Aerospace

Europe’s biggest aerospace company, EADS, unveiled a design for a space plane powered by a rocket engine and expected to carry a future wealth of space tourists.

For the last eight years privately held XCOR Aerospace Inc. has taken a slow, methodical approach to achieving its vision for reusable orbital space transportation.

The inaugural rocket from New Mexico’s Spaceport America crashed in the desert today after failing in its mission to reach sub-orbital space.

Momentum is picking up in staging the X Prize Cup, to be held October 20-21 at the Las Cruces International Airport, New Mexico.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada ? It?s a new form of ?high stakes? from this gambling city?a privately-funded and designed expandable space module now circles the Earth.

Armadillo Aerospace of Mesquite, Texas has reported a crash last weekend of their prototype X Prize rocket.