Sega Jet Rocket was the world's first flight simulator game, first first-person shooter game, and first "open world" game. Rusty Key/The Game Preserve. View 6 Images 1 / 6.

The trio called themselves the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ... It reached an altitude of 192 miles before falling back to Earth, making it the first private company to put a rocket into space.

The rocket-equipped plane followed a predetermined flight path on autopilot, powered by its four kerosene jet turbines, before successfully igniting its AS-1 LOX (liquid oxygen)/kerosene linear ...

In turn, six-to-nine Me 163s were shot down by Allied fighter pilots, who found – as with the Me 262 jet fighter – that the fearsome rocket plane was at its most vulnerable whilst descending ...

Virgin Galactic's passenger rocket plane VSS Unity, borne by twin-fuselage carrier jet dubbed VMS Eve, takes off with billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his crew for travel to the edge ...

In 1942, the Bell P-59, the United States’ first jet engine fighter aircraft, ... he would have been the first person to break the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 rocket plane, ...