The creator of SpaceShipOne says private space flight's about to take off. At the dawn of a new era, SpaceShipOne is minutes away from being released by its launch aircraft. White Knight ...

After separating from its mothership, SpaceShipOne would light its engine and travel on a short suborbital flight to space. While the SpaceShipOne won the XPrize, and SpaceShipTwo is currently ...

From the lunar landing to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, here are some bold space missions in history.

Yet, Fedotov only made it about 1/3 the way to space. Another plane, SpaceShipOne reached 367,500 feet in 2004. It had rocket engines and was flown to an initial 43,500 feet before launch.

Video showed the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built spinning out of control in space, a repeat of an unsuccessful test flight in January that led to debris falling over the Caribbean.