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U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. (ret.) Thomas Stafford, who commanded NASA’s May 1969 Apollo 10 mission to the Moon and led the Apollo crew that participated in a historic linkup with Soviet cosmonauts, has died.

The launch will be part of Ariane 6’s development and remain under the ESA’s responsibility.

NASA’s Johnson Space Center is positioned to receive the largest share of NASA’s $25.384 billion funding request for 2025.

The Varied AAM Noise and Geographic Area Response Difference (Vangard) test will use NASA’s recently developed Remote Psychoacoustic Test Platform.

Fuel systems for hydrogen; 3D printing on the Moon; LH2 tank breakthrough; the cost of avoiding contrails; and Velis Electro approved for training.

NASA must establish a more integrated, top-down management approach to its supercomputing assets, an agency IG report says.

Stratasys plans to test two types of 3D-printed material on an upcoming lunar lander mission.

NASA’s Lucy probe to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids encountered a surprise last November as it flew by the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh.

Last living Apollo 17 crewmember is guiding off-world prospecting.

The parachute-assisted splashdown of the four fliers occurred at 5:47 a.m. EDT, following atmospheric re-entry in the skies over the U.S. midwest and southeast.

For decades, aircraft manufacturers have preferred derivatives over all-new aircraft. That approach appears to be ending.

The White House on March 11 unveiled a $25.4 billion spending plan for NASA in fiscal 2025.

SpaceX's Crew-7 Dragon spacecraft departed the ISS with a four-person crew on March 11 for a parachute-assisted splashdown off the Florida peninsula.

Launch of the SpaceX Cargo Dragon with a more than 6,000-lb. payload from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is planned for no earlier than mid-March.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The astronauts graduated from a two-year training period in a ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on March 5.

The flight demonstration is one of six with NASA backing.

The project was eclipsed by private spacecraft refueling efforts.

The tests will establish the performance of the unmodified aircraft before the start of the hybrid-electric conversion effort.

NASA raised the number of its active duty astronauts eligible for missions from 38 to 48 on March 5 with the graduation of its 2021 class of 10 candidates.

SpaceX completed a pair of overlapping Falcon 9 missions on March 4.

Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut arrived at the ISS early March 5 with the autonomous docking of the SpaceX Crew-8 Dragon Endeavour capsule.

A forthcoming launch will test Lockheed Martin Space’s concept for advancing internet-like communications in orbit for military users.

NASA’s Planetary Science Division is hopeful it can craft a new operating plan for the Mars Sample Return mission by July.

A compromise appropriations bill for fiscal 2024 keeps most funding for NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration initiative intact.