Private spaceflight

Blue Origin's next suborbital flight is scheduled to launch on Saturday (May 31), carrying a diverse crew of educators, entrepreneurs and adventurers.

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' aerospace company, is targeting Saturday (May 31) for its 12th human spaceflight mission.

SpaceX has completed its investigation into what went wrong during the eighth test flight its Starship rocket, which ended in an explosion over the Bahamas.

Virgin Galactic remains on track to bring its new "Delta-class" space plane into commercial service next year, company representatives said.

Blue Origin has revealed the identities of the six passengers who will fly on the company's 12th human spaceflight mission. A target date has not yet been announced.

Axiom Space has completed the Flight Readiness Review for its upcoming launch of private astronauts to the International Space Station on June 8.

Houston company Axiom Space's next astronaut launch to the International Space Station, a mission called Ax-4, has been pushed back by 10 days, to June 8.

The FAA has approved SpaceX's request to increase the maximum number of Starship launches from its Starbase site in South Texas per year from five to 25.

SpaceX's Fram2 captured stunning views of the Earth as the mission's private astronauts became the first to orbit over the planet's polar regions.

People who live near SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas voted on Saturday (May 3) to incorporate the Starship launch as a manufacturing hub as a city.