Multiple issues come into play once an aircraft passes its service ceiling that may cause it to fall out of the sky.

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 ...

Welcome to Edition 7.41 of the Rocket Report! NASA and its contractors at Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue building a ...

NASA and Boeing have effectively cancelled the X-66 Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) concept demonstrator aircraft.

Launch pad in space? Space Force is keen to add to its arsenal a spacecraft that would essentially serve as cosmic equivalent ...

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

Blue Origin is presumably happy just to be nominated for a change, as are Rocket Lab and Stoke. But what about ULA? What about Boeing and Lockheed, which at the present time, after all ...

Boeing and NASA are to pause development of the X-66 flight demonstrator to focus their research on the evolution of long, ...

An MX Aircraft MXS crashed at Langley Air Force Base near Hampton, Virginia. Unconfirmed reports suggest aerobatic pilot Rob Holland may have been aboard. A small plane crashed at Langley Air ...

Fourth-year undergraduate students aim to be the first to obtain reentry data with affordable, small spacecraft called HEDGE.

A rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral, Florida, can be seen as far as Myrtle Beach or Philadelphia. People in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama have ...