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Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Erik Sofge |
Rocket Racing League Struggles to Get Off the Ground A promising new aerial sport stalled at the X Prize Cup. Instead of a demo race, the league unveiled a nonworking rocket-plane mockup and sent a single jet around an aerial course.   |
BusinessWeek
September 24, 2007
Ronald Grover |
Gentlemen, Start Your Rockets A group of space entrepreneurs is trying to get the Rocket Racing League off the launchpad. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Blue Origin Lifts Off Bezos' prototype spacecraft nicknamed Goddard climbed to 285 feet before descending back to Earth. That's an important step forward on a long path toward the heavens. History teaches that billion-dollar innovations are created slowly. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Bezos: Up, Up, and Away! The Amazon founder is about to reach for the stars. His company, Blue Origin, will go head-to-head with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic in seeking to take adventuresome tourists to the precipice of orbit before returning to Earth. |
InternetNews
October 20, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Streaming to The Moon Space enthusiasts compete for $2.5M and a trip to the moon, and it's all to be streamed live. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Will Test Reusable Spacecraft Later This Year The company's New Shepard reusable capsule is designed to eventually carry tourists and science experiments to the edge of space. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Space Adventures Ready for Blast-Off The privately held space tourism outfit buys its own rocketry technology. Are we witnessing the birth of the first space lines? |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Marriage of Convenience Lockheed Martin and Boeing to join forces on U.S. government rocket contracts. |
Fast Company
Nikita Richardson |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Just Came A Step Closer To Carrying Humans To Space Between Boeing, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Xcor, and Blue Origin, the private space race is fully underway. |
Entrepreneur
April 2005
Mark Henricks |
Space Cowboys High-profile entrepreneurs pursue the final frontier. |
The Motley Fool
January 10, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Stocks' Final Frontier As we reach for the stars, are there opportunities for investors in the new space race? |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2011
Rich Smith |
Galactic Overlords Adopt American Orphan Boeing and Lockheed Martin turn to XCOR Aerospace. |
Popular Mechanics
July 29, 2008
Barbara S. Peterson |
What Virgin's WhiteKnightTwo Really Means to the Future of Space Even with prototypes now just about ready to fly, how relevant is this self-styled New Space Race? |
InternetNews
October 27, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Silicon Valley Goes Into Orbit Got a few extra million just burning a hole in your pocket? A number of Silicon Valley pioneers are spending their spare change for a ticket into space. |
Popular Mechanics
July 14, 2008 |
Inside Mojave Air and Space Port: Photo & Video Gallery Think you've seen the future of private spaceflight? Think again. Take a look at the freewheeling desert outpost where maverick engineers are inventing the next generation of planes. |
BusinessWeek
March 5, 2007
Brian Hindo |
Working Out With Carl Edwards NASCAR driver Carl Edwards needs endurance for every life-and-death second of a four-hour race. |
Sports Illustrated
April 21, 2000
Mark Bechtel |
Feel free to boo Racing could use more Gordon-Earnhardt rivalries |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Virgin Takes Two Billionaire Sir Richard Branson sets his sights on the stars as work begins on SpaceShipTwo. |
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004
Otis Port |
Gentlemen, Start Your Rockets The race for space is heating up as private outfits head for the launchpad. The business community is now starting to look hard at suborbital tourism to make sure they don't miss an opportunity. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2004
Seth Jayson |
SpaceDev Burns Rubber This is hardly a risk-free investment, but if you're the kind of person who wants to have a share of Harley-Davidson or Disney because you're a fan, here's your chance to own a bit of the next space race. |
Popular Mechanics
December 9, 2009
Rand Simberg |
Virgin Galactic's Unveil Is Tip of the Iceberg for Private Spaceflight The ability to fly experimenters and their experiments into suborbit, regularly and cheaply, could be a game changer in terms of research progress. |
Fast Company
Rose Pastore |
Elon Musk Had A Snarky Reply To Jeff Bezos's First Tweet Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sent his very first tweet, which announced the successful launch and landing of a New Shepard rocket built by Bezos's space company, Blue Origin. |
Popular Mechanics
March 26, 2008
Matt Sullivan |
California Startup XCOR Joins Space Tourism Race (With Video) Rocket engine manufacturer XCOR Aerospace offered a first look at its Lynx spacecraft, a uniquely designed two-seat plane that will be able to make several trips to space per day. |
Wired
January 2005
Spencer Reiss |
Rocket Man Richard Branson conquered the world with the Virgin brand. Now, through a deal being negotiated with SpaceShipOne's owners, he wants to fly you to space with Virgin Galactic, the world's first off-the-planet private airline. |
Sports Illustrated
July 14, 2000
Mark Bechtel |
Taking NASCAR 'North of the Border' Our first letter comes from a fan lobbying for a NASCAR race in the Great White North, a notion I stand firmly behind. |
Wired
July 2003
Carl Hoffman |
The Right Stuff Forget cyberspace. Geeks are about to conquer outer space. And the $10 million X Prize is just the beginning. |
Sports Illustrated
July 7, 2000
Mark Bechtel |
Trying to get along Standing firm despite the noodle treatment |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006
Hutchinson et al. |
Tech Watch All eyes on Mars... Making gas from cows... Distinguishing between an asteroid and planet... Rearview helmet... Fighting friendly fire... Rocket-powered planes... |
CFO
December 1, 2006
Kate O'Sullivan |
A CFO for the Sunshine State The citizens of Florida elected Democrat Adelaide "Alex" Sink, the former president of Bank of America's Florida operations, as the state's new finance chief... Rocket Man... |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Virgin Starts (70) Mile-High Club Airline entrepreneur Richard Branson aims to take his company to the final frontier. Virgin Galactic will allow tourists to enjoy 4 minutes of weightlessness in space. |
Popular Mechanics
February 6, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
Win a Private Space Flight for $20--Pending Success of Commercial Spaceflight Sir Richard Branson hopes to offer tickets to ride in orbit for around $200,000. But new contests are promising flights for as little as $20. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Leagues The top five richest pro sports leagues. |
Inc.
June 1, 2002
Andrew Raskin |
Dossier: Secrets From the Fast Lane Everyone talks about doing business at breakneck speed. Few mean it quite so literally as Eddie Cheever Jr., the only Indy Racing League driver who owns a majority stake in his own team and manages its business side... |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
David Schneider |
Virgin Galactic Space Planes Should Launch This Year $200,000 buys you a seat and the end result should be something science-fiction writers have long dreamed of: regularly scheduled passenger flights into space. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2006
Stephen Ellis |
International Speedway Speeds Away The motor-sports promoter delivers some checkered-flag-worthy results. Does the company look promising as an investment? |
BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004
Otis Port |
Private Space Travel: We May Have Liftoff If all goes well on June 21, the world's first private space plane will have shot 62 miles up into space before gliding back to land at the Mojave airport north of Los Angeles, launching a new revolution in space tourism. |
CFO
August 1, 2007
John Goff |
A Wild Ride Is Nascar finally beginning to slow down? For CFOs at other businesses, the typical response to rising costs amid a market slowdown would be to limit budget increases. But for many teams, winning is the only KPI that matters. |
Popular Mechanics
February 13, 2009
John Pearley Huffman |
Daytona's Top Ten NASCAR Stock Cars Here's a look back at ten of the greatest stock cars ever to have cast their shadow across the Daytona International Speedway pavement. |
The Motley Fool
February 4, 2009
Chris Jones |
International Speedway's Sputtering Future If the economy hurts NASCAR, this racetrack operator will suffer, too. |
