Yesterday, NASA held a press conference to communicate the latest updates on the status of its Commercial Crew Program (CCP), the program of funding for certain business partners who are working to build spacecraft capable of carrying people into space.

On December 6, 2012, Golden Spike has announced its plan to send astronauts to the Moon. The ultimate goal is to have regular flights over the next decade that also bring tourists on holiday on the Moon. The ticket, however, at least initially will cost $750 million per person.

Yesterday the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis was brought to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, where it will be exhibited permanently, according to schedule from July 2013, in a facility built for that purpose.

SpaceX has just announced that the Dragon spacecraft safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. That marks the end of the CRS-1 mission, the first of twelve official resupply missions to the International Space Station for NASA.