Rockwell International’s Star Raker was envisioned as a single stage to orbit mega aircraft capable of transforming energy production and space logistics. Designed during the 1970s energy crisis, it ...
Titans Space, a privately funded California startup, unveiled plans on May 28 for a super heavy-lift, horizontal-takeoff, horizontal-landing, single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane that builds on the ...
This image shows the planned Star-Raker Space Plane, a startlingly ambitious NASA project that intended to combine airplane and spaceship in an effort to harness the power of the sun. Pitched by ...
It’s always irksome when tech companies talk about their latest “moonshot.” The actual moonshot was one of the most incredible accomplishments of humankind. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy ...