Launching NASA astronauts to the International Space Station aboard commercial spaceships may have its risks, but the payoffs from lower-cost flights to the orbiting outpost, and expanded scientific ...
The Virgin WhiteKnightTwo mothership, carrying SpaceShipTwo, performs a flyover in October 2010 during an event commemorating the completion of the Virgin Galactic Spaceport America runway in New ...
Robert Ferl of the University of Florida actuates a KSC Fixation Tube preloaded with plant seedlings and preservative for a gene-expression experiment during an F-104 Starfighters flight. Credit: ...