The North American X-15 was built to flirt with the edge of space, not to cross it by accident. Yet on a research mission ...

Raytheon was awarded a contract from the Air Force to put its air-cooled, compact PhantomStrike fire control radar into the X ...

The problem with keeping orbital objects secret is that they’re visible to literally everyone on the planet under the orbital path who thinks to look for them, but otherwise the Department of Defense ...

Rare Smithsonian artifacts are on display at museums across the country. Mark Strauss This SR-10F Reliant, one of only 18 of this model, participated in airmail pick-up experiments for All American ...

Officially designated the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), the X-37 program began in 1999 under NASA as a testbed for reusable spacecraft technologies, ie., advanced thermal protection, autonomous reentry, ...

WASHINGTON — Japan launched the first of a new generation of cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, with potential applications beyond low Earth orbit. An H3 rocket lifted off from the ...

The Space Development Agency's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture will include data transport and missile warning and tracking satellites. (Northrop Grumman) In a series of trials this summer, ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman recently expressed skepticism that the Discovery shuttle would be moved to Texas, seeming to suggest that the Johnson Space Center would receive a different vehicle ...

This video is no longer available. When you go into the large museum hangar at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, you will be blown away by how many planes ...

Revised edition of 1976 publication by Lynne C. Murphy. A catalog providing a brief historical essay on the various rockets, missiles and spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum. Historical ...