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NASA completed a full-duration dress rehearsal for its upcoming Artemis II flight test, which is expected to send four astronauts on a 10-day mission around the Moon.

The space agency is taking an Apollo-style integrated approach to its Artemis campaign.

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

NASA has reclassified Boeing’s 2024 CST-Starliner Crew Flight Test as a Category A Mishap and cited agency leadership failings.

The commercial space stations that NASA plans to establish as successors to the ISS may play a crucial role in simulating a human mission to Mars.

NASA on Feb. 19 was in the final day of a planned 49 hr., 50 min. practice countdown for the launch of the Artemis II flight test.

After 20 years of development, NASA’s Orion spacecraft will host astronauts for the first time on a flight test around the Moon.

A look at the four astronauts NASA is preparing to send around the Moon.

A Senate panel has again passed the Orbital Sustainability Act, which authorizes $150 million in 2026-2030 to remediate Earth orbital debris.

SkyDrive has signed a preorder agreement with 7A Drones for 10 SD-05 air taxis for emergency transportation of patients and medical staff in Taiwan.

Countdown clocks for a second wet dress rehearsal for NASA’s Artemis II mission are expected to begin ticking at 6:40 p.m. EST Feb. 17.

NASA’s Crew-12 mission has docked to the U.S. segment of the ISS, returning the orbital lab’s fulltime population to seven for the first time since Jan. 14.

Axiom Space has announced $350 million in investments to develop a commercial successor to the International Space Station and a new generation of spacesuits.

A multinational, four-member replacement team lifted off onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Feb. 13 to begin a 34-hr. ride to the International Space Station.

Flight tests of an experimental low-drag laminar flow stub wing section are underway at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.

NASA on Feb. 12 selected Long Beach, California-based Vast to conduct its first private astronaut mission aboard the International Space Station.

The Artemis II launch team prepared on Feb. 12 to test if repairs to stem a hydrogen leak that stopped a launch dress rehearsal nine days ago were successful.

NASA’s new leader discusses the agency’s path forward. Key priorities include lunar exploration, Mars missions and advancing the orbital economy.

NASA is under new leadership with Jared Isaacman. Watch or listen as he answers questions from Aviation Week's Irene Klotz after eight weeks on the job in this special episode.

There are lots of numbers bandied about regarding NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission.

NASA has awarded Voyager Technologies a $24.5 million contract to provide full-service mission management services to the International Space Station.

NASA and SpaceX on Feb. 10 once again pushed back the launch of the four-person Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station due to weather conditions.

Commercial space startup Momentus and NASA will partner on an in-space servicing mission in low Earth orbit.

NASA is standing down from a planned Feb. 11 launch of the SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the ISS due to expected weather conditions, the agency said Feb. 9.

The ISS National Lab says fiscal 2025 was a landmark year for scientific research and technology development aboard the NASA-led orbital laboratory.