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 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 ...

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 ...

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 Blended Wing Body (BWB) design has been around since the 1920s but has only seen real-world use in military aircraft, like the B-1 Lancer bomber. Unlike a flying wing (which is all wing) or a ...