Science: Students Plan To Be Wright Brothers In Space

Forget blast off, spread your wings and fly 

A bunch of students – that's right students – from the University of Manchester are aiming to become the Wright Brothers of space with the world's first working spaceplane, writes Mark Cantrell

THE dream of spaceflight reaches high, whether that's to Mars or the stars, but to get off the ground we still rely on the brute force of rocketry to climb up the gravity well and reach that essential baby step to the final frontier –...