Aerospace

Boeing will develop portions of the U.S. Air Force's new ground control system for more secure, accurate and precise navigation.

3 | April 12, 2010 9:56am | By Andrew Nusca

Jerry Larson builds the rockets and hopes to create a marketplace for commercial cargo service. Will Laron's company, Up Aerospace, be the US Airways for cargo or will NASA continue to hold down...

March 25, 2010 10:27am | By Boonsri Dickinson

Zipping around the earth's atmosphere, or even to the moon, may require a different kind of insurance.

1 | February 26, 2010 9:33am | By Joe McKendrick

Elon Musk's critics have come out of the woodwork because President Obama's NASA budget favors private rocket companies over traditional and expensive NASA space flight programs. Are Musk and...

4 | February 24, 2010 1:54pm | By John Dodge

For the first time, see satellite images of the world's biggest graveyard for military aircraft.

2 | February 24, 2010 8:48am | By Andrew Nusca

MIT has launched a project to create images in three dimensional space. The idea is challenging, but researchers think the ultra-tiny computing technologies exist to pull it off.

February 19, 2010 9:18am | By John Dodge

The space agency awards a $500 million contract for development of a suit astronauts may wear to the moon or Mars.

13 | January 28, 2010 4:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

NASA on Wednesday said that it is working on a personal flying suit and stealth plane concept called "Puffin."

14 | January 22, 2010 6:34am | By Andrew Nusca

Space Adventures President and CEO Eric Anderson says once a lunar mission is announced, it will take place within three to five years.

4 | January 12, 2010 4:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

New space education program has reserved a seat aboard SpaceShipTwo for one lucky volunteer.

3 | January 4, 2010 4:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

Boeing's first 787 "hopscotches" around Washington state, performs touch and go.

January 2, 2010 6:30am | By John Dodge

The designer of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, Teague's John Barret, discusses how passenger comfort and interior design played a role in the design of the breakthrough airplane.

1 | December 16, 2009 8:51am | By Andrew Nusca

Florida will become the launch pad for high-speed rail innovation, just as it was for space travel.

8 | December 11, 2009 7:49am | By Joe McKendrick

A panel recently concluded that NASA should consider flying to one of Mars' moons, rather than the planet itself. But the suggestion is still dangerous.

26 | September 16, 2009 1:21pm | By Andrew Nusca

The U.S. Department of Defense has contracted for the development of bullet-resistant windows that dim instantly with a touch of a button.

September 14, 2009 7:27am | By Andrew Nusca

NASA wants to spend nearly $19 billion in the year starting October 1, for a program totally divorced from market forces the President's own advisory committee now calls unrealistic. How much more...

2 | September 10, 2009 2:00pm | By Dana Blankenhorn

Does Carson want to be remembered as the guy who "reset" the 787's schedule? That forgettable footnote will go into the dustbin of 787 history once the plane flies and becomes a success. Why...

1 | September 2, 2009 10:06am | By John Dodge

There's a market for everything -- including commercial travel well past the 35,000-foot level. A vast new business frontier is about to open up above us.

1 | August 27, 2009 7:50am | By Joe McKendrick

A 20-minute podcast with an avionics engineer analyzes the final four minutes of technical messages transmitted by flight 447 to Air France maintenance. The engineer only identified as "Darryl"...

1 | June 11, 2009 9:30am | By John Dodge

Seamans, who was deputy administrator for NASA for the better part of the 1960s' had to make key decisions such as whether to go directly to moon from earth orbit or use a moon orbiter...

1 | June 11, 2009 5:59am | By John Dodge