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NASA took a significant step forward in its Artemis program as the second core stage for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket rolled out of the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission is set to launch this fall
NASA has announced its decision to cease the development of its VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project.
The leadership of the House Science Committee has unveiled the NASA Reauthorization Act of 2024, a bipartisan effort aimed at formally authorizing and funding several ongoing NASA programs.
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, a $5 billion flagship endeavor to explore Jupiter’s ocean moon, is facing significant challenges due to concerns over the durability of transistors aboard the spacecraft.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its 20th close approach to the Sun, reaching a distance of approximately 4.51 million miles (7.26 million kilometers) from the solar surface.
A key review revealed a nearly one-in-three chance that the mission's lander might be delayed by up to a year and a half.
NASA has selected astronaut Andre Douglas as the backup crew member for the agency’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis campaign.
This initiative comes after several incidents where debris from the trunk sections of Dragon spacecraft, which are jettisoned before the capsule performs a deorbit burn, have been discovered on land.
NASA has made the historic selection of SpaceX to develop and deliver the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle, which will ensure the ISS can be safely deorbited and its re-entry managed to avoid risks to populated areas.
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