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The sleek new space pod dreamed up by inventor Elon Musk can land and takeoff vertically and can withstand mutliple trips.

Information gathered by planetary and deep space craft may soon be streaming back to Earth in the form of a laser rather than by radio waves.

Grasshopper reached an altitude of 263 feet before returning to Earth in a soft landing.

The last piece of cargo was unloaded from the Dragon space capsule today.

The spacecraft was captured by the space station's robotic arm

SpaceX's Falcon 9 executed a "static fire" engine test to prep for Friday's launch of the Dragon capsule.

The Antares rocket built by Orbital Sciences Corp., will launch unmanned Cygnus cargo ships to the International Space Station.

Dennis Tito's nonprofit organization may want to launch astronauts toward the Red Planet in 2018.

SpaceX's Dragon capsule will be making its second contracted supply run.

The burgeoning industry should help create new technologies and bring launch costs down.

NASA has signed a $17.8 million deal with Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace for one of its expandable modules.

Private spacecraft from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and others are poised for major test in 2013.

SpaceX's Grasshopper reusable rocket prototype flew 12-stories up during its third test flight.

SpaceX, Boeing and Sierra Nevada each get about $10 million to start certifying their spaceships.

Elon Musk wants to help put 80,000 people on the Red Planet.

The private spaceflight company SpaceX aims to make a fully reusable spacecraft.

The space agency will likely continue working to get astronauts to an asteroid by 2025.