This week's top aerospace and defense stories, including Norway's first F-35A and Boeing's bulk Chinese aircraft order.

New imagery of Pluto by the New Horizons probe includes some spectacular shots collected about 15 min. after closest approach.

U.S. President John F. Kennedy is well known for the 1961 speech to Congress in which he made the Apollo program a national goal.

"We never forget how serious the physics is," Rex Walheim, who leads the exploration branch of NASA's astronaut office, told his Hollywood guests. "We've lost friends in the business."

Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral will be the site of a clean-sheet facility for launching Blue Origin’s planned orbital launch vehicle and testing its methane-fueled BE-4 rocket engine.

"That's it guys," Soyuz commander Gennady Padalka told crewmates moments before touchdown. "You can relax now."

This week's top aerospace and defense news you don't want to miss, from Italy's first F-35 flight to SpaceX's new Falcon Heavy launch date.

New imagery from NASA's Dawn mission spacecraft reveals the ever increasing mystique of the dwarf planet Ceres and its gleaming white spots.