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New operating system for space: High-tech tycoons

By DONNA BLANKINSHIP and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press Writers SEATTLE (AP) -- The tycoons of cyberspace are looking to bankroll America's resurgence in outer space, reviving "Star Trek" dreams that first interested them in science. Microsoft co-founde

Commercial spacecraft on way to space station

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- A ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after a spectacular, middle-of-the-night blastoff.

Gingrich moon base dreams not lunacy, experts say

By SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wants to create a lunar colony that he says could become a US state. There's his grand research plan to figure out what makes the human brain tick. And