Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan is implementing a series of congressionally mandated measures that effectively strip the U.S. Air Force of much of its space authority, and may develop a roadmap for establishing a separate military department for space activities....More
A squadron of A-10 Warthog touched down at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 19 to join the newest phase of the 16-year war against the Taliban....More
A UK ejection seat maker has pleaded guilty to breaches of health and safety rules over the inadvertent ejection of a member of the Red Arrows aerobatic team....More
The International Space Station's crucial arm received a much-anticipated upgrade during a Jan. 23 spacewalk by NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle....More
The Google-backed $30-million contest to fly and operate a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon before March 31 is ending without any contestants ever blasting off....More
Indonesia is considering the Eurofighter Typhoon and Lockheed Martin F-16V, industry sources say, with the Saab Gripen and Dassault Rafale also considered likely candidates....More
