Category: 2. Space
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How NASA advisory committees are navigating a new political landscape
Since the start of the second Trump administration, NASA’s formal advisory committees have largely been suspended. While the congressionally mandated Aerospace Safety Advisory Committee has continued its work, the NASA Advisory Council…
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How a Childhood Telescope Launched a NASA Career for Christina Zeringue
Christina Zeringue remembers being 10 years old, looking to the sky through her new telescope to view the Moon and planets on Christmas night. It opened her eyes to space and inspired her journey from the backyard to NASA’s Stennis Space…
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I Am Artemis: Lili Villarreal
Listen to this audio excerpt from Liliana Villarreal, Artemis Landing & Recovery Director:
Lili Villarreal fell in love with space exploration from an early age when she and her family…
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Lunar helium-3: separating market from marketing
On May 5, 2025, Interlune — a Seattle-based startup — announced a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): they’ll deliver helium-3, harvested from the moon, to Earth by 2029. The press release, which calls the deal a…
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Second ispace mission ready for lunar landing attempt
WASHINGTON — Japanese company ispace is set to make its second attempt to land on the moon this week as the company looks ahead to larger, more ambitious lunar landers.
The Tokyo-based company slightly revised the landing time for its…
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NASA’s budget crisis presents an opportunity for change
When the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its top-level budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 on May 2, NASA and the space industry feared the worst. Leaks of an OMB “passback” budget document to NASA in…
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Maxar inks partnership with Saab for defense applications of geospatial data
WASHINGTON — Maxar Intelligence announced an agreement with Sweden’s aerospace firm Saab to develop battlefield intelligence products that use satellite data, including Maxar’s new terrain-based navigation technology that allows…
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