Retropolis Smithsonian’s legendary rocket plane heads for storage during renovations The X-15, once the world’s fastest, highest-flying piloted aircraft, has hung from the rafters of the Air ...

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Buried in the sweeping legislation is an $85 million provision to move NASA's most-flown spacecraft from the national ...

An engine used to launch an Israeli company's attempt at landing on the moon has landed in the Smithsonian. Along with a grid fin, it is one of the first SpaceX artifacts to join the collection.

Virgin Galactic wants you to get up close with SpaceShipTwo rocket motor It was donated to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Virgin Galactic has donated the hybrid rocket motor that powered its VSS Unity spaceplane into a new world record, the company has announced. The motor was donated last week following the historic ...

Fritz von Opel celebrates a run in his RAK-2 rocket car in Berlin on May 23, 1928. He had the original black-and-white image colorized. This may sound familiar: One of the world’s richest men ...

The current record for fastest street-legal car is 277.9 mph, set by the Koenigsegg Agera RS. Rocket cars accelerating over salt flats and dry lake beds can get going a good bit faster.

The motor that powered Virgin Galactic's VSS unity into space has been donated to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. In a formal ceremony on Thursday, the hybrid ...

The hybrid rocket motor that powered Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo on its first flight into space will next be used to ignite public interest as an artifact in the Smithsonian National Air and ...

“SpaceShipTwo’s rocket motor is an exciting addition to the national collection of milestone spaceflight artifacts,” said Ellen Stofan, John and Adrienne Mars Director of the museum. “It is a unique ...

The rocket motor is the one which was used on the VSS Unity on December 13, when Richard Branson’s spaceship reached the edge of space for the first time.