LOS ANGELES — Virgin Galactic rolled out a new version of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket Friday as it prepares to return to flight testing for the first time since a 2014 accident destroyed the ...
The SpaceShipTwo craft, a suborbital, rocket-fueled space plane called the VSS Unity, lifted off shortly after 8 a.m. local time. It was carried aloft under a larger carrier plane for nearly an hour ...
Watch the Dawn Aerospace's Mk-II Aurora Spaceplane light up it rocket engine test flight. Credit: Dawn Aerospace ...
In the early space race, the X-15 stood as a radical leap in aerospace engineering—an aircraft that broke speed, altitude, and thermal barriers. Capable of Mach 6.7 and flying to the edge of space, ...
Using debris modeling and simulations, the U.S. Space Force, the branch of the military that deals with the nation’s space ...
Rare appearance of the military's "Doomsday Plane" sparks online worry ...