U.S. back in human spaceflight business.

A crop of developmental projects are set to come to fruition over the next 12 months as new projects enter the design phase.

Skyborg protoype awards; MQ-25 flies with refueling store; Northrop sheds IT division; and new council for commercial space.

Here are some of the spaceflight milestones of 2020.

NASA has a busy year ahead in space-science missions, from low-cost cubesats to the multibillion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope.

“The pandemic didn’t change plans, it simply fast-tracked what was already happening,” says a space industry executive.

These luminaries are among the space movers and shakers to watch in 2021.

Winners include silhouettes of aircraft in early morning, firefighting aid missions and snorkeling while planespotting. The Photo Contest in a Surreal Year We knew this year would be a challenging one for the Aviation Week Photo Contest because so many events at which photographers shoot were canceled or postponed and travel was so restricted. In order to make the Photo Contest successful during the COVID-19 pandemic, we:      Accepted photos taken since 2000 so photographers could dig into their archives and offer great images that might not have been widely shared; Created a special category, The COVID-19 Challenge, for outstanding photojournalism that tells the story of the pandemic and its effect on the world’s airlines and aerospace industry.