A futuristic solar-powered vehicle made by a startup called ... Fambro said he was inspired to start the company after watching the 2004 SpaceShipOne launch. The spaceship was the first privately ...

In cooperation with Google spinoff Skip, the two companies are on the verge of officially launching their MO/GO electric-powered pants to the masses. The MO/GO — short for ‘mountain goat ...

The spacecraft was launched in midair, at an altitude of about 50,000 feet (15,000 m), from the underside of its mothership, White Knight, a turbofan-powered airplane. After SpaceShipOne glided ...

In a nutshell that would mean a solution that has a very low acoustic signature, but is not battery-powered ... the company behind the mighty SpaceShipOne. It likely uses a combustion engine ...

That “something” Evans was referring to that overtook the X-15 in 2004 is SpaceShipOne, a suborbital rocket-powered aircraft that won the Ansari X prize — a prize offering $10 million to the ...

which was flight tested on Scaled Composite’s SpaceShipOne rocket-powered aircraft. “Being ultra-quiet and efficient is the key to achieving longer range and everyday scaled operations ...

Rutan’s team built SpaceShipOne, a small rocket-powered vehicle dropped from an aircraft. SpaceShipOne's feat proved inspirational to many people, including British marketer Richard Branson.

Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson and other passengers wait for the V.S.S. Unity, Virgin Galactic’s suborbital rocket-powered space ... Design work on SpaceShipOne, the experimental predecessor ...

Richard Branson will take a rocket-powered space plane on a 2,400 mile ... after watching a space plane called SpaceShipOne rocket into space to win the Ansari X Prize. Branson bought the rights ...

SpaceShipOne and the Ansari X Prize Instead ... known as VSS Enterprise, was lost during a powered flight. Its takeoff and release from its mother ship was uneventful. But 11 seconds after ...

SpaceShipOne was the product of a joint venture ... simulator and a spaceship that went into that black sky on three of its six powered flights. And Burt was at the helm of all of it.

The mothership would launch a rocket-powered lander capable of reaching ... As a proof of concept, in October 2004 Burt Rutan’s four-ton SpaceShipOne launched from its WhiteKnight mothership ...