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SpaceX is moving ahead quickly with its Starship rocket. Elon Musk’s space-exploration company announced on Wednesday that the next Starship test flight could take place as soon as two weeks…

The CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL aircraft has completed its first liftoff for the official start of its flight-test campaign. Airbus Helicopters CEO Bruno Even made the announcement yesterday on X. “I’m…

Hydrofoils have become the go-to technology for boats, making sailboats faster, powerboats infinitely more efficient, and they’re even starting to show up on superyachts. Airfoils come in many examples, the…

Sir Richard Branson has signed on to be the co-pilot of Space Perspective’s first space balloon flight sometime next year, which could be the the 74-year-old billionaire adventurer’s eighth Guinness…

Talk about floating to the top of the world. Space Perspective made the first successful full test of its 700-foot-long space balloon and eight-person capsule on Sunday. The hydrogen-filled balloon…

“We are mission complete,” Jared Isaacman radioed SpaceX’s mission control after it splashed down at 3:36 a.m. ET Sunday, 70 miles west of Key West. After the Crew Dragon capsule…

Blue Origin successfully landed its NS-26 mission, its 26th mission aboard its New Shepard rocket since the first uncrewed launch in January 2021, and the eighth with passengers. Its last…

President Joe Biden may have made his political swan song last night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, but he arrived in the coolest way possible—making the first presidential…

One of the leading eVTOL makers just achieved another huge milestone. Archer Aviation has announced that its Midnight aircraft just completed its first successful hover-to-horizontal flight transition a mere seven…

One billionaire just said goodbye to his lunar adventure—for now. Yusaku Maezawa, the founder of Japan’s largest online fashion retailer, has called off his planned trip around the moon on…