On Dec. 22, 1966, the HL-10 Lifting Body took its first flight. The HL-10 was a heavy-lifting, horizontal landing plane built ...

Ever since the dawn of aviation many years ago aircraft have established themselves as fixed-wing machines capable of taking to the sky. Why winged? Well, for the simple reason that such a design is ...

The 1970s were extremely important years for space exploration. Fresh from landing for the first time on the Moon, the Americans were hard at work trying to design reusable spacecraft for repeated ...

When people compare body lift vs suspension lift, they often focus on looks first and function second. But in the off-road ...

Lockheed Martin has revealed its latest thinking on NASA's OrbitalSpace Plane (OSP) with the opening of a demonstration centre inWashingtonDC. Whereas Boeing is believed to have selected a ballistic ...

The future of human space transportation, not only into Earth orbit, but also back to the moon and on to Mars, kick-started this week as NASA received contractor proposals for the Crew Exploration ...

Ask someone to picture an airplane and they’re likely to think of what is essentially a tube with wings and a stabilizing tail tacked onto one end of said tube. Yet it is also no secret that the lift ...