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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.

Readers write about the Boeing 757 and Airbus A321XLR, Aviation Week’s Space Tech Challenge Awards, the Check 6 podcast on GCAP and NASA’s future under Jared Isaacman.

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

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.

As it surges ahead with ambitious objectives and constrained budgets, NASA faces five top challenges, a new report from the Office of Inspector General says.

NASA’s second Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket, topped with an Orion deep-space capsule, was rolled out to its Kennedy Space Center launchpad on Jan. 17.

NASA’s Crew-11 Dragon International Space Station crewmembers have returned to the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The U.S. Senate on Jan. 15 joined the House of Representatives in passing a fiscal 2026 budget for NASA that nearly matches its current spending levels.

An unspecified but nonemergency concern has prompted an early end to the SpaceX Crew-11 mission.

Mitsubishi Corp. has increased its investment in the Starlab Space commercial space station joint venture.

NASA head Isaacman met with SpaceX and Blue Origin officials to get a better sense of how to speed up the timelines around efforts to return to the Moon.

NASA completed the early return of International Space Station astronauts when the SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon Endeavour capsule splashed down Jan. 15 in the Pacific Ocean off the San Diego coast.