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After launching NASA twin spacecraft on Mars mission, Blue Origin’s New Glenn lands fully reusable booster

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. — "Yeah, baby!" Amid cheers rivaling a football game, a New Glenn booster landed Thursday afternoon after delivering a...

United Launch Alliance Atlas V mission to enhance future of global connectivity

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. – With a mission to help enhance global connectivity, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifted off...

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...