29 September 08 : SpaceX's Falcon I in orbit

25 September 08 : Launch of Shenzhou 7 with a first Chinese EVA (see image)

June 2008 : Agreement on the first private mission to the ISS (Space Adventures)

June 2008 : Annoncement of the 2008 Lunar Lander Challenge (X-Prize)

April 2008 : John Carmack, CEO of Armadllo Aerospace, reviews Space Tourism companies (Armadillo)

April 2008 : Press Conference on Progress in Kiruna Spaceport, Sweden (Swedish Space Corporation)

21 February 2008 : The X-Prize Foundation and Google announce the ten participants to the Google Lunar Prize (X-Prize)

18 December 2007 : NASA gives the name of Altaïr to the lunar module designed under the Constallation programme (NASA) (see right column)

10 December 2007 : Virgin Galactic states 2008 is "the year of the spaceship" (flightglobal)

15 November 2007: First ever opportunity to apply as back-up crew member on Richard Garriott's orbital spaceflight (Space Adventures)

3 November 07 : Successful repair of P6 on the ISS (see image).

26 October 07 : Rocketplane Global presents its new design of sub-orbital plane.

10 October 2007: Successful launch of Discovery STS-120

October 07 : SpaceX completes NASA"Critical Design Review"

October 07: NASA terminates its contract with Rocketplane Kistler and launches a new competition for the available funds (NASA)

October 07: First flight for Virgin Galactic still 18 months from launch, says Branson (cbs5.com)

10 October 2007: Successful launch of Soyuz TMA-11 to ISS (Malaysian tourist Sheik Muszaphar Shukor) (see video)

September 2007: Because of the crash of its Texel module, Armadillo Aerospace will only take part in Level I of the Lunar Lander competition (Armadillo News)

September 07: Because of delays in providing module XA-0.2, Masten Space Systems will not take part in the Lunar Lander Challenge competition (Masten News)