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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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.

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.

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… ...

After months of testing Richard Branson’s rocket-powered plane at lower altitudes, two of Virgin Galactic’s test pilots made it to the edge of space on Thursday — 51.4 miles above Earth.

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.

Dr. Sian Proctor, the first African American woman to pilot a spaceship, shares her journey inspired by her late father’s encouragement and overcoming self-doubt. Now a U.S. Science Envoy, she ...

Brian Binne, veteran test pilot of SpaceShipOne, weighs in on flying the first commercial spacecraft and what the future of private space travel holds in his new book "The Magic and Menace of ...

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 ...

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 ...