Sub-orbital Spacecraft
Vehicles, such as SpaceShipOne, that do not reach orbit during spaceflight- Explore more »
About Those Space Joyrides…
The first suborbital tourists will spend up to $200,000 for a few precious minutes of weightlessness. How many minutes will they get?
January 06, 2012 |
By David Warmflash
Loser X-Planes
Every research aircraft poses a question. Sometimes the answer is "forget it."
August 2011 |
By The Editors
The Magician of Mojave
Burt Rutan remembers the birth of the VariEze and names his favorite aircraft.
August 2009 |
By Linda Shiner
It All Started with Sputnik
An eminent space historian looks back on the first 50 years of space exploration.
July 2007 |
By Roger D. Launius
Fields of Dreams
Will starry-eyed entrepreneurs transform today's wide-open spaces into tomorrow's spaceports?
May 2007 |
By Ed Regis
Can We Stop a Nuke?
From the impossible dream of a space-based shield, missile defense has come down to Earth. But will it work?
May 2007 |
By Ben Iannotta
The First Photo From Space
In 1946, rocket-borne cameras gave us our first look at Earth from beyond the atmosphere.
November 2006 |
By Tony Reichhardt
Home on the Plains
Gus Grissom's Mercury capsule settles down in Kansas.
September 2006 |
By Paul Hoversten
Go Ballistic
You can leave and reenter the atmosphere, feel the kick of a rocket, and see the curvature of Earth. Step right up and lay down your 200 grand.
March 2006 |
By Craig Mellow
In the Museum: Sweet Success
SpaceShipOne takes its place in the Milestones of Flight gallery.
March 2006 |
By Diane Tedeschi
The Rest of the Rocket Scientists
Some went west. This is the story of the ones who went east.
September 2003 |
By Anatoly Zak
Infrared Countermeasures
The systems that cool the threat from heat-seeking missiles.
July 2003 |
By Sam Goldberg
What's a Scud?
The Scud missiles causing so much anxiety in the world today are Soviet designs that originated in a weapon developed by the Nazis.
May 2003 |
By Bruce Berkowitz
