Sky is the limit, says Nasa&#39;s &#39;scramjet&#39; team
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Los Angeles - In March, Nasa launched an experimental jet that reached a record-setting speed of about 8 050km/h. Now researchers want to leave that milestone in the dust.
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Image: Technicians in front of NASA&#39;s third X-43A scramjet go over a pre-flight checklist on Nov. 15, 2004. NASA photo by Tom Tschida.
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The team has turned down offers, including from the US government, to do scientific experiments on flights. Rutan says SpaceShipOne&#39;s task will be to focus on test flights for the commercial passenger craft
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LOS ANGELES - Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism faces a myriad of safety concerns - in the sky and on the ground - that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off...
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NASA on Monday will attempt to set an air speed record when it launches its pilot-less X-43A &quot;scramjet.&quot;. Paul Allen was first.
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NASA&#39;s X-43A scramjet programme successfully smashed its own world speed record for aircraft by flying at nearly 10 times the speed of sound.
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In a series of landmark observations gathered over a period of four months, NASA's Swift satellite has challenged some of astronomers' fundamental ideas about gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are among the most extreme events in our universe.
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NASA Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe issued a statement regarding the damage left behind at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the wake of Hurricane Frances.
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Designer Burt Rutan&#39;s SpaceShipOne cracked through Earth&#39;s atmosphere and into outer space Sept. 29. Pilot Mike Mevill guided the aircraft to an altitude of 102,870 meters.
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In this photo released by NASA, the X-43A &quot;scramjet&quot; is seen attached to a modified Pegasus rocket under the wing of a B-52 aircraft before its release off the Southern California coast Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004.
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It has the technology to land men on the moon and send probes into the darkest reaches of space. But Nasa&#39;s newest project has more in common with school science lessons than Star Wars.
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For the best seats in the sky, NASA and SETI scientists are taking 10-hour flight at 47,000 feet to view the Quadrantid meteor shower.
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NASA (news - web sites) is making progress in its return to flight efforts, despite suffering setbacks from a recent rash of hurricanes that have pummeled the nation&#39;s space coast, according to the task force overseeing the agency&#39;s work.
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The public may yet learn what thousands of pilots told NASA about air safety. Congress moved Monday to analyze data from a project that the space agency cast aside and then withheld results in fear they could alarm the public and hurt airline profits.
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Space is the one frontier that&#39;s out of reach to the average person, but the feeling of space travel is now a little less elusive.
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An experienced team of pilots, engineers and scientists are relying on a reinforced skydiving parachute and a helicopter's hook to safely return the first samples from space since the Apollo era.
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The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe regarding the damage left behind at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the wake of Hurricane Frances.