NASA’s most ambitious space science endeavors are an essential part of maintaining U.S. leadership in space exploration, an assessment says.

SpaceX successfully deployed the long-delayed FormoSat-5 remote sensing satellite into low Earth orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket on Aug. 24.

Until his selection as a NASA astronaut candidate in June, U.S. Navy Lt. Cdr. Matthew Dominick was serving as department head for Strike Fighter Squadron 115 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the waters off the coast of the Korean peninsula.

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A pair of NASA jets soared from Houston early Aug. 21 and headed toward Kansas City, Missouri, for a high-altitude observation campaign focused on a rare total solar eclipse.

Russia staked claim to the first Earth-orbiting 3D-printed small satellite Aug. 17 following deployment of the Tomsk TPU-120 by cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin outside the International Space Station.

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo “Unity” is closing in on the start of rocket-powered flight tests after completing a gliding sortie.

Virgin Orbit’s modified Boeing 747-400 carrier aircraft, Cosmic Girl, is being readied for a series of ground and flight tests in the build-up towards captive-carry evaluations of the company’s LauncherOne small satellite launch vehicle.