Decatur

The Tennessee Valley Authority is marking 50 years in service of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant located in Athens. On August 1, 1974, Browns Ferry Unit 1 began commercial operation. It's TVA’s largest generating asset and the third-largest nuclear power producer in the United States.

One of the State’s highest-flying festivals is coming to Decatur on Memorial Day weekend.

Mission managers are still troubleshooting a helium leak on NASA’s new gumdrop shaped space capsule called Starliner. The vehicle, on top of an Alabama built Atlas-V rocket, will now launch no earlier than May 25th.

NASA, Boeing, and a rocket builder in Alabama are facing another delay in the liftoff of a new kind of spacecraft. Engineers found a helium leak on part of the Starliner capsule.

Red Lobster says it is closing nearly 50 of its restaurants in the U.S. The chain says that includes two in Alabama.

Two NASA astronauts may have to wait ten days before blasting off aboard a rocket built in Decatur. NASA and Boeing say they’re are rolling the Atlas five carrying the new Starliner space capsule off the launch pad for repairs. A faulty valve prompted launch managers to cancel Monday night’s liftoff. The part will need to be replaced.

Two veterans from NASA’s space shuttle program are within hours from a historic blastoff involving a rocket built in Alabama. The Atlas five is set to carry a new space capsule called Starliner.

NASA is counting down the hours before Monday night’s planned liftoff of an Atlas-V rocket, built in Alabama. The launch vehicle is carrying Boeing’s new Starliner space capsule with two astronauts on board.

An Atlas-V rocket, built at the United Launch Alliance factory in Decatur, is on the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Florida’s Atlantic coast. Its job is to carry two astronauts aboard the new Boeing Starliner spacecraft to orbit. A successful mission will add astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore to an elite group of people to have flown on three types of space vehicles.

NASA is preparing for a planned May launch of an Atlas-V rocket, built in Alabama. The booster is set to carry the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner space capsule to the International Space Station. Once the vehicle docks with the orbiting outpost, there will be a meeting of two “penguins."