Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a resident on board the International Space Station, Anne McClain had quite a view. But, interestingly, something she saw while ...

The North American X-15 did more than set records; it quietly redrew the map of what a piloted aircraft could survive at the edge of space. By pushing hypersonic flight to extremes that still stand ...

The fastest air-breathing vehicle ever built was the NASA X-43. Only three of these aircraft were built, with one being destroyed and two operating successfully. The X-43 testbed aircraft measured 12 ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the X-37B space plane for its eighth mission (USSF-36) from Kennedy Space Center. The X-37B will conduct undisclosed experiments, including testing a new sensor for ...

The competition for airspace is just beginning as the space age kicks into high gear on the Space Coast. At the center of it all is SpaceX, which seeks to bring its game-changing Starship to Florida ...

Aircraft in the X program conduct basic research in the air. The Bell X-1, which first reached supersonic speed, marked the ...

The booster stage for Firefly Aerospace’s next Alpha rocket was destroyed Monday in a fiery accident on the company’s vertical test stand in Central Texas. Engineers were testing the rocket before ...

SpaceX launches a Boeing-made X-37B space plane on a U.S. Space Force mission with its return date undisclosed. Photo: Jennifer Briggs/Zuma Press A Pentagon spaceplane called X-37B zoomed into orbit ...

"The X-15, which flew from 1959-1970, is still the most advanced research aircraft ever developed and flown, and hangs in a place of honor in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. Its test pilots ...

Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi and Kirill Peskov made up NASA, SpaceX Crew-10. Anne McClain's Sept. 28, 2025, flight from LAX airport coincided with a SpaceX rocket launch from Vandenberg ...