NASA’s long-promised space plane is finally on the cusp of leaving the runway behind and heading for orbit, a decade after the agency first backed the concept. The lifting-body vehicle known as Dream ...

On September 7th 2017, the U.S. Air Force was set to launch the X-37B on a Falcon 9, and while the launch was public, the mission was kept classified. We traced the craft’s lineage from early space ...

This story was updated at 9:49 a.m. EDT. The new spaceship being built by private aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corp. may look like a miniature space shuttle, but while the design takes cues from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida's Space Coast has become known for its rocket launches, which has notably increased in the past few years. Aside from the ...

The U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane is set to launch its eighth mission from Kennedy Space Center. The mission, designated USSF-36, will focus on testing laser communications and a new navigation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sierra Nevada Corp’s Dream Chaser space plane is lifted by helicopter from a ramp at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in ...

The X-37B space plane, launched by SpaceX, is scheduled to lift off from Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9 rocket booster will land at Cape Canaveral, causing a sonic boom. This mission, ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The United States Space ...