Anousheh Ansari captured headlines around the world as the first female private space explorer and earned a place in history as the fourth private explorer to visit space and the first astronaut of Iranian descent.

Event Date: 2/6/2015

"Space is not what it used to be." This might sound like a lament for the golden days of Mercury and Apollo, but actually it refers to an emerging recognition that the space sector is undergoing revolutionary changes that could bring similar dreams to the fore once more. But it's not the Governments and their agencies setting the vision, with their budgets ever more constrained. Increasingly, it is the private sector that is leading the way with commercial businesses, both large and small, finding new ways to capitalize on the technologies developed over the last 60 years, and bringing a whole new class of products and services to the market-both up in space and down here on the ground.

Event Date: 1/14/2015

Over the course of 2014 science writer, Eric Berger looked at NASA's building of a big new rocket, the collapse of the Constellation program, Congressional infighting for funds, shifting priorities of successive White House administrations, the promise of private space companies and, ultimately, the fate of Houston as Space City. This is what he found...

Event Date: 11/19/2014