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Winners of NASA’s 2022 Student Launch rocketry competition announced

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...

Drive a rover, plant space potatoes and more at Space Center’s Planet Pioneers exhibit

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...

Aerojet Rocketdyne selected by Lockheed Martin for hypersonic missile program

HUNTSVILLE -- Aerojet Rocketdyne was chosen to build a booster for a Lockheed Martin hypersonic weapon system, the companies announced. The solid rocket booster...

NASA Marshall employee honored with AIAA’s Engineer of the Year award

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...

FAA clears Huntsville International Airport for landing commercial space vehicles

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

Postcards from the edge … of Space at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center

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...

CubeSat propulsion research lands UAH student DOE internship

HUNTSVILLE -- Research to propel microsatellites and CubeSats will take a University of Alabama in Huntsville student to Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico...

NASA announces winners of 2022 Human Exploration Rover Challenge

HUNTSVILLE -- NASA has recognized a new generation of potential space explorers who competed in the agency’s 28th annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The...

NASA appoints Joseph Pelfrey as deputy director of Marshall Space Flight Center

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...

Two UAH scientists play major roles in NASA’s Phase II funding of heliophysics DRIVE center

Two University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) space scientists who are research directors in a heliophysics DRIVE Science Center at Boston University (BU) in...