The X-66 program heavily modified a McDonnell Douglas MD-90 aircraft to demonstrate a truss-braced version of the thin wing.

Based on a heavily modified McDonnell Douglas MD-90, the X-66 was intended to demonstrate a truss-braced version of the thin wing at full scale. The experimental aircraft formed the flagship of NASA’s ...

Bothell-area resident Jeff Thornburg saw an opportunity to develop a new type of spacecraft. One, he says is more maneuverable, more capable, and more rapid.

The North American X-15 was an experimental Air Force and NASA Hypersonic Rocket powered aircraft that was used to ...

SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying multiple satellites. The Bandwagon-3 mission included a German re-entry capsule, ...

The plume from a rocket engine burn high in Earth's atmosphere caused a glowing spectacle similar in appearance to a nebula.

SpaceX lofted yet another batch of next-gen spy satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) this morning (April 20). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from California's foggy Vandenberg ...

Washington resident Jeff Thornburg has an impressive and lengthy resume, and now his company has a new type of space vehicle: ...

Nasa astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth from the International Space Station – coincidentally on his 70th birthday – aboard the Russian Suyoz spacecraft early on Sunday morning.