Editor's note: Boom Supersonic successfully broke the sound barrier with the XB-1 today ... of the company's small Falcon 1 rocket. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 made history on Tuesday by becoming the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. Before ...

Boom's Supersonic XB-1 jet became the “world’s first independently developed supersonic jet” to break the sound barrier ...

Chuck Yeager flew a rocket-propelled experimental aircraft across the Mojave Desert -- taking off from the Mojave Air and Space Port just as the XB-1 did. Before today's sound barrier-breaking ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday ... The flight at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California, took place as the ...

The countdown has begun for the XB-1’s “historic” first supersonic test flight that should break the sound barrier, according ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde ... Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday ... explosion of the space shuttle Challenger ...

The XB-1's flight, livestreamed from the Mojave Air & Space Port in California, made it the first civil supersonic jet made in the U.S. to break the sound barrier. Manned by Boom Supersonic's ...