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Investing in Space: NASA's months of reckoning
A group of 360 current and former employees penned a letter rebuking "rapid and wasteful changes" across staffing, mission ...
NASA and the End of American Ambition
Back in 1949, before he emerged as the godfather of the American space program, he spilled his fantasies onto the page, in a ...
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Hubble at 35: The Space Telescope's 10 Coolest Achievements
On April 24, 1990, NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.Since then, the telescope—a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency ...
Trump's NASA cuts will 'compromise human safety,' hundreds of employees say in letter
NASA scientists say pending cuts to the space agency could compromise mission safety and pave the way for another tragedy ...
Scientists Warn NASA Cuts Could Jeopardize Safety, Innovation in Open Letter
A group of scientists and NASA employees, current and former, have issued a public plea to interim NASA Administrator Sean ...
'Catastrophic impacts': NASA workers protest Trump's proposed budget cuts and policies in letter
NASA faces a proposed $6 billion agency-wide funding cut by the Trump administration, including a 47% reduction of science ...
NASA repairs Juno space probe camera from 600 million kilometers away
Jupiter and Earth were near their closest all year, but it still took over half an hour for a signal to go from Earth to the ...
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New Neil Armstrong Prize to honor achievements in space
Purdue University has established the international award to recognize "space discovery, innovation and human achievement." ...
No longer in the running to head NASA, Jared Isaacman turns focus to private space missions
Jared Isaacman may no longer have a shot at leading NASA, but that doesn't mean the billionaire and private astronaut is done ...