Dark horse space station company Vast gallops past its rivals with a big astronaut announcement.

Max Space is proposing to develop Thunderbird Station, with a single module that can launch on a Falcon 9 and expand to 350 cubic meters once in orbit. Credit: Max Space WASHINGTON — Max Space, a ...

The next generation of space stations will not be assembled piece by piece like orbital Lego sets. Instead, companies are racing to launch compact capsules that unfurl into vast habitats once they ...

Florida startup Max Space announced its plans to launch a prototype of its commercial space station by 2027, testing its expandable habitat technology that aims to reduce the number of trips needed to ...

Starlab invited Leidos last week to help it build a new international space station. Led by Voyager Technologies, the Starlab group of companies is the biggest and most international team working to ...

The company is establishing a manufacturing facility at Kennedy Space Center and plans to hire 30 to 50 people by mid-2026. A small-scale demonstration mission is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX ...

"He looked me straight in the eye and said, 'the space station is the experiment.'" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...

In this episode of Space Minds, host Mike Gruss sits down with Marshall Smith, CEO of Starlab Space for a fireside chat at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, the next installment of the ...

Commercial space stations are rapidly moving from concept to reality. As NASA prepares for the International Space Station’s retirement around 2030, a burgeoning private orbital industry could step ...

How do you lay out a space station to accommodate life in zero gravity? That's one of the challenges facing Teague, a century-old design firm.