Lynx rocket plane readying for summer flight

The Lynx, a two seat rocket-powered airplane under development by XCOR Aerospace, is on track to start flight testing this summer, company executives tell me. If all goes as planned, that will make two rocket planes blasting out of the Mojave Air and Space Port this...

Reda Anderson, RIP

Pioneers are those brave enough to go where no one, or few, have gone before. Usually that involves taking a risk; if it were completely safe, the way would already be well-traveled. Reda Anderson was such a one. I had the pleasure of meeting her back in 2006, when...
The way God and Heinlein intended

The way God and Heinlein intended

Grasshopper is SpaceX’s reusable rocket. In a test flight last week at the company’s McGregor, TX proving grounds, the 10-story machine reached the height of a 12-story building before settling back to the launch pad on a jet of flame. As science fiction...