NASA Astronaut Recruitment Faces Trump’s Moves Against D.E.I.
The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for decades, even during the first Trump ...
Scientists find life-friendly molecules in NASA’s asteroid samples
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
Push to move NASA HQ to Florida still the buzz among space community
The idea floated earlier this month by Gov. Ron DeSantis that NASA might consider moving its headquarters from Washington to ...
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
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Elon Musk Suggests SpaceX Will Accelerate Return of NASA Astronauts
NASA said it would do that “as soon as practical.” By Kenneth Chang In a post on X on Tuesday evening, Elon Musk said President Trump had asked his rocket company SpaceX to bring home “as ...
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Trump tasks Elon Musk, SpaceX to bring stranded NASA astronauts back after ‘Biden administration left them there so long”
NASA/AFP via Getty Images The two NASA pilots reached the International Space Station via a Starliner – Boeing’s first flight into space – but problems with the capsule quickly developed ...
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Elon Musk says SpaceX will rescue two ‘stranded’ astronauts. Here’s why that is confusing
Hopefully, all will be safe. Good luck Elon!!!” When asked for comment about the ambiguous declarations from Musk and Trump, NASA replied that it is “expeditiously working to safely return the ...
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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Glavin, senior scientist for samples return at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “This is all very exciting because it suggests that asteroids like Bennu once acted ...
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Space pictures! See our space image of the day
Monday, January 27, 2025: Both NASA and Lockheed Martin recently released photos of the X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet conducting tests of its afterburner, a system that injects extra fuel into the ...