It was a one-of-a-kind moment for a throng of well-wishers, including this reporter, all in nose-up, sky-squinting position at California's Mojave Airport on June 21, 2004. Let loose from its White ...

Organizers of the Ansari X Prize announced Friday that SpaceShipOne will launch as planned on Oct. 4 to seal its victory for the competition's $10 million award. The second voyage of Paul Allen's ...

Paul G. Allen and Burt Rutan Announce Plans for First Non-Government, Privately Funded Manned Space Flight Mojave, CA: A privately-developed rocket plane will launch into history on June 21 on a ...

White Knight and SpaceShipOne seen rising against the "boneyard" of stored planes at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Twenty years ago Friday, an unlikely group of aircraft designers and renegade ...

Scaled Composites has filed an application with the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, known as AST, to obtain a launch license for the first suborbital space flight of SpaceShipOne.

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors that contributed to their success. Although they served very different ...

Burt Rutan’s Mojave Aerospace Ventures Team successfully reached an altitude of 337,500 feet with Mike Melvill (the pilot) onboard plus ballast (approx. 180 Kg). This flight was deemed by the Judges ...

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity and its mothership (left) are modeled after the SpaceShipOne launch system (right) that was built with Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’s backing. (Photos by Virgin Galactic ...

The Federal Aviation Administration’s associate administrator for commercial space transportation has given license approval to Scaled Composites of Mojave, Calif., permitting the firm to expand ...

The man chosen to become the first private-sector space pilot says he is "ready to go" on a mission that organizers hope will begin a new era in manned spaceflight. Thousands of spectators converged ...

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MOJAVE, CALIF. - SpaceShipOne will launch early Monday in a historic attempt to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize, the experimental spacecraft's team announced Thursday. The flight, slated for 8 a.m.