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WASHINGTON — While House Republicans – including North Alabama’s Reps. Dale Strong and Robert Aderholt – voted lockstep to approve President Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill,” a leading GOP senator […]
FLORENCE – University of North Alabama sophomore Heidi Armstrong, an elementary education major, has received a scholarship through the Alabama Space Grant Consortium as part of a program funded by […]
HUNTSVILLE – The Human Exploration Rover Challenge team at the University of Alabama in Huntsville recently hosted the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo from the Dominican Republic during NASA’s Human […]
HUNTSVILLE — In his first visit to Redstone Arsenal as the Army’s top civilian, Secretary Dan Driscoll said he was encouraged by the collaboration among the federal agencies on the […]
HUNTSVILLE — Space is in the name of this Rocket City-based small business, but that’s not necessarily its limits. Though SpaceFactory is designing habitats on Mars for NASA, the 3-D […]
HUNTSVILLE – Researchers from the University of Alabama in Huntsville have partnered with the Alabama Forestry Commission and NASA’s FireSense initiative to study prescribed burns in the Geneva National Forest in South Alabama. The […]
HUNTSVILLE — The presidential order to end federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs now includes NASA and the Artemis mission to the moon. Other actions following President Trump’s Executive Order […]
HUNTSVILLE — Calling Jared Isaacman a “strategic and assertive administrator,” Gov. Kay Ivey threw her support behind Isaacman’s nomination as NASA administrator. Isaacman, a graduate of Space Camp at the […]
HUNTSVILLE – Officials from Alabama State Parks and the Von Braun Astronomical Society gathered today with city leaders and representatives from NASA to dedicate a Moon Tree – a tree […]
HUNTSVILLE — With a design to further support federal customers and their critical missions in national security, Peraton opened a state-of-the-art facility today. “We are excited to officially open our […]
HUNTSVILLE — Among all the challenges of voyaging to and landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated. To quickly and […]
HUNTSVILLE — Backed by a recent $11.4 million Department of Defense contract through the Missile Defense Agency at Redstone Arsenal, Auburn University’s Applied Research Institute in Huntsville’s Cummings Research Park […]
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 Flight Center in Huntsville. Under […]
WASHINGTON — The DOGE axe came down on NASA this afternoon as about 10% of the space agency’s workforce was cut as part of the Trump Administration’s efforts to reduce […]
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 and work on the lunar surface. […]
VAN HORN, Texas — Blue Origin completed its 29th New Shepard flight and 14th payload mission today which was to simulate lunar gravity. The payloads experienced roughly two minutes of lunar […]
WASHINGTON — Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our […]
WASHINGTON — NASA, along with its industry and international partners, is preparing for sustained exploration of the lunar surface with the Artemis campaign to advance science and discovery. As part […]
AUBURN — In-Space Manufacturing capabilities for structural and functional parts — tools, electronics, and sensors — is an inevitable part of future space activity. That’s why the world leader in space […]
WASHINGTON — NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission, the fourth mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program, managed by the Marshall Space Flight Center in […]
HUNTSVILLE — NASA has awarded Alabama A&M University a $1.2 million grant to expand programs supporting students who have been historically underrepresented and underserved in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. […]
HUNTSVILLE — Nuclear propulsion in space, artificial intelligence and the Artemis program are on the agenda this week for the Von Braun Space Exploration Symposium. The theme is “Expanding Exploration: […]
HUNTSVILLE – Teledyne Brown Engineering has been selected to provide Earth observation data and related services to NASA. This indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award contract has a cumulative maximum value of $476 million. […]
HUNTSVILLE – Ashok Silwal, a doctoral candidate and graduate research assistant at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has been chosen to receive a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth […]