Doing that on a maiden flight would be unprecedented: that kind of partial reusability was pioneered by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s ...

How is the International Space Station able to orbit without burning up? – Mateo, age 8, New York, New York Flying through ...

[Joe] at BPS.space has a thing for rockets, and his latest quest is to build a rocket that will cross the Kármán Line and launch into the Final Frontier. And being the owner of a YouTube ...

In the FAI’s eyes, once you’ve crossed the Kármán Line, you’ve been to space. Easy enough, right? Not if you’re the United States Air Force. By the military’s reckoning, space starts ...

A CANCER survivor beat the disease three times to become the first Scotswoman to blast into space. Nicolina Elrick, 53, made history as she zoomed at a speed of 2,500mph towards a ten-minute zero ...

This design offers exceptional capabilities—it can travel at hypersonic speed and land like a regular aeroplane after ...

An important distinction in space tourism is between suborbital spaceflight – which usually peaks approximately 60 miles above sea level at the Kármán line (the boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere ...

but 69 private individuals have traveled to space so far: 46 above the Kármán line at 62 miles (100 kilometers) plus another 23 at least above the U.S. Air Force’s threshold at 50 miles (80 ...

Watch the latest episode here: Space technically starts above the Kármán line, 62 miles above our heads. Anything over that line is quickly becoming a key area for on-Earth conflicts.

It's even considered closer to space than to any Earth land mass. The Kármán line, known as the boundary of space, is 62 miles above Earth. Astronauts aboard the ISS in equatorial low-Earth ...