Federal Aviation Administration
March 4, 2019
Astronauts or astro-nots? Perhaps within a matter of a months, a handful of customers will board a spacecraft and fly above Earth’s atmosphere to float for […]
February 11, 2019
WASHINGTON — The two pilots who flew SpaceShipTwo to the edge of space in December received commercial astronaut wings last week, joining an elite group that […]
January 11, 2019
The space agency confirmed the delay after Elon Musk tweeted that it was “about a month away.” ASA has confirmed that the first test flight of […]
January 15, 2017
Company aims to launch 27 rockets this year, more than triple last year’s number A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Saturday and […]
September 27, 2016
Elon Musk wants to send humans to the red planet. But even our robotic presence there risks contaminating Mars with invasive microbes. Twenty years ago, America […]
August 2, 2016
WASHINGTON — As Virgin Galactic prepares to resume testing of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane, the company announced Aug. 1 that it has received a launch license […]
March 22, 2016
Unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) have been a staple of sea exploration for years now, yet they’ve always had a limitation: They’ve needed constant support from a […]