AIR AND SPACE

NASA's Office of the Inspector General warned in a May report that "attempts to steal critical information are increasing in both complexity and severity," with phishing attempts against NASA doubling and malware attacks increasing "exponentially" during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The aerospace company kicked off the three-phase online auction in early May, offering one seat on the first flight of its New Shepard spacecraft which has already had over a dozen successful flights to and from space, according to Blue Origin.

Maybe aliens like cookies too.

Sens. Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders are speaking out against a $10 billion corporate “bailout” to Blue Origin, a space flight company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.

The race is on to democratize the rocket-launch industry, and Phantom Space Corp., a roughly two-year-old startup, continued its warp-speed flight toward that goal Tuesday, announcing the acquisition of StratSpace, a major U.S. aerospace firm.

Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic announced Thursday morning that the next rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo "Unity" is targeted for Saturday.

The rocket is carrying the Department of Defense's fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO) missile warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center.

NASA's KiNet-X mission is designed to study how energy and momentum are transported between different regions of space that are magnetically connected. 

A Space Force commander was reportedly relieved from his post for making comments denouncing Marxist ideology in the military.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk had “friendly” meetings discussing space exploration before a rivalry formed.

Dr. Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who went from developing Nazi weapons to helping get NASA off the ground for the U.S., wrote a novel in the years after World War II speculating about life on Mars – and how human society there would be led by “Elon.”

Virgin Orbit, the sister company of Virgin Galactic, is gearing up for its next space launch in June when it will put six satellites in orbit.

Sixty years to the day that NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space aboard the Freedom 7 rocket, U.S. business leaders are continuing to help the country make major strides in space exploration.

Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin on Wednesday announced the date that it will fly its first crew of astronauts into space.

Boeing and GDC Technics are locked in a legal battle over the termination of a contract related to the Air Force One production.

Astronauts on SpaceX's Crew-1 Dragon capsule are now scheduled to return to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday before 3 a.m. EST.

Blue Origin announced Thursday that it would soon begin to sell tickets for a chance to ride on the reusable suborbital rocket New Shepard.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO teased Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Monday night after it was reported that Bezos’ Blue Origin planned to contest a NASA award recently given to SpaceX.

According to NASA, Ingenuity took off at 1:31 a.m. eastern time, or 12:33 p.m. local Mars time, rising 16 feet (5 meters) off the ground, the same altitude as its previous flight. The helicopter then zipped downrange 164 feet (50 meters), almost half the length of a football field, reaching a top speed of 6.6 feet per second (2 meters per second).

The business of flying drones is about the change.