WASHINGTON – The Marshall Space Flight Center’s proposal for the Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor, also known as MoonBEAM, was one of four proposals chosen for the agency’s Explorers Program. […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Another small step is taken. Around 7:30 a.m. EDT today, the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission arrived atop Launch Complex […]

HUNTSVILLE — Rain almost waterlogged NASA’s Super Guppy and prevented it from landing Wednesday at the Redstone Army Airfield. But the fat fish-shaped transport plane touched down a little after […]

HUNTSVILLE — NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center quietly welcomed its new deputy director, Joseph Pelfrey, to his new position in April. But who is the man who assists in leading […]

WASHINGTON — As NASA prepares for the first integrated flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft to the moon this summer, the agency is moving […]

HUNTSVILLE – After its historic launch in December, the James Webb Space Telescope  completed one of the most complex deployments ever performed in space to position itself to take the […]

PROMONTORY, Utah — A recent booster motor test-firing was called a success by NASA officials. Teams from NASA’s Space Launch System program and Northrop Grumman fired a ground-based version of […]

NASA officials on Wednesday announced three targeted launch dates for the Huntsville-assembled Space Launch System (SLS), which will mark the beginning of the agency’s Artemis I mission. During a news […]

WASHINGTON — NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of […]

NASA is targeting Saturday, June 18, for the beginning of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at the Kennedy […]

HUNTSVILLE – Teledyne Brown Engineering is celebrating the fifth anniversary of their International Space Station (ISS)-based Multi-User System for Earth Sensing known as MUSES. The precision-pointing platform for earth-viewing instruments […]

HUNTSVILLE — The Rocket City is the economic engine of North Alabama and a major aerospace company helps boost that engine. Boeing, celebrating 60 years in Alabama, generates more than […]

HUNTSVILLE — NASA launched the second phase of its Break the Ice Lunar Challenge to advance technology that is – quite literally – groundbreaking. The challenge invites the public to design a […]

DECATUR — Donna C. Coleman, Calhoun Community College alumna and founder/CEO of Huntsville’s Aetos Systems, will speak at this year’s commencement exercises, the school announced. More than 450 graduates are […]

HUNTSVILLE — NASA has recognized a new generation of potential space explorers who competed in the agency’s 28th annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The annual event challenges high school and […]

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 Exploration Development and Operations office […]

Under a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) research contract for the Space Nuclear Propulsion project office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is […]

An Alabama-made United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the GOES-T spacecraft for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA lifted off this week from Cape Canaveral. […]

An image created by University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) astrophysicists who did pioneering research to quantify processes involved in gas mixing in the tails of galaxies being stripped of […]

Yes, much like old cars abandoned in a junkyard where only sentimental mechanics go to strip them of reusable parts, so go once magnificent pieces of spaceflight hardware to the […]

A new type of large, fully-composite, linerless cryogenic fuel tank, designed and manufactured by Boeing passed a critical series of tests at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center late last year. […]

Christmas Day will see the launch of NASA’s historic James Webb Space Telescope which will allow mankind to gain a deeper understanding of early space formation. The momentous occasion is […]

HUNTSVILLE — Marshall Space Flight Center officials on Tuesday played host to NASA administrator Bill Nelson, where the agency head met with team members and received briefings regarding ongoing efforts […]

Space-related operations conducted by Boeing’s Huntsville workforce have contributed to the aerospace titan’s recognition from the Aviation Week Program for its support of the International Space Station (ISS). The Aviation […]