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NASA said it is standing down from a planned Jan. 31 wet dress rehearsal of its second Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.

The slotted transonic airfoil—studied by NASA is the 1960s to delay drag rise and enable higher cruise speeds—will debut on Otto’s Phantom 3500 business jet.

A small transonic wing section, tucked under a NASA F-15B for flight testing, could pave the way for more efficient next-generation airliner wing designs.

Blue Origin’s first lunar lander is en route to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for thermal vacuum testing ahead of launch later this year.

NASA plans to move up the four-person SpaceX Crew-12 Dragon mission to the International Space Station.

The human spaceflight community becomes sensitive this time of year, with three memorial dates on the calendar for NASA missions that ended in disasters.

Space maneuvers to avoid collisions are becoming more frequent.

NASA is assembling an anomaly review board to investigate its loss of contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft.

NASA is joining a White House initiative to recruit tech-savvy individuals to spend two years as government employees.

NASA says the two-person flight crew of a vintage WB-57F high altitude research aircraft were unharmed after the aircraft made a gear-up landing.

Oman has become the 61st signatory of the Artemis Accords, a set of nonbinding international space agreements.

NASA says it is re-targeting the practice launch countdown for its Artemis II lunar flyby mission to no sooner than Jan. 31, two days earlier than planned.

P&WC advances hybrid propulsion; GE’s hybrid Passport success; Europe’s Clean Aviation launches ultraefficient regional projects; UAE orders uncrewed VTOLs.

In response to a NASA inspector general’s audit, agency leadership has agreed to accelerate implementation of changes to its mission support services.

Ground tests of a modified Passport business jet engine in hybrid-electric mode mark a key step toward development of a future single-aisle propulsion system.

NASA's Artemis II astronauts entered medical quarantine at the Johnson Space Center Jan. 23 ahead of a potential Feb. 6 launch.

An RS-25 engine has passed a follow-up hot fire test, clearing it for installation on the NASA Artemis IV mission’s Space Launch System (SLS).

NASA has named eight U.S. companies that are eligible to bid for the development of the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter.

Congress pushes back on Trump’s plan to cut NASA spending.

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

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NASA is aiming to send a crew of four into deep space for the first time since 1972.

NASA has selected three science mission payloads for launch by Commercial Lunar Payload Services providers to study the Moon and galactic cosmic rays.

NASA is poised to begin flight tests of a representative stub wing section that is aimed at dramatically enhancing the drag-reducing benefits of natural laminar flow (NLF) in next-generation, swept wing airliners.

Vast is delaying launch of its Haven-1 demonstration space station from May to the first quarter of 2027, the company said Jan. 20.