CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 15 (UPI) -- A series by UPI examining the people, passions and business of private spaceflight. This week: SpaceShipOne, the winner of the X Prize for private spaceflight, heads to the National Air and Space Museum for retirement and display.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A series by UPI exploring the people, the passions and the business of sub-orbital manned spaceflight. This week: With the first commercial passenger spaceflights expected before the next presidential election, the U.S. government weighed in last week wit

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A series by UPI exploring the people, passions and business of sub-orbital manned spaceflight. This week: For years, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has been laboring in secret at his Seattle headquarters on a space-related project known only as Blue Origin

A series by UPI exploring the people, passions and business of sub-orbital manned spaceflight. This week: The birth of a space age was not an easy delivery. U.S. and Russian archives are filled with stories, pictures and grainy videos of rocketry gone awr

A series by United Press International exploring the people, passions and business of sub-orbital manned spaceflight. This week: America now has a second spaceport, christened last week when a high-altitude twin turbojet called White Knight took to the sk

MESQUITE, Texas, June 17 (UPI) -- A Texas rocket builder scored a successful test flight this week in the race to build the world's first private, crewed spacecraft.

A UPI series exploring the people, passions and business of suborbital manned spaceflight. This week: There is a joke making the rounds at commercial space venues that the quickest way to become a millionaire in space is to start out as a billionaire. Des