Spaceflight Archive
30 April 2013, 06:43 PM ET
In Friday's launch, a Soyuz rocket carried a Glonass satellite to orbit.
30 April 2013, 02:19 PM ET
That's about $8 million more than the previous going rate.
30 April 2013, 01:05 PM ET
NASA's first space shuttle, Enterprise, will soon have a new pavilion home in New York City.
30 April 2013, 10:55 AM ET
ESA's Herschel Space Telescope peers deep into the universe.
30 April 2013, 09:24 AM ET
The Remote Controlled research staff and several of the lifting body models displayed with the radio controlled mothership.
30 April 2013, 09:00 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's Sir Richard Branson and George Whitesides talk about Space tourism's next huge step taken on April 29th, 2013.
30 April 2013, 07:24 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's first SpaceShipTwo customers could be flying by the end of the year.
30 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo is almost ready to carry tourists to space.
30 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
It will soon cost $250,000 for a seat instead of $200,000, company officials say.
29 April 2013, 05:47 PM ET
See reactions and celebrations of Virgin Galactic's major rocket-powered flight test of SpaceShipTwo on April 29, 2013.
29 April 2013, 05:00 PM ET
See what it was like to watch SpaceShipTwo soar in its first supersonic test flight.
29 April 2013, 04:05 PM ET
Virgin Galactic conducted a historic first supersonic test flight of SpaceShipTwo on April 29, 2013, in the Mojave Desert, Calif., as seen in this stunning space wallpaper.
29 April 2013, 03:04 PM ET
The storm's eye spans a whopping 1,250 miles.
29 April 2013, 02:21 PM ET
See photos of the amazing X-15 rocket plane that pioneered human spaceflight in the 1960s
29 April 2013, 01:30 PM ET
Who were the men behind the X-15?
29 April 2013, 01:19 PM ET
Virgin Galactic's suborbital vehicle makes its first powered ascent on April 29, 2013. Exceeding Mach 1, but not (yet) trying for 'space' altitude, the test was deemed successful by the shipbuilder Scaled Composites.
29 April 2013, 11:49 AM ET
Now that private space plane SpaceShipTwo has made its first rocket-powered test flight, would you ride it?
29 April 2013, 11:31 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo fired its rocket motor for 16 seconds in the historic April 29, 2013 test flight.
29 April 2013, 11:19 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo fired up its rocket motor in flight for the 1st time on April 29, 2013. See the photos.
29 April 2013, 11:00 AM ET
SpaceShipTwo is expected to take paying customers into space around 2015.
29 April 2013, 11:00 AM ET
See photos of Virgin Galactic's private spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, as it undergoes testing for future space tourism flights.
29 April 2013, 10:52 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has lit its rocket engine in flight
29 April 2013, 10:47 AM ET
ISS commander Chris Hadfield explains how astronauts stay hydrated and why Space Station must try to recycle everything.
29 April 2013, 09:45 AM ET
A female astronaut simulates an emergency egress procedure using the sky genie.
29 April 2013, 06:45 AM ET
Lunokhod 1 last trekked across the lunar surface more than four decades ago.
