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HUNTSVILLE — In honor of the members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery for the benefit of all, the agency […]

WASHINGTON — NASA has selected three Huntsville companies and the University of Alabama at Birmingham to provide research, engineering, and mission integration services for the International Space Station Program. Axient, […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Everything continues to progress toward the first ULA Vulcan flight test and certification mission, officials with United Space Alliance announced. The mission is planned to lift […]

HUNTSVILLE — NASA has achieved a benchmark in developing an innovative propulsion system called the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine. Engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville successfully tested […]

HUNTSVILLE – Two researchers from the University of Alabama in Huntsville Earth System Science Center were recently awarded $402,000 from NASA’s 2022 Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science to […]

HUNTSVILLE — Waterfront Technical Services has been awarded the Marshall Space Flight Center Small Business Subcontractor of the Year. The award qualifies Waterfront for the agency-level NASA Small Business Industry […]

UNA selected to Alabama Space Grant Consortium

FLORENCE – The University of North Alabama has been selected to be part of the Alabama Space Grant Consortium, a collaboration that will provide resources and other opportunities for the […]

NASA 'Psyched' about mission to metal-rich asteroid

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on its voyage to an asteroid of the same name, a metal-rich world that could tell us more about the formation […]

HOUSTON — The sample of a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid has evidence of carbon and water, NASA announced today. Initial studies of the sample from the asteroid Bennu show evidence of […]

Asteroid sample has landed; to be examined in Houston

HOUSTON — After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid […]

HUNTSVILLE — An asteroid sample is scheduled to land today in a Utah desert and should bring NASA one step closer to studying the earliest history of our solar system. […]

HUNTSVILLE — Scientists have made claims of a discovery of a distant planet that has water and oceans. The researchers have focused their research on a massive planet that is […]

HUNTSVILLE – The U.S. Space and Rocket Center is hosting a ’70s-themed dinner to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Skylab. David Hitt, author of “Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story,” will […]

Space nights: Trash Pandas host M-Braves

MADISON – The Rocket City Trash Pandas are ready for liftoff tonight to launch one of their final homestands of the season. After this series, there are only two more […]

UAH to exhibit multiple projects at SMD Symposium

HUNTSVILLE — The University of Alabama in Huntsville will highlight its extensive capabilities in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, directed energy, information systems, rotorcraft systems, supply chain management and hypersonics during the […]

ULA-built stage is set for Artemis III mission

DECATUR — The United Launch Alliance is playing a critical role in the upcoming Artemis III mission to place a crew on the moon. However, before that can happen the […]

KENT, Wash. — NASA awarded Blue Origin a $35 million Tipping Point partnership today to continue advancing its Blue Alchemist breakthrough revealed this year. Blue Origin, which has a facility […]

Each year, July 20 marks the anniversary of one of humanity’s biggest triumphs: Landing on the moon. On this day in 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became […]

WASHINGTON — Calling the Marshall Space Flight Center “second to none,” Alabama’s junior senator helped secure billions of dollars to fund projects at the NASA field center. U.S. Sen. Katie […]

HUNTSVILLE — Jody Singer is retiring as the director of the Marshall Space Flight Center. Singer made the announcement today; it is effective July 29. She was the first female […]

HUNTSVILLE — Teams at the Marshall Space Flight Center have completed applying a spray-on foam insulation to the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) for the Artemis III mission, NASA announced. […]

Legislation supports Saturn 1B at I-65 exit

MONTGOMERY — The fate of the deteriorating Saturn 1B rocket at the Ardmore exit of Interstate 65 is in the hands of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. […]

HUNTSVILLE — It’s only fitting that a university in the Rocket City would be the overall winner in NASA’s Student Launch challenge. The University of Alabama in Huntsville picked up […]

HUNTSVILLE — Drake State Community & Technical College is hosting a unique summer camp with an out of this world program. The Summer Bridge Camp for high school students is […]