The National Air and Space Museum gets closer to fully completing the most extensive renovation since its founding.

SpaceShipOne took off underneath the belly ... streaked skyward at about three times the speed of sound on a half-hour flight before test pilot Brian Binnie glided the ship safely back to Earth.

Adding to its sci-fi mystique, SpaceShipOne used a “feather system” with its rear wings. Basically, this means that in order to safely reenter the atmosphere after its brief flights (and not ...

The SpaceShipOne technology was parlayed into ... Tragedy struck the company in 2014 when a copilot was killed during a test flight. At the time, tests were still being carried out by Scaled ...

Today brought the fifth flight test for Stratolaunch’s 385 ... of air-launch technology pioneered during the award-winning SpaceShipOne campaign that Allen bankrolled nearly two decades ago.

Sturckow, the two pilots of Virgin Galactic’s larger successor of SpaceShipOne, aptly named SpaceShipTwo. Two other Virgin Galactic pilots received wings on the next SpaceShipTwo flight ...

The main issue is that he didn’t really do much during that flight. In the past, we’ve seen these wings awarded to pilots, like those leading the 2004 SpaceShipOne flight and the SpaceShipTwo ...

(Read Burt Rutan’s first-person account of building and testing SpaceShipOne.) “It was the perfect flight,” says test pilot Brian Binnie, who flew the prize-winning second flight on October ...

SpaceShipOne claimed the Ansari X Prize in 2004 and currently hangs in the “Milestones of Flight” gallery at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Just days before SpaceShipOne ...

Brian Binnie is a former United States Navy officer and test pilot for SpaceShipOne, the experimental space plane created by aeronautical pioneer, Burt Rutan, and his innovative company, Scaled ...

Like SpaceShipOne, Stratolaunch’s Roc project relies on air launch from a twin-fuselage aircraft. For its prize-winning flights in 2004, the SpaceShipOne rocket plane was carried up to high ...

Instead, we drove to Mojave to see the launch of the first private manned space flight, SpaceShipOne. We craned our necks to watch the tiny craft detach from its mothership and zoom up to a record ...