The next twelve months promise to be an exciting time for anyone with an interest in the commercial space industry, as private ventures ramp up their efforts to pull off a crewed test mission in accordance with stated timelines. (spaceangels.com)
The FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation regulates and facilitates commercial space launches and reentries like those of the successful SpaceX test mission last month, which was part of NASA's commercial cargo program. (spacepolicyonline.com)
Deep Space 1, an engineering test mission launched by NASA in 1998, demonstrated that an ion engine could be used to move around the solar system. (discovermagazine.com)