US space tourism firm Space Adventures is offering a spaceflight around the moon to private tourists on “proven” Russian Soyuz spacecraft, saying that the sponsors will not have to wait for long for their trip. “Using flight-proven Russian space vehicles we will fly two private citizens and one professional cosmonaut on a free return trajectory around the far side of the moon. They will come... 

Nazi chief Hermann Goering, seeking retaliation for US strikes in Dresden, devised a bizarre plot to attack New York using a manned space rocket equipped with a dirty bomb. In an effort to gain Hitler’s favor, Goering established a lab and assembled a team of scientists to explore the possibility of a radioactive attack on American soil. Inspired by the ideas of Austrian engineer Eugen Saenger,... 

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has announced plans to build a spaceship that could replace the Space Shuttle, launch rockets, and carry cargo into space. Allen is planning to launch rockets from a giant aircraft to put satellites and eventually passengers into space. The developers say six jumbo jet engines would power the aircraft and it would have a wingspan of 117 meters. “I have long dreamed...