Public Affairs: Bell Pottinger Lobbies for More Space Project Cash
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By David Singleton  The British space industry has brought in Bell Pottinger Public Affairs as it looks to persuade the Government to spend more on space exploration.   UKSpace, the trade association of the space industry, has appointed the agency following a three-way pitch.
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A Californian-based team is halfway to claiming a $10 million prize by putting a privately financed manned craft into sub-orbital space.
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The U.S. team that took the first privately funded, manned ship into space makes a bid to capture a &#36;10 million prize this week -- signaling that commercial space travel has nearly arrived.
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NASA is looking to share unused space aboard the International Space Station for science experiments, officials said.
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By ALICIA CHANG  LOS ANGELES - A man who gave up a free space ride because he couldn't afford the taxes on the contest prize may be going to the cosmos after all.
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WASHINGTON -- Boeing Space Exploration of Houston nabbed its second major role on NASA's new astronaut launcher, winning a contract potentially worth $800 million to build and outfit an avionics ring that will control the Ares I rocket in flight.
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Bill Gerstenmaier from NASA&#39;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, has been manager of the International Space Station (ISS) programme for just over two years.
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By Amanda Ricker, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 14--An Oklee, Minn., teacher is flying high -- all the way to space camp.
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In the quest for a cheaper route to space, astronauts competing for the X Prize are willing to take risks. But some wonder if blasting off in an untested rocket ship suspended from a giant balloon is taking things too far. By Dan Brekke.
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A Canadian team vying for the $10 million X Prize is scrounging for parts, while the heavy favorite, Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne, is ready for a launch next week. By Dan Brekke.
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MOJAVE, Calif. The builders of SpaceShipOne are trying to decide whether to proceed with another flight into space next week to win the 10 (m) million dollar X Prize.
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Hoping to build on the momentum sparked by SpaceShipOne's dash into space, supporters of opening the heavens to civilians are turning the winner-take-all race into an annual competition that might further fuel imaginations.
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A beefed-up motor will boost the power of a rocket vying for the $10 million human space flight prize. SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded craft to carry a person to the edge of space in June.
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Why does a Canadian artist want to put a giant fruit blimp in low Earth orbit over the Lone Star State? By Lara Crigger.
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KINDERSLEY, Sask. - A representative from a team of Canadian engineers trying to send a privately funded rocket ship into space was in Saskatchewan on Wednesday to set up logistics for a launch that he hopes will happen within the next month.
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Astronaut Pam Melroy has logged more than 560 hours in space. She slowed down long enough Tuesday to discuss the future of space exploration at Stennis Space Center.
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WASHINGTON &mdash; NASA has narrowed the field of private space companies vying for $175 million in public funds the U.S. space agency expects to award in early February for demonstration flights to the International Space Station, according to industry sources closely following the competition.