The first crewed flight test in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is targeted for a May 27 launch.

A Northrop Grumman-supplied cockpit upgrade for the U.S. Army’s UH-60 fleet has passed a key testing milestone ahead of a planned full-rate production decision, the company announced on April 22. 

Practically everyone in commercial aerospace is scrambling to figure out how deep, and how long, COVID-19 will affect industry. Two longtime aerospace experts from consultancy Roland Berger, Manfred Hader and Robert Thomson, join Aviation Week senior business editor Michael Bruno on Check 6 to discuss what may occur.

As the airframers go, so goes the aircraft engine industry. 

The Pentagon predicts there will be a three-month slowdown for major defense acquisition programs because of impacts related to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The FAA plans to require Boeing 737 MAX operators to replace a poorly designed engine-access door component with an updated version.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting May 27 for a crewed test flight of the Dragon 2 spacecraft to the International Space Station, the first human orbital space launch from the U.S. since the end of the shuttle program in 2011.

Deemed to be an essential service, defense manufacturing avoids pandemic shutdowns.