Sea-based launches are hitting their stride. That could lead to a lot more space missions with a lot less red tape.

A SpaceX rocket has blasted off from Florida carrying two privately constructed lunar landers and a micro rover to the Moon. The uncrewed Falcon 9 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket blasted off Thursday from a launchpad near Cape ... milestone for Bezos and a step toward catching up to rival space entrepreneur Elon Musk.

The 59-foot-tall Electron rocket will lift off from Launch Complex ... Read more: Sign up to Mirror US's SMS updates for the latest straight from the newsroom For all the latest on news, politics ...

This is the third time this week I’ve been up in the very early hours to see if Blue Origin’s rocket will blast off. The chances are looking good this morning, but as we've just posted ...

Two private missions heading for the moon have blasted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The lunar landers launched in the middle of the night from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre and are the latest to ...

and Rocket Lab -- trail far behind. Like Musk, Bezos has a lifelong passion for space. But where Musk dreams of colonizing Mars, Bezos envisions shifting heavy industry off-planet onto floating ...