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NASA veterans say political pressure and slashed funding are destroying mankind's ability to go on future missions
In a letter to NASA's interim chief, Sean Duffy, the group slammed "wasteful changes" that undermine NASA's core mission.
NASA loses another senior official as tension about the agency's future grows
The departures are playing out as NASA and other government agencies contend with significant cuts to funding and personnel.
On Apollo 11 lunar landing anniversary, we look at future missions to the moon
July 20th is Moon Day, Space Exploration Day and the anniversary of the first Apollo 11 moonwalk. Here’s a look at the Apollo ...
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Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' pushes for crewed moon missions, but proposed budget cuts leave NASA science behind
The recent United States government's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that was recently signed into law has good news for the ...
NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission gears up for space station research
A host of scientific investigations await the crew of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission during their long-duration expedition ...
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Dust devils on Mars leave 'fingerprints' that can guide future Red Planet missions
"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...
Blue Origin lines up NASA's Mars-bound mission for next New Glenn launch
Blue Origin's first launch of its New Glenn rocket was supposed to send up a pair of Mars-bound satellites for NASA, but ...
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Breakthrough cryocooler makes crewed Mars missions possible
NASA has tested a kind of super-fridge that may hold the key to any future crewed mission to Mars. Without the new cryogenic ...
Read the NASA ‘Voyager Declaration’ Letter of Dissent
Hundreds of current and ex-employees of NASA signed a formal dissent letter protesting the Trump administration’s proposed ...
Trump's defunding of NASA would be catastrophic
Even with many lawmakers in favor of maintaining NASA's budget, a flat budget is still a funding cut when accounting for ...
NASA-ISRO $1.5 billion joint satellite NISAR set for launch on July 30: What is its mission and why is ISRO spending so much on it
NASA and ISRO's joint NISAR mission, costing $1.5 billion, is set to launch on July 30, 2025, from Sriharikota. This Earth observation satellite, equi ...