Switzerland's Solar Impulse team overcame storms in the Midwest U.S. to fly the solar-powered prototype, HB-SIA, from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Lambert St. Louis International Airport on the third leg of its Across America 2013 cross-country flight.

Turkish strategy bolsters military capability, domestic industry

In what could be the biggest shake-up of U.S.-funded science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) promotional efforts since the dawn of the space age, the Pentagon, NASA and Department of Homeland Security are set to lose many of their STEM programs.

Robots scout space for human explorers

John C. Bierwirth, who led the Grumman Corp. in the 1970s and '80s through the development of the U.S. Navy's F-14 fighter and other military aircraft, NASA space shuttle and space station work, and various diversification efforts, died May 26 in a hospice on Long Island, N.Y., of congestive heart failure. He was 89.

The International Space Station (ISS) returned to a six-person crew May 28 with a second Soyuz “express” mission. The Russian capsule docked with the orbiting science lab at 10:10 p.m. EDT—less than 6 hr. after lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (shown)—delivering veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and the European Space Agency's (ESA) Luca Parmitano of Italy.

Congress may put a lunar landing back on the table

First towed tests set stage for approach-and-landing evaluation