Announced at the Paris Air Show, ESA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding – an MoU – with Blue Origin and European aerospace giant Thales Alenia Space.

The Air Force also got in on the action, with a 1960 paper from the Ballistic Missile Division’s Directorate of Space Planning and Analysis titled “Military Lunar Base Program or S.R. 183 ...

The United States Space Force shared a never-before-seen glimpse into its notably secretive X-37B space plane in orbit. The photo showed the space plane and Earth.

In 2006, the Air Force announced the development of its own variant of the space plane, known as the X-37B, designed to operate with an orbital speed of nearly 17,500 mph for up to 270 days.