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The flight-test campaign marked beginning of an effort to integrate various components of automation into an aircraft to build up to true end-to-end autonomy.

Wakata has logged 505 days in space over five missions on the NASA space shuttle, Russian Soyuz, SpaceX Crew Dragon and International Space Station.

Touchdown of the descent module on the steppes of Kazakhstan occurred at 3:17 a.m. EDT, or 12:17 p.m. local time, about 90 mi. southeast of Dzhezkazgan.

Guy Norris talks with CEO Tom Vice about the spinoff-turned-prime’s growth plans as its space defense business surges and its spaceplane prepares for flight.

While NASA mulls plans to bring the samples to Earth, the collection is growing.

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

NASA is continuing its efforts to partner with the U.S. commercial space sector while striving to establish a human presence at the Moon.

The April 8 total solar eclipse will be the last visible from the contiguous U.S. until 2044.

Boeing’s new leadership in Commercial Airplanes and at the top are likely just the beginning of major changes at the manufacturing giant.

The company is confident a spate of hardware issues and oversights are behind it.

The multiyear Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services contract agreements have a combined maximum potential value of $4.6 billion over 15 years.

NASA and Boeing have retargeted the planned launch date for the Starliner's crew flight test from May 1 to no earlier than May 6.

Continuing an annual tradition dating back to 1957, Aviation Week Network editors honored a wide variety of industry accomplishments.

The rebirth of faster-than-sound civil transport remains a pipedream to many, but it is making material headway in Southern California.

In a wide-ranging interview, Culp talks about the new company’s future and says he has no interest in taking his turnaround skills to Boeing.

The five-year Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract III takes effect June 1.

With Crewed Flight Test certification, Starliner will be in line for six missions to launch astronauts and return them from the ISS.

NASA has selected the first three science instruments for deployment on the Moon’s south pole as part of Artemis III.

Demonstrator test program targets development of safety culture and expertise in advance of Boom’s Overture airliner effort.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has announced appointments to a pair of space committees.

Blended wing body developer JetZero has received an FAA airworthiness certificate for its 12.5% scaled demo, clearing the uncrewed twin-engine aircraft.

Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 crew transport successfully docked with the International Space Station on March 25.

Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 is carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight tourist Marina Vasilevskaya.

The Cargo Dragon freighter is to remain docked for about five weeks before departing for a return to Earth with time-sensitive research.

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