NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore recently said that politics has nothing to do with why he and his crewmate, Suni Williams, are still in space.

Three European aerospace companies want to join up Elon Musk’s SpaceX, setting up an early test of whether Europe is serious about creating global industrial gia

In 2020, the European Space Agency signed a contract with Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to "purchase a unique service: the first-ever removal of an item of space debris from orbit," according to ESA. C

Participants in the March 10 SXSW panel include Firefly CEO Jason Kim and Regina Blue, the deputy programmatic manager for NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, or CLPS for short. CLPS books rides for agency science gear on private landers. Blue Ghost is flying under the CLPS banner, like Odysseus and Athena (though Resilience is not).

After nine months in power, the government’s plans for public investment into Britain’s space industry are still vague. In the meantime, it’s up to events like the Space-Comm Expo at the Excel Centre (11-12 March) to stir public interest and boost private investment.