Aerospace giants hope to build next craft
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Boeing NASA Systems of Houston will team with another aerospace giant to bid on building the successor to the space shuttle, a spacecraft that would take explorers to the moon and Mars, officials from the two companies announced Tuesday.
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The cost of developing Airbus's new A380 super-jumbo will be much higher than planned, but the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company still hopes to meet or exceed its earnings forecasts this year, EADS ...
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French President Jacques Chirac's trip this week to Beijing will bring into sharp focus the battle between the world's biggest aircraft makers, Europe's Airbus and Boeing of the United States, for the prized ...
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A new generation of superjets comes to life.
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Lockheed Martin prepares a successor to the Concorde -- a supersonic private jet that will fly at almost twice the speed of sound. By Robert Andrews.
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A Canadian team vying for the $10 million X Prize is scrounging for parts, while the heavy favorite, Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne, is ready for a launch next week. By Dan Brekke.
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Scientists gather to discuss their preferred targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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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 industry 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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LONDON Airbus predicted Wednesday that an average of 830 new passenger aircraft would be built each year for the next two decades, and that the new Airbus jumbo A380 will be so successful that Boeing will be forced to develop a competitor.
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The company&#39;s CEO says an aircraft to compete with the 7E7 Dreamliner could be offered by the end of the year. Airbus SAS plans to challenge Boeing Co.
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When Boeing Co.'s new 787 Dreamliner jet takes to the skies sometime this winter, it will represent an envelope-pushing engineering triumph for everything from fuel efficiency to advanced composite materials.
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NASA's next moon rocket is still on the drawing
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Getting a closer look at the stars may soon stop being the privilege of a few select billionaires, with the space arm of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company saying Wednesday it plans to have a space tourist plane in operation by 2012.
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Boeing and Northrop Grumman have inked a memorandum of agreement which will see the two aerospace giants join forces to compete for the contract to build NASA&#39;s Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) - part of the Agency&#39;s Constellation project to send robotic
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The board of EADS, the parent company of Airbus, the aerospace giant, will tomorrow give the green light to develop its new aircraft, the A350.
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Engineers at NASA, Boeing, are working to realize the longtime dream of a flying car--but admit we're still decades from a Jetson-like world.
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Boeing's huge Delta 4-Heavy rocket, set for lift-off on Saturday, may play a role in life after the space shuttle.