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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will cut over 20 percent of its workforce under President Donald Trump’s plan to shrink the federal government. This comes after nearly two rounds of the deferred resignation program implemented by Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency to cut down on waste,
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Futurism on MSNBonkers NASA Mission Aims to Drop Six Helicopters Onto Mars From SpaceAeroVironment and NASA's JPL have shown off a wild concept for deploying six helicopters above the surface of Mars.
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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.
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.
The Crew-11 astronauts will soon head to the International Space Station to replace the mission that allowed the Starliner crew to depart in March.
Students in AST 250/251 build sophisticated space physics instruments of their own design — suiting in bunny suits, booties, hairnets, gloves and masks alongside the engineers and scientists building NASA flight hardware.