Designing a rocket ride into suborbit
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Industrial designer takes inspiration from comics, movies while working on the interior of Virgin Galactic spacecraft and the suits tourists will wear on suborbital flights.
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NASA is working to solve a potentially dangerous vibration problem in its next generation of launching vehicles.
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Test pilot makes successful foray into space on rocket ship. But there was some drama... THE spectators on the ground gasped as the rocket ship rolled at least 16 times in about 16 seconds.
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Ready for takeoff More modern, more art
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Anyone who    wants to follow in the shoes of Burt Rutan and win the next big space prize    will have to build a spacecraft capable of taking a crew of no fewer than five    people to an altitude of 400 kilometers and complete two orbits of the Earth    at that altitude. Then they have to repeat that accomplishment within 60 days.
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Design and performance issues hold back this very cool idea.
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UPHAM, N.M., Sept. 25 -- The first rocket launched from New Mexico's spaceport failed to reach suborbital space Monday, wobbling and dropping back to Earth barely a tenth of the way into its intended journey.
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Astronauts driven up the wall NASA boffins have developed a curious new method of simulating the effects of exercise on astronauts in weightless conditions. They plan to conduct Earth-based trials on human test subjects suspended horizontally in mid-air while running on a vertical treadmill.â¦
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Designs for an ambitious particle-smasher are finalized. U.S. researchers hope the International Linear Collider could boost the U.S.'s flagging scientific fortunes. By John Borland.
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Time was you could get to the moon in a few days, and you can still do it if you have a really big rocket. But SMART-1, a washing machine-size spacecraft carrying an experimental engine, has taken the long way around.
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The creators of a private rocket plane will go ahead with plans for another launch next week in a quest to claim a multimillion-dollar prize, despite a harrowing flight in which the spacecraft rolled dramatically while hurtling toward
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America&#39;s new heavy-lifting rocket takes its much-anticipated test flight Saturday, if Mother Nature cooperates. The Boeing Delta 4-Heavy rocket was supposed to launch today, but the forecast for strong winds
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Traveling in space has been a desire for many since ages. Nevertheless, it only seems to be coming true in this millennium. Even though we are still years away from mass scale space tourism, the enthusiasm
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Innovation comes from below. To find the weirdest new forms of play, look to independent designers. Commentary by Clive Thompson.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - A three-seat rocket plane with  stubby wings and a nose studded with round windows will try to  blast out of Earth's atmosphere above the Mojave desert on  Wednesday to qualify for a $10-million prize designed to spur  commercial space travel.
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There's only one thing better than riding a halfpipe ramp in "Tony Hawk's Underground 2" - doing it in real life. Since I'm pretty sure that's never going to happen, I'll keep on defying gravity in this new game from Activision.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  ATK Launch Systems Group, a Utah company building the solid rocket boosters for the space shuttle, has joined with two other aerospace giants to propose a design for the upper stage of the shuttle's replacement rocket.