College kids at the University of Southern California (USC) blasted above an international altitude record, launching an amateur rocket 470,000 feet into space. The spacecraft, Aftershock II ...

Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far cry from the cotton and rubber used by early high-altitude pilots. This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Excelsior was a series of three high-altitude bailouts that were designed ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established in 1958, and by 1960 it had taken over ...

The midair crash near DCA that killed 67 exposed critical gaps in air traffic management, as investigators uncover frequent near-miss incidents.

Chris Gibson, CEO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, is investing $1 million of his own money into Altitude Lab’s pre-seed venture, which aims to support new companies in the space. Altitude Lab, which is ...