Company delays the flight by a week and is expected to announce a replacement for SNL comedian soon.

But at the end of the year, the Commercial Space Astronaut Wings program is ending.

Entertainer, activist, and World War II spy Josephine Baker made history this week when she became the first Black woman to be honored at the Pantheon monument in France.  Born in 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, Baker rose to fame in the 1930s as a singer and dancer and became a symbol of the Jazz […]

Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, and “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan are heading to space next month.

Archer Aviation (NYSE:ACHR) on Thursday delivered its first quarterly earnings report since going public two months ago, reporting a $177 million net loss, but saying it remains on track to fly its innovative new aircraft prototype by next month. The company attributed the loss to operating expenses, plus interest payments, which included the cost of […]

ermany-based Volocopter announced Thursday the “first ever crewed, public test flight of a fully electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) air taxi in South Korea.”

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has lost its fight against NASA over a lunar lander contract the space agency awarded to Elon Musk’s SpaceX earlier this year. In a ruling Thursday by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, federal judge Richard Hertling sided with NASA; details of the opinion will be released at a later time, […]

Boeing and Blue Origin announced plans Monday to develop a private space station that would operate as a private “mixed-use business park.

Reliable Robotics, a California-based autonomous aircraft startup, has raised $100 million in Series C funding as it seeks to launch commercial cargo operations in hard-to-reach areas. The funding round was led by tech investor Coatue Management, whose investments include mobile banking app Chime. Coatue was joined by other investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners Eclipse Ventures Teamworthy […]

HT Aero, an urban air mobility (UAM) company and affiliate of China-based electric car maker XPeng, has raised $500 million in Series A funding as it seeks to stake its claim in the rapidly growing UAM industry. The company says the money will help fund research and development as it works to get what it […]