Virgin Galactic passenger spacecraft completes first rocket-powered flight
News: Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic passenger spacecraft broke the sound barrier during its first rocket-powered flight in California yesterday. More
News: Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic passenger spacecraft broke the sound barrier during its first rocket-powered flight in California yesterday. More
News: a team of London "space architects" has developed a proposal for a lunar base that would be 3D printed by spider robots using microwaves, solar energy and lunar dust. More
News: Foster + Partners is exploring the possibilities of 3D printing buildings on the moon using lunar soil. More
A conceptual space station that was conceived in the 1920s inspired the spiralling structure of this culture and technology centre in Slovenia. More
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with toy company Papafoxtrot to give readers a chance to win one of twenty wooden models of iconic unmanned spacecrafts orbiting the Earth. More
Foster + Partners have completed the world’s first space terminal for tourists in New Mexico. More
This culture and technology centre based on the shape of a space station is under construction in Vitanje, Slovenia, and was designed by Slovenian firms OFIS Arhitekti, Bevk Perovic Arhitekti, Dekleva Gregoric Arhitekti and Sadar Vuga Arhitekti. More
In California yesterday, space tourism company Virgin Galactic unveiled a craft designed to carry passengers on short flights into space. More
Space tourism company Virgin Galactic have unveiled WhiteKnightTwo, a double-fuselaged aircraft that will carry a spaceship to sub-orbital flight. More
Space tourism company Virgin Galactic has unveiled the design of SpaceShipTwo, a craft that will carry eight passengers on short space flights. More
Architects Foster + Partners have won a competition to build the world's first private spaceport in New Mexico. More
Marc Newson has designed the cabin (and, we suspect, had a hand in the exterior) of the Astrium space tourism jet, which was launched at the Paris airshow earlier this summer. More