HUNTSVILLE — The Rocket City is the economic engine of North Alabama and a major aerospace company helps boost that engine. Boeing, celebrating 60 years in Alabama, generates more than […]

HUNTSVILLE — NASA launched the second phase of its Break the Ice Lunar Challenge to advance technology that is – quite literally – groundbreaking. The challenge invites the public to design a […]

HUNTSVILLE — Brad Atkinson, a safety and mission assurance quality engineer at Bastion Technologies, was recently selected to receive the NASA Space Flight Awareness launch honoree award for his contributions […]

HUNTSVILLE — There were dozens of perfect liftoffs at NASA’s 2022 Student Launch rocketry competition at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as winners were announced live via Facebook. Of the […]

HUNTSVILLE – Do you have the right stuff to colonize a planet if given the chance? Experience G-force in a spinning capsule, find water, build a habitat, grow space potatoes, […]

HUNTSVILLE — Aerojet Rocketdyne was chosen to build a booster for a Lockheed Martin hypersonic weapon system, the companies announced. The solid rocket booster is the second stage of a […]

Paul Gradl, a principal engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center here in Huntsville, won the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ 2022 Premier Award for Engineer of the Year. […]

HUNTSVILLE – Huntsville International Airport has been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration to allow commercial space vehicles to land in Huntsville. It is the first commercial airport in the […]

HUNTSVILLE — You can’t help but wonder what Benjamin Franklin would think. Blue Origin’s private foundation, Club for the Future, basically establishes a send and pickup mail service to and […]

HUNTSVILLE — Research to propel microsatellites and CubeSats will take a University of Alabama in Huntsville student to Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico this fall. Andrew Walsten, a native […]

HUNTSVILLE — NASA has recognized a new generation of potential space explorers who competed in the agency’s 28th annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The annual event challenges high school and […]

Joseph Pelfrey has been appointed deputy director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. In his new role, the former manager of MSFC’s Human Exploration Development and Operations office […]

Two University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) space scientists who are research directors in a heliophysics DRIVE Science Center at Boston University (BU) in which UAH is a partner had […]

One of Huntsville’s many homegrown gems, Cummings Aerospace, has appointed chief systems engineer Roger F. Bartlett, to program director at the company’s Tucson, Arizona facility. In his new role at […]

Alumni achievements are in focus as the Propulsion Research Center (PRC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), celebrates its 30th anniversary with a pandemic-delayed banquet on April 14 […]

A robotic rover developed for use on Mars by the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s (UAH) Space Hardware Club (SHC) will compete in the Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge (URC) finals […]

Northern Virginia’s Aeyon, a portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital and experts in developing comprehensive robotic process automation (RPA) and AI technologies to the Department of Defense and related civilian agencies, […]

Cummings Aerospace announced the appointment of Jenni Feld as the company’s versatile new chief financial officer. Feld brings over 20 years of experience in government contract accounting and financial expertise, […]

There was a lot happening in the world yesterday with St. Patrick’s Day and Spring Break, but something extraordinary also occurred at Kennedy Space Flight Center in Merritt Island, Florida. […]

Under a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) research contract for the Space Nuclear Propulsion project office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is […]

Space Command leader Gen. James Dickinson told a congressional military readiness hearing last Tuesday, “I’ve got to have a decision…sooner rather than later” on whether his Space Command headquarters will […]

In case you missed it, the Alabama Chapter of the Aerospace States Association held its annual “Aerospace Day at the Capitol” February 23 at the RSA Activity Center in Montgomery. […]

Ever since the U.S. Air Force announced last January that the Space Command headquarters would be moving to Huntsville from Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado lawmakers have […]

Yes, much like old cars abandoned in a junkyard where only sentimental mechanics go to strip them of reusable parts, so go once magnificent pieces of spaceflight hardware to the […]