Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first privately developed spacecraft to carry a pilot to suborbital space, SpaceShipOne made three successful spaceflights in ...

Thousands of obervers at the Mojave Spaceport and millions watching via webcast and TV were able to follow today’s dramatic flight to space of the SpaceShipOne suborbital vehicle via Ecliptic’s ...

SpaceShipOne has completed its historic flight and has safely landed. SpaceShipOne reached its projected altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers) even though its engine cut off early. This is the first ...

SpaceShipOne didn’t need NASA to get to space. Emily A. Margolis When re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, SpaceShipOne employed a feathering system that raised to 65 degrees the rear half of the wings ...

POWERED FLIGHT: Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne flew its second powered flight on April 8, reaching a speed of Mach 2 and a maximum altitude of 100,000 feet, according to a statement released by the ...

MOJAVE, Calif.--As the sun cracked the ragged horizon of the Mojave Desert on Wednesday, the White Knight aircraft taxied onto the runway looking like a gigantic model glider with an oversize torpedo ...

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors that contributed to their success. Although they served very different ...

The space ship was launched at 47,000 feet and 105 knots, 10 nm east of Mojave. Separation was clean and positive with no tendency to roll off or pitch bobble. An initial handling qualities evaluation ...

The story of SpaceShipOne could only happen in America — the designing, building and flying of a privately funded rocket-powered plane into the deadly environment of space without a cent of government ...

MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) -- A rocket plane soared above Earth's atmosphere Monday in the first privately financed manned spaceflight, then glided back to Earth for an unpowered landing. SpaceShipOne pilot ...