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Trump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut”

Secretary of Transportation weighs in That was pretty much how things stood until Thursday evening, when the Secretary of the US Department of Transportation, Sean...

Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?

Should the city of Houston, which proudly bills itself as "Space City," have a prized Space Shuttle orbiter on public display? More than a decade...

After a spacecraft was damaged en route to launch, NASA says it won’t launch

Three weeks ago, NASA revealed that a shipping container protecting a Cygnus spacecraft sustained "damage" while traveling to the launch site in Florida. Built by...

Can NASA remain nonpartisan when basic spaceflight truths are shredded?

It looked like the final scene of a movie, the denouement of a long adventure in which the good guys finally prevail. Azure skies and...

Crew-10 launches, finally clearing the way for Butch and Suni to fly home

A Falcon 9 rocket launched four astronauts safely into orbit on Friday evening, marking the official beginning of the Crew-10 mission to the International Space...

NASA officials undermine Musk’s claims about ‘stranded’ astronauts

Musk claims he made an offer directly to senior officials in the Biden Administration. We have no way to verify that, but it does seem...

Intuitive Machines’ second attempt to land on the Moon also went sideways

Inside a small control room, during the middle of the day on Thursday local time in Texas, about a dozen white-knuckled engineers at a space...

In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees

So what changed? It was not immediately clear why. A NASA spokesperson in Washington, DC, offered no comment on the updated guidance. Two sources indicated...

Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts

The primary contractor for the Space Launch System rocket, Boeing, is preparing for the possibility that NASA cancels the long-running program. On Friday, with less...

White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation

Sometime during the next several weeks, the directors of federal agencies will receive a draft version of President Trump's budget request for the coming fiscal...

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