MOJAVE, Calif. – SpaceShipOne (search) is one flight away from clinching the Ansari X Prize (search), a $10 million award for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within 14 ...

Thousands of obervers at the Mojave Spaceport and millions watching via webcast and TV were able to follow today’s dramatic flight to space of the SpaceShipOne suborbital vehicle via Ecliptic’s ...

Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions ...

Failures of trim controls for pitch, yaw and roll set back Scaled Composites' bid for to take $10 million X-Prize Scaled Composites' drive to claim the $10 million Ansari X-Prize is on hold while the ...

LOS ANGELES – The creators of SpaceShipOne (search) will go ahead with plans for another launch next week to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize (search) after analyzing a roll that occurred as it ...

SpaceShipOne has completed its historic flight and has safely landed. SpaceShipOne reached its projected altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers) even though its engine cut off early. This is the first ...

MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) - A rocket plane soared above Earth's atmosphere Monday in the first privately financed manned spaceflight, then glided back to Earth for an unpowered landing. SpaceShipOne pilot ...

SpaceShipOne's team has made a date with history for June 21, setting the first full day of summer as launch day for the first piloted spaceflight in a privately developed craft. The announcement of ...

Brushing off a surprising series of rolls, SpaceShipOne (SS1) pilot Mike Melvill took the private craft,funded by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, to the edge of space and back this morning. It was ...

When SpaceShipOne screams skyward this month on a mission to win an international human spaceflight competition, its rocket motor will be more powerful than ever, according to the engine's builders.

Pioneering aircraft designer Burt Rutan, whose Space- ShipOne manned rocket became the first privately funded vehicle to reach space last month, said Tuesday that he would try to win the $10-million ...