In a recent contest, teams of researchers competed to see who could train an AI model to best pilot a spaceship. The results ...

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Dozens apply for space pilot jobs. SpaceShipTwo and its carrier airplane, WhiteKnightTwo, fly together above California's Mojave Desert. Virgin Galactic. April 13, 2011, 10:07 PM EDT.

The man chosen to become the first private-sector space pilot says he is "ready to go" on a mission that organizers hope will begin a new era in manned spaceflight. MSNBC.com's Alan Boyle reports.

Virgin Galactic today announced the appointment of two new pilots into its Pilot Corps, bringing the total number of pilots to eight. Jameel Janjua and Patrick Moran will be based at Spaceport Amer… ...

On Saturday, June 8 at 8:31 a.m., 45-year-old Janjua departed from Spaceport America in New Mexico, piloting a mission to space — for the very first time.

The famous adventurer died while paragliding on Italy’s Adriatic coast. His legacy includes a number of world ...

Pilot and engineer Peter Siebold was running what seemed like a 24/7 simulator operation, contributing misery and challenges to the rest of us as we tried to keep up.

But in order to test, say, the actual SpaceShip Two, you have to fly while another plane chases from close behind. That’s formation flying, and it’s fighter-pilot stuff---a skill most civilian ...

A name has been added to the U.S. national memorial for fallen astronauts, honoring the first commercial spacecraft pilot to die in the pursuit of opening spaceflight to the public. Michael ...

The pilot killed in a test flight of Virgin Galactic's prototype space tourism rocket was as capable behind the controls of experimental aircraft as he was tackling technical challenges in ...