The Hillson FH.40 Hurricane, a slip-wing fighter aircraft, transformed during flight by jettisoning its upper wing and ...

On June 21, 2004, the first privately funded human spaceflight, launched on SpaceShipOne. The ship flew 62.5 miles above Earth's surface -- just a few miles above the boundary of space -- for about 3 ...

Spark of innovation "The prizewinning second flight of SpaceShipOne on its X Prize quest in 2004 seemed, at the time, to herald an imminent new era for commercial spaceflight," said Margaret Weitekamp ...

The private space race launched 20 years ago with a simple and elegant piece of aerospace engineering. Here's to Virgin Galactic and Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne!

Its president Peter Diamandis hailed the Mojave Aerospace Ventures team behind SpaceShipOne. "We are proud to announce that SpaceShipOne has made two flights to 100km and has won the Ansari X Prize," ...

Blue Origin pinned custom astronaut wings to his flight suit. The Federal Aviation Administration may disagree. Or it may not even matter. By Kenneth Chang Say you’re Jeff Bezos. You’re the ...

SpaceShipOne claimed the Ansari X Prize in 2004 and currently hangs in the “Milestones of Flight” gallery at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. SpaceShipTwo: triumph and tragedy ...

Here’s how it works. SpaceShipOne, with Brian Binnie at the controls, flew the second suborbital flight in one week’s time in 2004 to capture the $10 million Ansari X Prize flight purse.

Even SpaceShipOne’s prize-winning flight, which didn’t climb nearly so high, cleared the Kármán line relatively easily, at 69.6 miles.

A test flight more than a decade in the making is scheduled to take place Dec. 13 as Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo makes its highest flight to date.