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It's not often that we get to cover spy shots here at Engadget, but we're as giddy as school children about this one. The SpaceShipTwo design was officially rolled out in January, and if Flightglobal is to be believed, that image above is the first capture of the craft. Reportedly, the shot was taken in Mojave, California where the vehicle is being constructed at Scaled Composites. One step closer to the next big leap for mankind? Sure looks like it.

On Aug. 1-2, the league will stage a high-flying version of NASCAR with rockets at the EAA AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wisc., in its first-ever exhibition race. Two racers will fly planes powered by rocket engines on a 2-lap circuit around an airborne raceway.

Europe's revolutionary Jules Verne cargo ship pulled within 2.2 miles of the international space station Saturday, proving the craft's long-range rendezvous systems are ready for next week's docking with the complex.

Three groups of sunspots emerged this week. This image was taking by the orbiting SOHO spacecraft. The groups of spots are all growing and capable of producing flares. However, their magnetic polarity pegs them to the last solar cycle, not this one. Credit: SOHO/MDI

ISS Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson and STS-123 mission specialists Rick Linnehan (top left), Robert Behnken and Mike Foreman (bottom) pose for a photo in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station as the mission's second session of extravehicular activity (EVA) draws to a close on March 16, 2008. Credit: NASA.

Three robotic paparazzi orbiting the planet Mars are adjusting their flight paths to track an incoming NASA probe due to land on the red planet in late May.

Lauded as the most advanced spaceship ever built by Europeans, a robotic orbital freighter named Jules Verne will blast off from the Atlantic coast of South America this weekend to begin a three-week chase of the international space station.

This satellite kill could lead to larger problems.

The U.S. Navy could shoot down an errant spy satellite as early as Wednesday night. Now a new computer model shows what might happen.

Ron Paul "Mr. Speaker, I rise to congratulate and commend the designers, builders, sponsors, and pilot of SpaceShipOne on the occasion of its successful flight out of earth's atmosphere on June 21, 2004. What is most remarkable about SpaceShipOne, o...