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Joseph Pelfrey, director of Marshall Space Flight Center, resigns

HUNTSVILLE -- Joseph Pelfrey, director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, resigned Thursday. Pelfrey said in an email to employees at the space agency that as...

Dream chasing: Strong relaunches legislation to fund space transportation infrastructure 

WASHINGTON – Reinforcing the area's influence in the U.S. space program, U.S. Rep. Dale W. Strong has re-introduced the Spaceport Project Opportunities for Resilient...

Dr. Margrit von Braun to headline Space Explorers Celebration in Huntsville

HUNTSVILLE – Dr. Margrit von Braun will return to a place rich with personal and historic meaning when she takes the stage as guest...

‘The end of the slow aerospace’: PDW’s new Huntsville factory races to mass-produce drones at wartime scale

HUNTSVILLE — The “future of warfare” is being assembled on the factory floor of PDW’s newly opened Drone Factory 01 in Research Park. The...

Robinson announces retirement from US Space & Rocket Center; nationwide search for CEO launched

HUNTSVILLE – Dr. Kimberly Robinson, whose leadership helped bring the U.S. Space & Rocket Center from near-bankruptcy and closure, has retired, according to a news...

UAH project on NASA rocket to study converting reentry heat into electrical energy

HUNTSVILLE – The Terminus Spaceflight Research Group at the University of Alabama in Huntsville is set to send a payload into space this month,...

UAH alum-SLS chief engineer Dr. John Blevins receives ‘Sammie,’ premier award for career federal employees

HUNTSVILLE – Dr. John Blevins, an alumnus of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has received the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal, or...

UAH student club’s ion thruster project wins AIAA conference

HUNTSVILLE – The Electric Propulsion Club at the University of Alabama in Huntsville soared to first place at the American Institute of Aeronautics and...

Drake State continues partnership with NASA program to support aerospace training initiative

HUNTSVILLE – You can say, Drake State Community and Technical College has a "hunch" about its partnership with NASA. In fact, the school is strengthening...

No gravity? No problem: Auburn professor tests 3D printer aboard ‘Vomit Comet’

AUBURN -- Calling it a "small step for our printer, one giant leap for space-based fabrication," an Auburn associate professor declared a test of...