Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first privately developed spacecraft to carry a pilot to suborbital space, SpaceShipOne made three successful spaceflights in ...

SpaceShipOne didn’t need NASA to get to space. Emily A. Margolis When re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, SpaceShipOne employed a feathering system that raised to 65 degrees the rear half of the wings ...

On Sunday, June 20th, a day before the launch of SpaceShipOne from the Civilian Flight Test Center in Mojave, Calif., the onlookers began rolling into the parking lot—a convoy of cars and RVs, ...

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors that contributed to their success. Although they served very different ...

Andrew D. MagerNews Assistant The dream of becoming an astronaut become a reality when Brian Binnie, former Navy pilot, flew more than 70 miles above the Earth?s surface in SpaceShipOne, the world?s ...

Today, a significant milestone was achieved by Scaled Composites: The first manned supersonic flight by an aircraft developed by a small company’s private, non-government effort. In 1947, fifty-six ...