The Rocket Racing League is set for the first demo flight of its new Rocket Racer.
WhiteKnightTwo, the mega-carrier plane that will haul Virgin Galactic's suborbital spaceliner SpaceShipTwo to launch altitude, is expected to make its first flight before year's end.
... 70 million years before birds first conquered the skies, pterosaurs dominated the air ... shed light on how the animals powered sustained flight.
"The shape and size of the rib segments that articulate ...
... , built by Northrop Grumman Corporation, has completed its first series of cryogenic temperature tests in the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
... 99.7 percent of the Earth's atmosphere. The dramatic journey from its first flight in the Arctic to the second flight in Antarctica was the subject of a feature-length documentary film, "BLAST!" ( ...
In preparation for its October 27th test flight, the Ares I
rocket has successfully made its way to the launch site at ... on launch pad 39B, the
Ares I represents the first step towards NASA's new, post- ...
... ' defeat rate--their total chances of being shot down after each flight. That rate started off high--25 percent for the first flight--but fell sharply; by the 10th flight it had ...
... The package will be built by CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics for the first flight of the National Polar Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, or NPOESS. The ...
The first flights have been conducted of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to monitor UK farmland.
... of Bristol in the United Kingdom.
"The first flight was a success and made the first in situ measurements of gases in ... meters around Mauna Loa mountain. The flight lasted for just under two hours ...
... . This was sufficient detail to allow accurate counting the number of people in an area."
After the first flight, the researchers reduced the weight of the device and developed a more accurate geo- ...
Continental Airlines is the latest to to test-fly a jet biofuel, this time with a product derived partially from algae.
HAMPTON, Va., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it's moving closer to the first flight test of the rocket that will send humans to the moon again.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- NASA says it has set Oct. 27 as the date for the first flight test of the Ares I-X rocket, pending successful testing and data verification.
... time.
Jerrie Cobb
Jerrie Cobb was the first female to volunteer for the program. Having taken up flying ... came to watch Eileen Collins pilot the first flight of the joint Russian-American Space ...
