The North American X-15 is one of the most groundbreaking aircraft ever created in the history of aviation and space ...

Notably, it highlights the unique design features of the X15, including its Inconel X steel skin to withstand extreme temperatures and a powerful rocket engine. Pilots like Joe Engel contributed ...

While on a flight back from spring break Thursday night, a Wisconsin college student captured a close-up view of falling debris from a failed SpaceX Starship rocket launch. University of Wisconsin ...

How about the X-15 — the world’s first hypersonic rocket plane. The program was a masterclass in rapid, real-world learning. In one particularly dramatic episode in 1959, an X-15 landed so ...

The first six X-37B missions launched on smaller rockets, limiting their range to low-Earth orbit. For the seventh mission, the Space Force selected SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, which had the ...

Musk, meanwhile, took to X, the social-media platform he owns ... because of the explosion of SpaceX’s Starship—the rocket that Musk wants to use to take people to Mars—on its latest ...

The United States Space Force’s secretive X-37B space ... The space plane was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida by SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Rocket in 2023 in what was its ...

The U.S. Space Force's robotic space plane ... X-37B in the air that was under scrutiny during this mission. This was the first time that the space plane had launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy ...

By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Mar 8, 2025 The United States Space Force’s uncrewed, secretive space plane ... X-37B was unique for several reasons. This mission utilized a SpaceX Falcon Heavy ...

Languages: English. A video shot from a plane that appears to show the moment Elon Musk's Starship rocket exploded is going viral on X. Starship 8, which launched over the Caribbean on Thursday ...