Featured on NPR and PBS's SciTech Now, and in Fast Company, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal The inside story of the new race to conquer space For the outsize personalities staking their fortunes on spaceships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity-or the key to humanity's survival. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos take center stage in this fast-paced narrative as they attempt to disrupt the space economy and feed their...

The Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicles (SRLV) and Emerging Markets report provides the first comprehensive assessment by the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST) of the commercial suborbital reusable launch industry in the United States. This document reviews three key areas in this commercial suborbital renaissance: new markets for suborbital spaceflight, companies that are developing vehicles to...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (AST) regulates the emerging Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) industry. Such regulatory efforts are used only to the extent necessary to ensure that industry activities do not jeopardize public health and safety, safety of property, U.S. national security or foreign policy interests, or international obligations of the U.S. Corresponding to the FAA/ASTs...