NASA Collaborates with Local College to Boost Aerospace Training

Drake State Community and Technical College is enhancing its 15-year partnership with NASA’s High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware (HUNCH) program through significant upgrades to its advanced manufacturing lab. The ongoing collaboration provides students with hands-on experience working on actual aerospace components and opportunities to engage directly with NASA engineers and mentors. As […]

Huntsville’s Ranking Among Mid-Sized Metros: Revealed

The Rocket City maintains its position as a leading national destination for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals. The latest national report from CoworkingCafe ranks Huntsville as the fourth-best mid-sized U.S. metro area (with a population between 500,000 and 999,999), based on factors such as job availability, wage growth, affordability, and educational infrastructure. The […]

Navigating NASA: Small Businesses Gain Strategic Guidance from Marshall Experts

On Wednesday, June 25, the Catalyst Center for Business & Entrepreneurship hosted the city’s latest NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) event.  The agenda for the event included a welcome from Catalyst’s COO, Sandy Edwards; CEO Lisa Mays; and Don Carver, President of Cepeda Systems.  For the main portion of the event, staff members from […]

A Spark in the System: How a Few Students Are Changing the STEM Game

HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology’s Dr. Emily Gordon introduced the classroom to the bookends of STEM simultaneously. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, known by its acronym STEM, is the basis for the “Spark’’ cohort at HudsonAlpha. The nonprofit in Cummings Research Park sponsors ongoing educational projects. The Spark program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), […]

Federal Windfall or Fiscal Fog? Breaking Down the NASA Budget Shift

Huntsville is no stranger to federal twists and turns. From Saturn V to today’s Artemis missions, the city has long weathered Washington’s ups and downs while steadily expanding its aerospace, defense, and tech footprint. Now, as the Senate weighs amendments to the “Big Beautiful Bill” (H.R. 1), local business owners are rightly asking how Sen. Ted Cruz’s proposed spending […]

Alabama, Colorado continue to clash over final site for Space Command headquarters

As an ongoing political tug-of-war drags on between Alabama and Colorado to land the permanent Space Command headquarters, frustration grows among politicians from both states. The decision, with Dr. Troy E. Meink’s approval by the U.S. Senate three weeks ago as the new Secretary of the Air Force, is expected any day to either move […]

Blue Origin NS-32 Launch Celebrated in Huntsville

Those who have attended NASA rocket launches live at Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral tell of an inspiring experience. It wasn’t Florida, it wasn’t NASA and it wasn’t in-person, but the live showing of the Blue Origin NS-32 launch and landing in West Texas on a big screen at the U.S. Space & Rocket […]

Steel, Safety, and the Stakes of Progress: RNGD Celebrates Milestone Amid Rising OSHA Concerns

In a ceremony both celebratory and symbolic, RNGD contractors placed the final steel beam atop the Lewter District development on Tuesday, marking a key milestone in one of Huntsville’s most anticipated mixed-use projects. But as the beam was raised into the spring sky, the moment also underscored the broader conversation unfolding at the national level—about […]

Always Above: Space Force Takes Center Stage in Huntsville

While residents, business folks, politicians and assorted local authorities and civic leaders await anxiously for the federal government to declare the future home of the United States Space Command, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center is moving SPACECOM’S cousin, Space Force, into the spotlight. On a night where talk of SPACECOM took a back seat, […]

Behind Boeing’s Legal Turmoil: What It Means for Huntsville Employees

Boeing, a global leader in the aerospace industry, is currently grappling with several significant legal challenges that cast a shadow over its workforce, including employees in Huntsville, Alabama. These lawsuits—some ongoing and others settled—raise pressing questions about corporate governance, employee treatment, and the company’s financial priorities, particularly as it undergoes a major restructuring that has […]