This Year The company's New Shepard reusable capsule is designed to eventually carry tourists and science experiments to the edge of space. |
Fast Company
March 2014
Jon Gertner |
Why Companies Are Lining Up To Test Golf Clubs (And Other Products) On The Space Station Since its launch the space station has mainly served as a place in which astronauts from NASA and foreign space agencies conduct experiments involving health and the physical sciences. It was never intended to help private companies improve their products and market share. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Blue Origin Lifts Off Bezos' prototype spacecraft nicknamed Goddard climbed to 285 feet before descending back to Earth. That's an important step forward on a long path toward the heavens. History teaches that billion-dollar innovations are created slowly. |
Inc.
December 2007
Max Chafkin |
Entrepreneur of the Year: Elon Musk Electric sports cars. Solar power. Space travel. Finally, an entrepreneur who's not afraid to think really, really big. |
Fast Company
February 2005
Jennifer Reingold |
How to Innovate Faster, Cheaper, Better At Space Exploration Technologies, innovation is measured in small, incremental improvements. Here's how they do it. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Michael Belfiore |
7 International Spacecraft that Could Replace NASA's Shuttle NASA's Orion won't be ready until at least 2015, but the current space shuttle is due to retire next year. Meet the seven international spacecraft from the world's space fleet that could inherit the job of ferrying supplies into space. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2011
Brian Stoffel |
Space Travel, Anyone? This could be the future of the aerospace industry. |
Inc.
December 2007
Max Chafkin |
The Companies of Elon Musk How the Entrepreneur of the Year does business and makes waves. |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
Lockheed Blasts Off A new NASA contract increases Lockheed Martin's advantage over rival Boeing. Investors, take note. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 30, 2004
Tim Beyers |
A New Space Race New exploration of the moon, Mars, and beyond may be decades away, but investors should seek to profit from it now. |
National Defense
June 2008
Breanne Wagner |
Low-Cost Space Launch Vehicles Await Liftoff A new generation of small rockets may fulfill the Air Force's goal of creating a market for low-cost space launches. |
The Motley Fool
May 21, 2010
Rich Smith |
GM Is Dead. Long Live Tesla! Could Tesla Motors replace General Motors as the standard-bearer of American automaking? Tesla has just established its first small beachhead on GM's turf. |
Inc.
December 2008 |
2008: A Closer Look A look at a private rocket company, Michael Phelps' mom, and the marketers of the year. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Otis Port |
Space Travel: Bringing Costs Down To Earth NASA should give startups room to maneuver |
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? |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2007
Rich Smith |
Turn on Your Space Radar Following NASA's discovery of a new solar system similar to our own, discover these companies engaging in space exploration: Boeing... Lockheed... Limited Technology... Raytheon... General Electric... L - 3... Northrop Grumman... |
AskMen.com
Tyson Lowrie |
Elon Musk AMA The South African billionaire Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, PayPal, Tesla, and all-around superhuman, hosted a reddit ask me anything session yesterday. |
AskMen.com
Alex Bracetti |
Elon Musk Life Lessons Life lessons every man can learn from entrepreneur Elon Musk, who created Tesla and SpaceX. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Elon Musk |
Risky Business Why Mars is more important than cosmetics and why a failed launch is also a partial success |
Scientific American
October 2007 |
Racing past the Moon Today competition matters less than conquering space. |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Rest in...Space? Privately held SpaceX plans to offer space burials. Rule-breaking industries develop when what was thought to be the domain of the privileged becomes accessible to all. |
National Defense
July 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Experimental Rockets Boost Expectations of Lower Costs The Air Force is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA to develop simpler and less expensive launch vehicles. |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Marriage of Convenience Lockheed Martin and Boeing to join forces on U.S. government rocket contracts. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
Investors Win, Taxpayers Lose in Aerospace Merger The Boeing-Lockheed Martin monopoly could lead to higher prices and lower quality. Investors, take note. |
Popular Mechanics
June 19, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
7 Expert Answers for How Big Business Will Spend Cash in Space At the first-ever Space Business Forum in New York, leading rocket scientists, military officers and even hedge-fund managers crunched the numbers to illuminate the future of the space industry. |
Popular Mechanics
February 1, 2010
Michael Belfiore |
Human Space Flight Needn't Rely on NASA: Guest Analysis Is Obama's just-released NASA budget the "death march for the future of U.S. human space flight," as Senator Richard Shelby proclaims on his website today? Or is it in fact a new beginning for the space agency? |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
James Oberg |
Private Spaceflight: Up, Up, and Away This year, commercial spaceflight will really take off |
Fast Company
Rose Pastore |
SpaceX Spaceport In Texas Gets FAA Go-Ahead Under the FAA decision, SpaceX may conduct 12 commercial launches per year through 2025. |
