Because of the way initial machines meant to take humans beyond the borders of our planet were made, we presently cannot envision spaceflight as starting any other way than by means of vertical ...

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 ...

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 ...

San Francisco has a place of honor for a pen wielded by President Woodrow Wilson a century ago. He used it to sign the Raker Act, which allowed the city to divert some of the Tuolumne River upstream ...