The North American X-15 was a revolutionary rocket-powered aircraft from the 1960s designed to explore hypersonic flight at ...

The company had planned to fly the vehicle close enough to the space station such that it could be captured and berthed to ...

This isn’t your average toy plane - it’s a turbine-powered rocket slicing through the air at jaw-dropping speeds.

Stratolaunch built and operates the world’s largest airplane by wingspan. It is the twin-fuselage Roc, which serves as an air ...

This is the first time anyone in the United States has flown a reusable hypersonic rocket plane since the last flight of the X-15, the iconic rocket-powered aircraft that pushed the envelope of ...

Radian’s solution is a rocket-powered sled that runs along a two-mile rail and accelerates up to Mach 0.7 — 537 mph (864 kilometers per hour) — before releasing the space plane, which then ...

The rocket-powered aircraft did this in 118.6 seconds, which is 4.2 seconds better than that achieved by a specially modified F-15 in the 1970s. In addition, the Mk-II Aurora made a second flight ...

The rocket-powered airplane will reach an altitude of between 25 and 30 kilometers (15 to 18 miles) -- three times higher than the cruising height of commercial airplanes."Without doubt, this is ...

MOJAVE, Calif. -- A fledgling aerospace company took another step toward making private space flights Monday as a rocket-powered plane soared 9,000 feet over the desert. Xcor Aerospace's EZ-Rocket ...

Dawn Aerospace has flown its rocket-powered aircraft past the speed of sound, the latest milestone on its path to its first commercial flights. During the test, which took place on New Zealand’s ...

The most notable was in 1963, when American Joseph Walker flew a rocket-powered X-15 to an altitude of 106km — and returned. All other vehicles to fly that high have been rockets or spaceplanes.

The most important thing on the agenda is getting the rocket-powered UAV to reach Mach 1.1 (844 mph/1,258 kph) and an altitude of 70,000 feet (21,336 meters).