SpaceX mission to bring stranded NASA astronauts home finally leaves the ground
A decision to bring Wilmore and Williams home early aboard the Crew 9 ship ahead of Crew 10’s arrival would have left NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who flew to the ISS with a Russian crew last September, ...
SpaceX launches a new crew to the space station to replace NASA’s stuck astronauts
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts launched to the International Space Station on ...
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NASA terminates chief scientist role, closes policy office
March 10 (Reuters) - NASA is eliminating its chief scientist role and closing down an office that studies policy matters on space and technology, in a round of layoffs affecting 23 employees ...
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Launch of NASA's new cutting-edge telescope delayed
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A highly-anticipated NASA mission, which the organization hopes will discover information about how the universe originated, was delayed. NASA's SPHEREx telescope was built to ...
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NASA: Hundreds of employees may get deferred resignation offers; further job loss details unknown
Hundreds of NASA employees — about 5% of the workforce — signed up for President Donald Trump's deferred resignation offer earlier this month, the space agency said Wednesday afternoon.
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Weather delays launch of NASA’s newest space telescope set to search for life’s key ingredients
NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...
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Why NASA Is Trying to Go Back to the Moon
Reporting on missions to the moon and beyond. NASA is aiming to send astronauts back to the moon, because that is what President Trump set as the destination of the agency’s human spaceflight ...
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NASA embraced diversity. Trump’s DEI purge is hitting space scientists hard
In the corridors of NASA buildings across the United States, Pride flags and pictures celebrating women in science are being taken down. Scientists are adding space-mission stickers to their ...
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Under Trump, NASA meetings are on hold and missions are up in the air
NASA is a methodical institution that plans its missions years or even decades in advance, enjoys a famously loyal workforce and carries out its tasks with the kind of precision required to hurl ...
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NASA: 1.6% chance newly discovered asteroid will impact Earth in 2032
Feb. 15 (UPI) --NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency are ...
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NASA nominee previews his vision for the agency: Mars, hard work, inspiration
The likely next leader of NASA, private astronaut and pilot Jared Isaacman, has kept a low profile since the announcement last year that he was President Donald Trump's choice to lead the space ...