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Ronald Reagan's 1984 speech predicted a future for private space travel, recognizing that the state was too slow to overcome the challenges of space exploration. He promised to remove obstacles to private-sector space activities and signed the Commercial Space Launch Act in October of that year, enabling private enterprises to commercialize space and space technology. In recent decades, the space industry has seen a shift towards more private companies dominating space travel, with thousands of private companies in the global space sector. The future of the space economy lies in the free enterprise system, and private companies are likely to be the first to send people to Mars. [Extracted from the article]

Some Bay Area residents were startled Saturday evening to see a mysterious row of bright lights gliding across the sky. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After 185 days in space, Bay Area astronaut Kate Rubins will hurtle back to Earth on a Russian spacecraft Friday having traveled more than 78 million miles and circled the globe nearly 3,000 times since she launched into space last year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sitting atop a million-pound rocket filled with the 91,000 gallons of fuel needed to reach the International Space Station later this year, Petaluma native Nicole Aunapu Mann will be relying on the thousands of hours she spent in a flight simulator, preparing for every conceivable error. Her next destination could be the moon. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]