Tech Archive
30 April 2013, 06:43 PM ET
In Friday's launch, a Soyuz rocket carried a Glonass satellite to orbit.
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, 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, 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.
28 April 2013, 10:43 AM ET
Virgin Galactic may attempt a major test flight of its novel SpaceShipTwo on Monday (April 29).
28 April 2013, 10:30 AM ET
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
25 April 2013, 05:40 PM ET
The world needs to get serious about removing debris from orbit.
25 April 2013, 09:34 AM ET
Technicians make adjustments on the solar-powered, remotely piloted craft before its record-setting flight.
24 April 2013, 06:54 PM ET
Planetary Resources hopes to loft a set of cubesats to Earth orbit by this time next year.
24 April 2013, 03:26 PM ET
Die-hard fans are brgining new life to the 1960s Galileo shuttlecraft of TV's original 'Star Trek' series.
24 April 2013, 12:58 PM ET
A solar powered plane makes a test flight over San Francisco ahead of a planned cross country flight in May.
24 April 2013, 08:00 AM ET
A technician focuses a television camera on a ramjet engine in a wind tunnel.
23 April 2013, 08:00 AM ET
The Mock-Up Reactor core as seen from the Plum Brook Facility control room.
23 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
NASA launched three smartphones into space to test a new kind of cheaper satellite.
23 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
NASA had been splitting costs with the U.S. Deparment of Energy.
22 April 2013, 09:33 AM ET
The parafoil undergoes testing in the world's largest wind tunnel.
21 April 2013, 09:03 PM ET
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
19 April 2013, 01:02 PM ET
Teams will compete to tackle challenges during the 48-hour event
19 April 2013, 06:50 AM ET
Russia's new Bion-M spacecraft will send small animals and microorganisms into space for research.
17 April 2013, 08:00 AM ET
A view of the instrumentation inside the A-29 during a research flight.
17 April 2013, 06:44 AM ET
The Antares test flight shows the industry is coming of age, supporters say.
17 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
Funding levels are basically unchanged from 2013, though several programs got the axe.
16 April 2013, 05:50 PM ET
Orbital Sciences cleared the Antares rocket to launch on its maiden flight Wednesday (April 17) from Wallops Island, Va.
16 April 2013, 08:00 AM ET
The Vertol VZ-2 (Model 76) had over a year of research before going back to the manufacturer.