NASA faces uncertain future as SpaceX plans to retire Falcon 9, Dragon

As SpaceX talks of retiring Falcon 9 and Dragon with a push for Starship, access to low Earth orbit could become difficult.

As NASA takes back jobs, contractor Amentum to lay off 70 at Kennedy Space Center

Most of the positions were listed as engineers, but also included analysts, planners and system administrators.

A new NASA mission plan could capture light no space telescope now sees

NASA will move ahead with a new space telescope to see the cold, dusty universe far more sharply than any before it, chasing ...

How NASA Saved Boeing's Space Program With a New Contract and $359 Million

If SpaceX retires the Crew Dragon, NASA may have no choice but to use Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft again.

With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time

The first in a new class of space telescopes is on track to reach the launch pad in the early 2030s, NASA announced this week ...
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NASA’s SunRISE Mission Targets No Earlier Than Mid-2027 Launch

NASA’s SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) mission will launch no earlier than mid-2027. The heliophysics ...

NASA sent 10 million cinnamon basil seeds into orbit aboard Endeavour in 2007; the project brought space-flown seeds into classrooms and helped nearly 1 million students test ...

But in 2007, millions of them became part of an experiment that linked a Space Shuttle mission, classrooms across the US and a much bigger question: could humans one day grow plants on the Moon?On ...
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NASA’s Swift nears science cutoff after robotic rescue spacecraft failed

NASA’s Swift space telescope is collecting astronomical data again, but that productive return carries a cost: the observatory is descending more rapidly toward an altitude where science operations ...