The USAF is standing up a gateway comm system at an operational base to enable certain front-line fighters, including the F-35A, to transmit data to other aircraft types without compromising its stealth signature.
A directive that accelerates NASA’s plans to return to the Moon’s surface with humans from 2024-2028 has also created an urgency that it return first with rovers.
From the archives: In 1962, pioneering astronaut and former U.S. Sen. John Glenn wrote a pilot report for Aviation Week after his historic and harrowing flight in Mercury’s Friendship 7.
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