NASA, space and deferred resignation
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About 3,870 employees have applied to depart NASA over two rounds through the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, the agency disclosed.
House and Senate appropriations bills would preserve SLS, Orion, and the Gateway. However, the House version of NASA's budget has an interesting paragraph directing NASA to explore cheaper, faster options for a new SLS upper stage.
A group of 360 current and former employees penned a letter rebuking "rapid and wasteful changes" across staffing, mission and budgetary cuts at NASA.
Senegal has become the 56th country to sign the Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration, NASA announced. The accords pledge care in space exploration.
At least 1 in 5 NASA staff — mostly top scientists, engineers and senior managers — plan to announce their departure by a Friday deadline, according to documents I obtained this week.
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The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.
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Space.com on MSNSpaceX launches NASA's TRACERS mission to protect Earth from space weather (video)One of these ride-along NASA efforts is the Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, which will demonstrate a new way of more efficiently placing remote-sensing (or rather, Earth-observing) instruments into orbit.
AS NASA moves towards looming budget cuts, the agency still lacks a permanent leader. Here's why the search for administrator is taking so long.
Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging from basic science to technology development.
Planned moon and Mars missions require timely communications and navigation systems, which is prompting NASA officials to request ideas via proposals from U.S. firms.
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Space.com on MSN'NASA is under attack.' Space agency employees and lawmakers protest mass layoffs, science cuts amid budget turmoilNASA employees and allies protested sweeping science cuts they say are gutting the agency from within. As Congress pushes back on NASA leadership, workers warn the damage is already underway — and the future of U.