For fans, the name Serenity conjures up images of a versatile little transport ship with double thrusters — a safe haven and ideal home for Firefly’s rag-tag group of space wanderers.

The Cedar Park company announced this week that it got an $8.2 million grant from the state to expand its spacecraft ...

Firefly was selected based on the payload capacity. “What NASA is doing is they’re contracting for the manifest capacity in the space, as opposed to the lander specifically,” Scholtes told FLORIDA ...