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Some may already be familiar with the sonic boom that accompanies a break to the sound barrier, but when and why would ...
Stuck on Polish bus The worry on Tunji’s face was visible. His brow furrowed. The tiredness from the long-haul flight we all ...
A remarkable half-century in the skies, distinguished by an unblemished record of no accidents or FAA violations, has culminated in local pilot Timothy J. Dickerson receiving the esteemed Wright ...
Watch the astonishing true story of Flight 90, the plane that accidentally soared beyond Earth’s atmosphere and into space. What started as a routine flight turned into an unprecedented event ...
A SpaceX spacecraft has caused a sonic boom over California as it returned to Earth's atmosphere, and some on social media initially mistook the sound for an earthquake.
Sierra Space is getting ready to launch its reusable space plane, Dream Chaser, carrying a module to grow crystals for experimental drug research.
The small rocket, powered by the company's 2,000-pound-thrust engine, launched from a rail in New Mexico. The vehicle flew for about half a minute and, as planned, did not break the sound barrier.
Holding a daisy to the sky, songstress Katy Perry emerged from a Blue Origin space shuttle before falling to her knees and kissing the hot Texan ground below her.
Robotics These Tiny Liquid Robots Merge and Split Like ‘Terminator’ Made of teflon and water, the robots could one day shuttle drugs around the body.
Supersonic planes travel at speeds greater than the speed of sound: Concorde passengers used to joke that you could have a first breakfast in London, hop on the plane and land in time for a second ...
NASA’s Quesst Mission aims to develop a new supersonic jet that produces quiet sonic booms, allowing for faster-than-sound flight over land, potentially paving the way for commercial bans to … ...