NASA’s long-promised space plane is finally on the cusp of leaving the runway behind and heading for orbit, a decade after ...

The North American X-15 was built to flirt with the edge of space, not to cross it by accident. Yet on a research mission ...

American space agency NASA and aircraft maker Boeing have been researching longer and thinner wing designs, they are now ...

The Dream Chaser is the result of a combined effort by NASA and the private company Sierra Space. The private plane is intended to be reusable, allowing for multiple flights to and from Earth and the ...

Florida's Space Coast has become known for its rocket launches, which has notably increased in the past few years. Aside from the "ooh, ahh" factor of a launch virtually morning, noon or night − with ...

It's not set in stone yet, but the date when NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft will finally take off is fast approaching. The space agency already informed us on the most important ...

The Space Coast is in for two rare launches this coming week − the mysterious Space Force space plane and a space station resupply mission for NASA. Of course, this is if the weather doesn't ruin the ...

The International Space Station (ISS) may never again be visited by a space plane. NASA's space shuttle orbiters were instrumental in building the ISS, and in keeping it operational for its first ...

For decades, flying faster than the speed of sound has meant speeding across the skies in an aircraft that creates a powerful sonic boom -- a huge noise that travels down to the ground below like a ...

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