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October 10, 2005

UP, UP and Aerospace?

New Vendor Offers Inexpensive Payload Lifts

by Aero-News Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. O'Brien While the focus and certainly the glamour is all on manned spaceflight this week, a new vendor was displaying its wares, and reminding us that there remains a robust market for sounding rockets that can fly small payloads into suborbital space.

Two Test Pilots Talk About Their Flights And Their Aircraft

It has been just over one year since the privately-funded SpaceShipOne flew into space, twice within five days, to claim the Ansari X-Prize. With that in mind, we felt it would be an appropriate time to revisit one of our inaugural Aero-Cast features: our coverage of a presentation from this year's AirVenture 2005, featuring former X-15 pilot Scott Crossfield -- the first man to fly a winged vehicle into suborbital space -- and Mike Melvill, pilot of SpaceShipOne's first flight into space, as well as the first of the two X-Prize-winning flights.