The National Aero-Space Plane was sold to the public as a kind of orbital bullet train, a sleek “Orient Express” that could sprint from Washington to Tokyo in a couple of hours and then keep going all ...

Dawn Aerospace seems to want to play with the big kids as it announces that it will be selling its spaceplane directly to customers the same way that airliner manufacturers market their aircraft, ...

Not only is it a spaceplane like the NASA Space Shuttle that lifts off atop a conventional rocket booster and lands back on Earth using a conventional runway, it's also derived from NASA's HL-20 ...

The European Space Agency is throwing its weight behind a design effort for a hypersonic spaceplane, with hopes of getting the final idea airborne (and spaceborne) by 2031. The ESA is putting up ...

The secretive exploits of the X-37B spaceplane continue. After spending 434 days in space, the crewless Space Force craft returned to Earth on March 7, landing at California's Vandenberg Space Force ...

A not-so-secret, secret reusable spaceplane operated by the United States Space Force is scheduled to lift off for its eighth mission on Thursday, Aug. 21, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The U.S. Space Force (and the Air Force before it) have been flying the Boeing X-37B spaceplane drone since 2010, demonstrating how advanced vehicles like this could maneuver on orbit and testing out ...

When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering ...

New Zealand-based Dawn Aerospace is now accepting preorders for its Aurora spaceplane, a sub-orbital, reusable craft which can carry 22lb payloads to altitudes up to just over 60 miles. That's not a ...

LOUISVILLE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense tech prime that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth ®, announced today it has ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...