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NASA lander tests ‘vacuum cleaner’ on moon for sample collection

Beth Ridgeway - March 7, 2025

HUNTSVILLE -- Among all the challenges of voyaging to and landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples...

‘Cool factor’: Space & Rocket Center chief, UAH alum Robinson named to Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame

Ann Marie Martin - March 5, 2025

HUNTSVILLE -- When Dr. Kimberly Robinson, CEO and executive director of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, was growing up in Birmingham, a NASA...

UAH breakthrough enables measurement of dark matter density

Russ Nelson - March 1, 2025

HUNTSVILLE – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and her...

Tuberville: After Air Force chief confirmed, process to move Space Command to Huntsville begins

Austen Shipley - February 26, 2025

WASHINGTON -- With President Donald Trump back in the White House, it looks as if Space Command may finally move to Redstone Arsenal in...

SpaceX awarded Marshall-managed, $100M planetary defense contract

Bud McLaughlin - February 25, 2025

HUNTSVILLE -- As an asteroid approaches Earth, NASA has awarded a contract to SpaceX for the Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission, managed by the Marshall...

Space & Rocket Center’s Intuitive Planetarium one of USA Today’s 10Best

Bud McLaughlin - February 20, 2025

HUNTSVILLE – Though it's just a few years old, the Intuitive Planetarium at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center has made an impact. In a...

Marshall Space Flight Center impact not yet known as NASA faces 10% cuts agencywide

Bud McLaughlin - February 18, 2025

WASHINGTON -- The DOGE axe came down on NASA this afternoon as about 10% of the space agency's workforce was cut as part of...

Bezos-founded Blue Origin cutting 10% of workforce

Bud McLaughlin - February 13, 2025

WASHINGTON -- Just a month after the inaugural launch of its New Glenn rocket, Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin said it is cutting about 10%...

NASA invests in Artemis studies to support long-term lunar exploration

Bud McLaughlin - February 9, 2025

WASHINGTON -- Huntsville's contributions to the nation's space program continues with the recent announcement by NASA to award study contracts to help support life...

UAH researcher hopes to answer burning question about solar corona and sun

Russ Nelson - February 8, 2025

HUNTSVILLE – A graduate research assistant at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has published a paper in the journal Astronomy and Physics that builds on...

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