The International Space Station Era Is Ending – Here’s What NASA Has Planned Next
NASA has outlined its strategic goals for low Earth orbit, aiming to enhance microgravity research, foster international ...
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NASA wants a 'Super-Hubble' space telescope to search for life on alien worlds
"The question 'Are we alone?' is one of the most significant questions, not just in the history of science, but in the history of humanity." NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — When a boy named Elliott found ...
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NASA's stuck astronaut steps out for a spacewalk after seven months in orbit
One of the two NASA astronauts stuck in space got a much-welcome change of scenery when she stepped out for her first spacewalk after seven months in orbit. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have ...
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NASA will announce update to Mars sample return plans today. Here's how to listen in
NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program ... Another spacecraft, provided by the European Space Agency, would then collect the sample capsule for the trip to Earth. Breaking space news ...
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Proposed NASA Chief Jared Isaacman Sees Millions Of Spacefarers Ahead
Billionaire aeronaut Jared Isaacman, one of the world’s great space philanthropists and now set to head NASA, says he envisions millions of space sojourners lifting off from Planet Earth in ...
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Elon Musk Calls Out NASA’s Moon Ambitions: ‘We’re Going Straight to Mars’
He was also partly responsible for the expected nomination of private astronaut Jared Isaacman to become the next administrator of NASA. Although Musk is not directing US space policy, he ...
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Trump is pondering a shake-up of NASA and its programs
The first major space decision undertaken by the incoming second Donald Trump administration was to pick billionaire entrepreneur and private space traveler Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator.
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On this date: Nixon directs NASA to build space shuttle program
On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle program. “I have decided today that the United States should proceed at ...
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Space Billionaires Count Down To Their Rocket Race To The Moon
And while Blue Origin and SpaceX vie with each other to reach the Moon, they will also be competing, in a sense, with NASA and its traditionally designed and built, and extremely costly ...
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NASA probe beams home 1st detailed update after record-breaking flyby of sun: "Data scientists have awaited for decades"
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its closest approach to the sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came ...
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Big Rockets, a Big Telescope and Big Changes in Space Await in 2025
Here are some key events to look forward to in space and astronomy in the year ahead. By Michael Roston and Katrina Miller Our species called this latest 366-day journey around the sun “2024 ...