Space planes could become a reality if one company achieves its goal. Radian Aerospace has plans to test its Radian One space plane over the next few years. Radian's model differs from multi-stage ...

Dawn Aerospace’s rocket-powered aircraft soared to new heights in its latest test campaign, as the company looks to build what could be the highest-performance aircraft to take off from a runway. The ...

The way history unfolded means we humans have specific ideas of how certain things are supposed to work. Cars should have four wheels, motorcycles two, and the best way to shoot a spacecraft off the ...

In the 1990s, NASA designed an experimental space plane meant to be a cost-effective alternative to expensive rockets. Called the X-33, it was based on a concept called SSTO — or “single stage to ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the X-37B Space Force space plane back into orbit late on Thursday, August 21-- marking the mysterious uncrewed vehicle's eighth mission. The mission, known as USSF-36 ...

As if the image of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket launch wasn’t burned into our collective retinas already, fans of the sexualized spaceship can now own their very own scaled-down model — for a ...

Believe it or not, modern jet fighters are overall slower than the airplanes from the 60s and 70s that they're designed to replace. Much of this has to do with changes in military doctrine over time.

(CNN) -- A model of a reusable rocket-powered plane was carried several miles above Earth on its maiden flight Tuesday, hooked under a carrier aircraft that took off from NASA's Dryden Flight Research ...

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