Commercial space companies expect Brevard push, Space Florida “Three companies competing to fly NASA astronauts to the International Space Station expect to increase their local activity in the second half of this year, executives said Tuesday. The Boeing Co. soon will start moving into a former shuttle hangar at Kennedy Space Center, where it will assemble a test article of its CST-100 capsule. SpaceX hopes to launch a pad abort […]

As military-launch costs soar, would-be competitors protest, Orlando Sentinel “NASA workers looking for a job after space shuttle Atlantis’ final flight likely won’t have much luck at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which has launched a generation of military and national-intelligence satellites. The military-rocket business isn’t doing too well — at least according to United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Boeing and Lockheed Martin that manufactures the bulk of […]