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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.

Buy a shot into space with Blue Origin and get priority on your next ride or on one in its planned orbital space capsule.

What could be more inspiring at this year’s AirVenture than Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin reusable rocket and crew capsule, and Friday evening’s formal reunion of eight lunar mission Apollo astronauts, some 50 years after the tragic launch accident to Apollo 1 at the very beginning of the program.

NASA has issued a request for information for in-space electric propulsion concepts which could potentially power the agency’s proposed Deep Space Gateway.