Thomas Redgate was born in 1926 in the Boston neighborhood of Brighton, Mass. At age 17, he left high school…
Ernest C. Cheatham Jr. was born in July 1929, in Long Beach, Calif. After graduating high school in 1947, he…
Col. Joseph William Kittinger Jr. is a decorated Air Force Veteran whose service career spanned 29 years, during which he…
Winners of the first NASA TechLeap Prize launched their technologies this summer on high-altitude balloon flights to test them at stratospheric heights….
Pratt & Whitney announced Aug. 31, 2022, that it has delivered the 1,000th F135 production engine for the 5th Generation F-35…
New forms of highly automated Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) aircraft, such as electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles, could transform…
OSHKOSH, Wisc. — Anywhere you travel where the history of aviation looms large, you will fly right into the legacy…
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has awarded Boeing the Ground-based Midcourse Defense System Integration, Test and Readiness contract. Boeing has supported the…
Navy Machinist Charles H. Willey never expected to have to save the lives of his crewmates during a peacetime…
In the face of the pacing challenge from China and threats from Russia, Iran, North Korea and extremist groups, the…
NASA and Axiom Space have signed a mission order for the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station to take…
LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — National Guard members from Hawaii, California and Nevada recently conducted water rescue training in Lake Tahoe…
Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Mo., in July 1907. The arrival of Halley’s Comet in 1910 sparked his…
