The Hillson FH.40 Hurricane, a slip-wing fighter aircraft, transformed during flight by jettisoning its upper wing and ...

On June 21, 2004, the first privately funded human spaceflight, launched on SpaceShipOne. The ship flew 62.5 miles above Earth's surface -- just a few miles above the boundary of space -- for about 3 ...

On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne reached the final frontier for the first time, notching a huge milestone for private spaceflight and paving the way for space tourism.

The private space race launched 20 years ago with a simple and elegant piece of aerospace engineering. Here's to Virgin Galactic and Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne!

The flight followed the pattern of previous SpaceShipOne missions. The rocket plane was first carried to a launch altitude of 15km (50,000ft) by the White Knight aircraft.

Blue Origin pinned custom astronaut wings to his flight suit. The Federal Aviation Administration may disagree. Or it may not even matter.

SpaceShipOne claimed the Ansari X Prize in 2004 and currently hangs in the “Milestones of Flight” gallery at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Brian Binne, veteran test pilot of SpaceShipOne, weighs in on flying the first commercial spacecraft and what the future of private space travel holds in his new book "The Magic and Menace of ...

Virgin Galactic's flight to space Thursday was a success, but space tourism flights likely remain a far way off.

A test flight more than a decade in the making is scheduled to take place Dec. 13 as Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo makes its highest flight to date.