Sierra Nevada is taking advantage of the 65th International Astronautical Congress to push its Dream Chaser lifting-body spaceplane to offshore customers, now that NASA has rejected its bid to fly crews to the International Space Station.

Frank Morring took these photos on the floor of this year's IAC in Toronto.

"We're monitoring the solar arrays, but the power seems to be fine." Mission Control Moscow informed Soyuz commander Alexander Samokytyaev, cosmonaut Elena Serova and NASA astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore.

International Space Station astronaut Alexander Gerst, of the European Space Agency, captures SpaceX Dragon capsule.

SpaceX Dragon expected to rendezvous with the International Space Station early Tuesday.

Poor weather remains a factor as SpaceX prepared for a second launch attempt early Sunday.

Fifty five years ago this week test pilot Scott Crossfield flew the North American Aviation X-15 rocket plane on its first powered flight.

Major developments in Commercial Crew and rocket engines are the subject of this week’s Check 6 podcast.