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FSB: Rocket Town U.S.A.

Outside Hangar 7, the desert and sky stretch as far as you can see, broken only by the distant Tehachapi Mountains and the occasional Joshua tree.

Virgin Galactic keeps low profile after explosion

As a female voice coos, "Welcome to space," six passengers in skintight spacesuits unbuckle their seatbelts and somersault in zero gravity, occasionally peeking back at Earth through the private spaceship's large portholes.

Blast at desert spaceport kills 3

A third person died Friday from an explosion at a rocket test pad operated by a private company in California's southern Mojave Desert, according to the nursing supervisor at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield.

Blast at desert spaceport kills 2, injures 4

An explosion at an airport home to Scaled Composites -- the builder of the first private manned rocket to reach space -- killed two people and left four seriously hurt Thursday, a Kern County Fire Department official says.

Business 2.0: Space tourism race heats up

Jim Benson's ship is called the Dream Chaser, and here's the dream he's chasing: a 50 percent profit margin on revenue of $200 million by 2015 from putting tourists into suborbital space.

Billionaire building flying space pod

A mere three years after Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne skimmed the edge of space to capture the $10-million Ansari X Prize, more than half a dozen companies are furiously building and testing spacecraft designed to take paying passengers on suborbital journeys and beyond.

Breaking the final frontier

Space tourism is being packaged as the ultimate trip -- almost as an extension of a normal flight but with incredible views, the experience of weightlessness and supersonic speeds.

Rocket racing: Next sports league?

It has a jet engine's roar but not the accompanying whine -- just an ear-shattering thunder. And the airplane is far too small, like a Volkswagen with a semi's air horn.

Bigelow gambles on private space station

The Genesis-1 module orbiting the Earth not only transmits its temperature, integrity, power levels and overall health -- it also signals entrepreneurial zeal and private sector spunk.

Business 2.0: Millionaires on the launch pad

By now you'll know whether Elon Musk is the latest hero of the high frontier or still just the co-founder of PayPal. On Feb. 10, the day after this magazine went to press, Musk's latest company -- ...

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