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NASA losing nearly 4,000 employees to Trump administration's 'deferred resignation' program

NASA has lost about 500 people via normal attrition as well since Trump took office in January. Counting those losses, NASA's ...

Lawmakers writing NASA’s budget want a cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket

House and Senate appropriations bills would preserve SLS, Orion, and the Gateway. However, the House version of NASA's budget ...

NASA: Senegal is 56th country to sign Artemis Accords

Senegal has become the 56th country to sign the Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration, NASA announced. The accords ...

The NASA exodus

At least 1 in 5 NASA staff — mostly top scientists, engineers and senior managers — plan to announce their departure by a ...
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SpaceX 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 ...

Jaw-Dropping Video Shows NASA’s Plan to Deliver a Helicopter Swarm to Mars Without Landing

The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.
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In scathing letter, NASA workers rebuke ‘rapid and wasteful changes’ at agency

Current and former NASA employees have co-signed a declaration protesting changes at the agency that some say pose a grave ...

When will NASA get a permanent leader and why is it taking so long?

AS NASA moves towards looming budget cuts, the agency still lacks a permanent leader. Here's why the search for administrator ...

NASA probes will study how solar wind triggers potentially dangerous "space weather"

Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...

Investing in Space: NASA's months of reckoning

A group of 360 current and former employees penned a letter rebuking "rapid and wasteful changes" across staffing, mission ...