Let loose from its White Knight mothership, the rocket engine propelling the experimental suborbital SpaceShipOne vehicle ...

Arguably the most innovative aircraft of the 21st century, so far, is SpaceShipOne (shown here attached to its carrier plane, White Knight). Designed by perhaps the most creative aircraft designer ...

The creator of SpaceShipOne says private space flight's about to take off. At the dawn of a new era, SpaceShipOne is minutes away from being released by its launch aircraft. White Knight ...

Allen, with a deep pocket book, and Rutan, with the know-how of how to build such a craft, joined up to create SpaceShipOne, as of right now the only privately-built spacecraft. The success of ...

and SpaceShipOne, the first crewed private space plane that claimed the Ansari X Prize in 2004. Between the three upcoming sales, more than 50 of the lots offer art, memorabilia and artifacts ...

Aged 69, the chemical engineer has already spent more than a year in space. And he’s far from the oldest person to fly beyond ...

The X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, built by North American Aviation (NAA), greatly expanded our knowledge of flight ...

Here's a look at the pros and cons of space tourism. Related: How SpaceShipOne's historic launch 20 years ago paved the way for a new space tourism era A handful of private individuals ...

Cast your mind back, [Lance Armstrong] was winning the Tour de France, and SpaceShipOne made it into space. [Gregg Eshelman], wrote to us to say that in 2004 he bought an MP3 player. Ask your ...

Three seats on the Mojave Air & Space Port Board of Directors will be on the Nov. 5 ballot. There are seven candidates ...

Why aren’t there talks with the Taliban about getting women and girls back into education? World leaders are restarting their engagement with the Taliban — yet the rights of half of the ...