One of 12 U.S. men and women selected in 2017 from a record 18,354 applicants to train as a NASA astronaut candidate is leaving the agency for personal reasons.
Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Complex 39A has been outfitted with a sleek steel-and- aluminum walkway to allow the boarding of SpaceX Dragon capsules.
The Senate has passed an $857 billion “minibus” package that includes $675 billion in defense funding for fiscal 2019 and signals Congress may avoid a government shutdown this fall.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have begun building a new ground-to-ground missile unit to protect Israeli civilians from rocket and artillery attacks.
India’s defense ministry has cleared a proposal from the navy to buy 111 Naval Utility Helicopters at a cost of more than 210 billion rupees ($3 billion).
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft has begun the final approach phase of its lengthy, $1 billion mission to return a sample from the 1,600-ft.-long asteroid Bennu.
United Rotorcraft is to convert two ex-U.S. Army HH-60L Black Hawks into Firehawk firefighting helos for the Ventura County Fire Department in California.
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The chief of the Swedish Air Force is urging the government to consider doubling the size of the future Gripen NG fleet to bolster the country’s air defenses.
The Senate has passed an $857 billion minibus package that includes $675 billion in defense funding for fiscal 2019 and signals Congress may avoid a shutdown.
