Key Points and Summary - The X-15 was a rocket-powered research aircraft that pushed human flight to the edge of space and deep into the hypersonic regime. -Air-launched from a B-52, three X-15s flew ...

Watch the Dawn Aerospace's Mk-II Aurora Spaceplane light up it rocket engine test flight. Credit: Dawn Aerospace ...

An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance utilizing the technology of the 1950s and 60s. The North American X-15 was ...

I have to admit, the world of aviation is much more creative when it comes to dreaming its future than those of land or naval transport. As a sort of a consequence of that, it is also far less ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a resident on board the International Space Station, Anne McClain had quite a view. But, interestingly, something she saw while ...

Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi and Kirill Peskov made up NASA, SpaceX Crew-10. Anne McClain's Sept. 28, 2025, flight from LAX airport coincided with a SpaceX rocket launch from Vandenberg ...