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Sen. Shelby helps Space Development Agency secure funding for ops and integration centers at Redstone Arsenal

HUNTSVILLE – U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) was instrumental in securing FY22 funding to help the Space Development Agency locate operations and integration centers...

Boeing celebrates 60 years in Alabama; generated $2.7B in economic impact in ’21

HUNTSVILLE -- The Rocket City is the economic engine of North Alabama and a major aerospace company helps boost that engine. Boeing, celebrating 60 years...

NASA opens phase two of $3.5M Break the Ice Lunar excavation competition

HUNTSVILLE -- NASA launched the second phase of its Break the Ice Lunar Challenge to advance technology that is – quite literally – groundbreaking. The challenge invites...

Bastion Technologies’ Brad Atkinson receives NASA Space Flight Awareness award

HUNTSVILLE -- Brad Atkinson, a safety and mission assurance quality engineer at Bastion Technologies, was recently selected to receive the NASA Space Flight Awareness...

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...