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In July I reported about a chat (can't really call it a press conference or briefing) a small group of UK journalists including me had with Space Exploration Technologies' chief executive Elon Musk after he spoke at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London My blog post talked about $80 million to go

California-based SpaceX has gone where no space startup has gone before - it has launched the first privately funded liquid-fuel rocket to orbit the Earth.  Coming barely a day after China’s successful Shenzou-7 launch and spacewalk, this makes for an exciting weekend.

SpaceX has delayed its fourth launch attempt of its Falcon I rocket after the commercial space startup decided to replace a part in the rocket’s second stage engine. “This adds a few extra days to the schedule, so the updated...

Click through to the extended section of this blog post to watch the Space Exploration Technologies' COTS movie NASA's commercial crew and cargo guys tell me this video has not been released yet and that they haven't 'leaked' it to the web themselves either so I am going to claim boldly that it is

Click through to the extended section of this blog post to watch the Orbital Sciences COTS movie NASA's commercial crew and cargo guys tell me this video has not been released yet and that they haven't 'leaked' it to the web themselves either so I am going to claim boldly that it is an exclusive

I tell you, I have been over at Punkin Patch, a relatively new store that focuses on selling baby gear for whimsical nurseries, and over there, there is no credit crunch going on as they have some seeeeriously expensive cots and cribs!

All over Texas, the Red Cross has opened shelters to house people whose homes were destroyed in Hurricane Ike. About 42,000 people slept in the shelters Saturday, and many are still using the cots lined up in gymnasiums, schools and churches — including a church in Brazoria, a small town about an hour south of Houston.

Coleman Converta-Cot's price decreased by 67% from $42.99 to $14.11 at Amazon.com. > ... click (more...) link for details ... Sale Price: $14.11, Vendor: Amazon.com Full Details > Sale Price: $14.11, Vendor: Amazon.com and/or Amazon.com Merchants [sniplet Amazon.com]

Click here to go to the webpage to see the Quicktime clip NASA has produced two CGI movies of a Space Exploration Technologies and an Orbital Sciences commercial orbital transportation service demonstration programme mission NASA has not released the videos yet but I have copies of both videos and I am waiting for the OK to post them.

credit: NASA The AIAA SPACE 2008 conference saw an update yesterday on the progress with NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services demonstration programme. I was a bit bemused with this slide above as it seems to me to be rather hard to undertake COTS crew capability D activities when the