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Space agency provides updates on nine of its commercial partners developing the destinations and technology that will maintain a human presence on orbit beyond this decade.

Space agency’s launch provider of choice has been called upon to handle yet another critical mission.

Space station crew members chow down on smoked turkey, shrimp cocktail, candied yams, and other goodies to ring in the holiday from orbit.

Within the next decade, the agency believes its commercial partners can develop vehicles to land a lunar rover and habitat on the moon.

Manufacturer demonstrates its R550 Sprayhawk, an automated helicopter built from the Robinson R44 airframe, at the NAAA’s Ag Aviation Expo in Fort Worth.

SpaceX aims to increase the number of authorized Starship launches at its Starbase launch pad in Texas from five to 25 per year.

Improved sim software allows the latest iteration of the game, released Tuesday, to add a variety of aircraft not yet on the market.

Starship reignites one of its six Raptor engines on orbit for the first time, demonstrating a capability that will come into play during future missions.

It would mark the company’s ninth human spaceflight with its New Shepard rocket, which has flown 43 paying customers and guests to the edge of space.

New Zealand manufacturer Dawn Aerospace achieves supersonic flight with its Mk-II Aurora, which is the first civil aircraft in decades to achieve the feat.