What a Blast to Work at NASA. Space Agency Is Sky-High Again in Latest Survey of Federal Employees Exploring the cosmos makes for happy employees, federal workers like to work from home like everyone else, and an agency that...
America's First Black Astronaut Candidate Finally Goes to Space 60 Years Later on Bezos Rocket The brief flight made Ed Dwight the new record-holder for oldest person in space.
SpaceX Plans to Launch 90 Rockets from Vandenberg Space Force Base by 2026. Could That Harm the Coast? SpaceX plans to launch 90 rockets into space from a Santa Barbara County military base by 2026, tripling the number of blasts...
Former Navy SEAL, Harvard Doctor to Be First Korean-American in Space After being a Navy SEAL, becoming an officer, then going to Harvard Medical School and now becoming an astronaut, what other...
Starliner Crew to Join Storied Lineup of Military Astronauts Who Test-Flew U.S. Spacecraft Like the inaugural Boeing Starliner crew are set to do, here are the U.S. military astronauts who have flown to space as...
Boeing Calls Off Its First Astronaut Launch Because of Valve Issue on Rocket The two NASA test pilots had just strapped into Boeing’s Starliner capsule for a flight to the International Space Station...
Boeing Is on the Verge of Launching Astronauts Aboard New Capsule, the Latest Entry to Space Travel NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams insist Starliner is ready for prime time.
European Space Agency Adds 5 New Astronauts in Only Fourth Class since 1978. Over 20,000 Applied For the past year, five fit, academically superior men and women have been spun in centrifuges, submerged for hours, deprived...
NASA Is Seeking a Faster, Cheaper Way to Bring Mars Samples to Earth Retrieving Mars soil and rocks has been on NASA’s to-do list for decades, but the date kept moving forward, as costs...
A Total Solar Eclipse Races Across North America as Clouds Part Along Totality Eclipse mania gripped all of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada, as the moon swept in front of the sun, blotting out daylight...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
Officers with Higher Rank Get Better Care than Those with Lower Ranks at Military Hospitals, Study Finds A look at 1.5 million emergency room visits in the military health system shows that, in addition to racial bias, disparities...
Another Dead End for Airborne Lasers: Air Force Scraps Effort to Mount Directed-Energy Weapon on Fighter Jet The Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator, or SHiELD, was envisioned as a laser weapon mounted on fighter jets such as...
'He Was Great Before He Came to Us': Air Force Leaders Speak at Funeral of Florida Airman Killed by Police The military connection and the attendance and participation by Air Force officials made the service for Roger Fortson an...
Military Ospreys Can't Fly More Than 30 Minutes from Landing Airfield Months After Grounding Lifted Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy V-22 Ospreys were all given the green light to fly again in early March and have been slowly...