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US military space plane blasts off on another secretive mission
The Space Force's reusable, robotic craft is carrying classified experiments. There's no one on board.
A Navy-Air Force showdown looming in Arizona senate race?
The seat is now held by Republican Martha McSally, a former congresswoman and Air Force pilot who was appointed by Arizona’s GOP governor after longtime Republican Sen. John McCain died.
Next stop on Marine vet’s space odyssey: Astronaut Hall of Fame
James Buchli’s path from Fargo to space was anything but meteoric.
US lawmaker links small defense firms in Maryland
A Maryland congressman is launching a local consortium on Tuesday to link small aerospace and defense firms and educational institutions in the Pentagon’s backyard — so the companies can solve common problems like workforce shortages.
By Joe Gould
Alabama city built on federal dollars feeling shutdown pinch
About 70 federal agencies are located at the Army’s 38,000-acre Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. As the government shutdown drags into a third week, people and businesses that rely on some facet of Washington-backed spending for their livelihood are showing the strain.
NASA astronaut and Air Force Col. Nick Hague set for new Space Station mission after abort
NASA astronaut and Air Force Col. Nick Hague, who was forced to abort his recent mission to the International Space Station, is scheduled to launch again Feb. 28 from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
By PR Newswire via AP
Memorabilia from astronauts Armstrong, Glenn up for auction
A series of auctions involving some 2,000 artifacts and mementoes owned by Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, begins Thursday and runs through November 2019.
Astronauts picked for SpaceX, Boeing capsule test flights
NASA on Friday assigned the astronauts who will ride the first commercial capsules into orbit next year and bring crew launches back to the U.S.
Air Force and NASA look to collaborate on deep space medicine
Representatives from NASA recently visited David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, California, — one of the largest hospitals in the United States — to establish medical collaboration for deep space exploration, as well as warfighters here on Earth.
By Kyle Rempfer
The last rocket pilot
Joe Engle flew everything from Super Sabres to the Space Shuttle, but it is as an X-15 pilot that he is perhaps best known.
By Mark Carlson, Aviation History Magazine