The first to suffer was NASA chief test pilot Joe Walker in his F-104N, as it rolled inverted across the back of the XB-70. The F-104’s T-tail ripped at the Valkyrie’s drooped right wingtip ...

Imagine a bomber so fast it could outrun any fighter jet, soaring at Mach 3 speeds across continents. The XB-70 Valkyrie was this dream made real, pushing engineering to new heights. But its path was ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Only two of the enormous XB-70 bombers were ever built; one resides in a museum in Ohio, the other was destroyed in a collision in ...

UMass Lowell students and researchers are programming one of only four robots in the world that NASA hopes will allow us to one day live on Mars. For the next two years, “Val,” short for Valkyrie, ...

Other supersonic aircraft are also in the works, including from multinational company Dawn Aerospace and US space agency NASA. Fresh off the milestone XB-1 flight, Brandenburg teased a future ...

Credit: ESA WASHINGTON — NASA has directed a set of science committees to pause their work, citing recent Trump administration executive orders, a move that canceled one meeting and put planning ...

Credit: NASA / SpaceX One of the many advantages of being in space is having a front-row seat to the most anticipated cosmic events. Pettit pointed a camera toward one of the space station's ...

NASA said it would do that “as soon as practical.” By Kenneth Chang In a post on X on Tuesday evening, Elon Musk said President Trump had asked his rocket company SpaceX to bring home “as ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA affirmed on Wednesday a plan it set last year to work with Elon Musk's SpaceX in returning two astronauts from the International Space Station, saying it will do so "as ...

NASA created the program to procure a Space Shuttle to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station. In 2014, the agency awarded contracts to both Boeing and SpaceX. Boeing received $4.2 ...

One of NASA's two stuck astronauts got a much welcomed change of scenery Thursday, stepping out on her first spacewalk since arriving at the International Space Station more than seven months ago.

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity Tuesday, without straying too far from home. Blue Origin launched the 29 lunar technology experiments to the edge of ...