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The Concorde Of The Future: Paris To Japan In Just 2.5 Hours, Emissions Free

Flying Paris to Tokyo in less time than it takes to watch two movies, with barely a wisp of exhaust? That's the plan for the Zhest rocketplane being developed in Europe. READ»

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The Skylon: Britain's Bad-Ass Rocketplane And Possible Shuttle Successor

As NASA settles for a tried and trusted solution, Britain's plans for a next-gen Space Shuttle inch forward with the Skylon: A black, future-tech spaceplane that absolutely looks the part.READ»

Skylon Rocketplane Brings Us One Flight Closer to Super-Cheap Space Launches

A million Euros of funding (around $1.25 million U.S.) has just been awarded to Reaction Engines Ltd. to develop a radical kind of space launcher known as the Skylon. Far from being a pencils-slim structure rocketing into the sky on ...READ»