The charge was $40,000. The point I wish to make is that while the Space News article is keyed to Russia flying paying, and working, passengers, the United States did so first.

It won't have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force is set to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft—which looks like a ...

Old Space Shuttle payloads weighed up to 27,500 kilograms (60,600 pounds) in low-Earth orbit missions. The Tenacity spaceplane and the Sierra Space’s Shooting Star™ service module can deliver ...

One shuttle’s name even made reference to the television spacecraft, Enterprise. The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983.