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Isaacman’s bold plan for NASA: Nuclear ships, seven-crew Dragons, accelerated Artemis

Nearly two weeks have passed since Jared Isaacman received a fateful, brief phone call from two officials in President Trump's Office of Personnel Management. In...

Senate response to White House budget for NASA: Keep SLS, nix science

This legislation, the committee said in a messaging document, "Dedicates almost $10 billion to win the new space race with China and ensure America dominates...

Trump pulls Isaacman nomination for space. Source: “NASA is f***ed”

Musk was a key factor behind Isaacman's nomination as NASA administrator, and with his backing, Isaacman was able to skip some of the party purity...

Elon Musk: There is an 80 percent chance Starship’s engine bay issues are solved

Ars: Ten years ago you kind of made big bets on Starship and Starlink, and most people probably expected one or both of them to...

The Pentagon seems to be fed up with ULA’s rocket delays

Some of the displeasure was apparent in April when the US military announced that it would ask SpaceX to launch a plurality of its missions...

For the first time in the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight

A US-based propulsion company, Venus Aerospace, said Wednesday it had completed a short flight test of its rotating detonation rocket engine at Spaceport America in...

NASA scrambles to cut ISS activity due to budget issues

Canceling the tracker layer upgrade to the spectrometer would also not be catastrophic. The addition of a silicon tracker layer on top of the detector...

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...

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