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Senegal has become the 56th country to sign the Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration, NASA announced. The accords pledge care in space exploration.
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.
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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.
The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.
Current and former NASA employees have co-signed a declaration protesting changes at the agency that some say pose a grave risk to astronauts.
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Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million mission to study a phenomenon of space physics that has eluded researchers since the dawn of the Space Age.
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.
Visible on the planet itself is a dark patch near the top, marking the frigid northern polar cap, where temperatures dip to about -190 degrees Fahrenheit. A circular region shows Elysium Mons, one of Mars’ giant volcanoes.
On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, August 1. Lystrup has held the top job at Goddard since April 2023, overseeing a staff of more than 8,000 civil servants and contractor employees and a budget last year of about $4.7 billion.