“We have confirmation of splashdown of the Dragon spacecraft.” “Copy, Stable One. We see main chutes cut. On behalf of SpaceX, welcome home.” Advertisement 2:02 0:20 0:54 Advertisement NOW ...

When the Dragon spacecraft launched Tuesday atop a Falcon 9 rocket, the vehicle carried the private astronauts further into space than humans have reached in more than half a century. Two days ...

For the five decades following the 1957 launch of Sputnik I, spaceflight had been almost entirely centralized under huge state enterprises such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...