Space

Air Force scraps for missile-warning satellite funding; Fire Scout begins operations; Philippines to get Black Hawks in 2020; Germans use A400M for refueling.

Post-Apollo ‘technical consolidation’ is still underway, but Mars looms as the next goal, says Apollo 11 pilot Michael Collins.

A look at the rockets that have taken people above the atmosphere and the space stations that have housed them in orbit.

Global space industry never stronger, but deep-space human travel still out of reach.

Engineers inspired by Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk are devising ways to help humans survive in the future.

NASA issues price list and guidelines for station services in hopes of luring new businesses.

Astronaut Michael Collins speaks with Aviation Week Space Editor Irene Klotz about the meaning of his time on the Moon, his thoughts on the current space program, what he would like to see transpire 50 years from now and more.

Leaders such as President John F. Kennedy inspire by pointing out that humans push for exploration not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine discusses how the U.S. can reach the Moon and Mars and the need for a more international mindset when it comes to environmental concerns.

Since the mid-2000s, the Kremlin has rekindled the Soviet-era idea of putting humans on the lunar surface—a goal that is still beyond reach.

For those watching NASA and private industry wrestle with plans to revisit the Moon, the questions remain: Can we do it again, and why haven’t we?

A lot has changed in the U.S. space industry since the Apollo program 50 years ago, but not everything has.

A fourth phase has been added to the China Lunar Exploration Program, to survey polar sites for a 2030s research station.

The U.S. needs to unite around space exploration to achieve a goal worthy of being compared to the Apollo mission.

Today’s students will take humanity to the Moon and beyond, and we need to inspire them to succeed.

India plans to launch its second Moon mission this month and place humans in Earth orbit by the end of 2021.

Fifty years later, solar system science still shaped by results from Apollo missions.

A return to the lunar surface may require the work of multiple nations and companies with competing interests.

The lessons from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, shuttle and ISS wardrobes live on as NASA readies garments for Orion crews and astronauts assigned to low-Earth-orbit activities. And now NASA will have to outfit astronauts for Artemis.

NASA is prepared for a critical, heavily instrumented July 2 flight test of its automated Orion capsule Launch Abort System (LAS).

Boeing courts Cora; LeoLabs aids space regulator; H55’s electric trainer; Jet fuel from the Sun; Drone parachutes get nod; Looking into fighter pilot brains.

During its 2.5-year primary mission, the Dragonfly rotorcraft/lander will take off and fly, perhaps dozens of times, to cover a range of 100 to 120 mi. of Titan's surface.

While a SpaceX-led probe into the loss of an unoccupied Crew Dragon test capsule is still underway, NASA chief Jim Bridenstine remains confident astronauts will launch this year.

The stunning merger plan reinforces worries that both defense spending and the commercial aircraft order boom have peaked.

From lone GEO satellites to large LEO constellations, more companies see an emerging need for in-space robotic servicing.