John Glenn launched on the Friendship 7 flight, the first human orbital flight for NASA, which premiered this video to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the flight – and has made it available to share ...

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On this day in aviation history, February 19, 1957, the Bell X-14 made its first flight. This aircraft, capable of vertical ...

February 20th has witnessed a myriad of significant events throughout history, transforming societies and influencing global ...

In December last year, NASA spied an asteroid, named 2024 YR4, some tens of thousands of miles away in orbit which, although ...

NASA has revealed the asteroid 2024 YR4 is currently the space rock that's the biggest threat, with a small chance of ...

Pontiac-based program relied on big cubic inches to help usher America’s nascent shuttle design into the later space age.

When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

When space debris is tracked passing into busy airspace, aviation authorities are put in the position of either closing airspace and, where possible, diverting flights—or risking disaster.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Elon Musk, the Head of the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and CEO of ...