What we know for sure The X-37 program sits in a rare sweet spot: officially real, visually documented, and yet operatio ...

Here’s What You Need To Know: “Up until the autonomous landing of the X-40A in 1998, no one had demonstrated that an unmanned space vehicle with such a low lift-to-drag ratio, and a high ...

Joe Engle, the first astronaut to fly in space aboard two different winged vehicles, has died at the age of 91. Engle's death on Wednesday (July 10) was announced in a note from his family shared ...

For nearly two years, a classified space plane has orbited the Earth. Soon, it’s coming down. The X-37B, called the Orbital Test Vehicle, is one of two space planes operated by the U.S. Air Force ...

Over his distinguished career, Engle flew over 185 different aircraft, including NASA space shuttles HUM Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Joe Engle, who had the distinction of being the only ...

The X-38—had it gone operational—would not have been the first reusable spacecraft. But it helped lay the groundwork for future space programs’ emphasis on reusability. The NASA X-38 was an ...

The X PRIZE Foundation selected Colonel Rick Searfoss as the Chief Judge of the X PRIZE Competition adding to the recent flurry of activity in the race for a three person private sector reusable ...

A Purdue University aerospace researcher helped shape plans to install a new experiment currently on the space shuttle Discovery to collect data for controlling deadly friction and heating in the ...

TRI-CITIES, Tenn. & Va. (WJHL) – On Friday morning, SpaceX launched a recycled rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, sending 4 astronauts into orbit. You can watch News Channel 11’s live coverage of ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX pushed one day for weather and has delayed again the next Falcon Heavy launch of a secretive spacecraft that’s a fourth the size of the space shuttle. “Standing down from ...