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NASA employees are bracing for layoffs and budget cuts as the congressional dispute over government funding drags on, threatening several crucial space missions—including some that are already in space. Earlier this week, hundreds of space advocates met with Congress to try and salvage NASA’s funding, according to The Planetary Society. The White House’s proposed budget for 2026, released in May, …

IN A NUTSHELL 🌕 The Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) is designed to navigate the Moon’s extreme conditions and extend mission capabilities. 🔋 General Motors is leveraging its battery technology to provide the LTV with a rechargeable battery lasting up to ten years. 🛠️ The LTV features advanced mobility technologies like Crab Walking and zero-point turning for lunar navigation. 🚀 NASA’s …

I have not played the entirety of the Battlefield 6 single-player campaign yet, but I played enough to have a solid guess as to what the high-level goals for it were. It wasn’t until I got a chance to speak to some of the people behind it that my suspicions were validated. It’s also very easy to guess that some …

NASA Launches IMAP and Space Weather Missions on SpaceX Rocket: How to Watch  The New York Times Live coverage: SpaceX to launch NASA, NOAA missions exploring the impacts of the Sun  Spaceflight Now NASA launches urgent mission to protect GPS, power grids from solar storms  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Space Weather Missions  NASA (.gov) …

HOUSTON — NASA has introduced its new class of astronaut candidates, some of whom may be among the first people to set foot on Mars. The cadre — the 24th astronaut class in NASA’s history, and the first new one since 2021 — was announced today (Sept. 22) during a ceremony here at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The newly unveiled …

Rocket Lab wants to bring NASA’s Perseverance rover samples back from Mars. As interest in Mars Sample Return (MSR) resurfaces, Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck says his company already has experience with the spacecraft and hardware needed to get the interplanetary job done. The MSR mission has taken on new urgency since a Sept. 10 NASA announcement that …

Space News: 50 years ago, NASA sent 2 spacecraft to search for life on Mars – the Viking missions’ findings are still discussed today  Lake County News,California Source link

As NASA prepares to put astronauts on the moon in the next few years, the agency is thinking about “how to live and operate away from the Earth, on other planets” — especially Mars. Those comments were delivered during a virtual Artemis 4 landing site science workshop on Sept. 10 by Jacob Bleacher, chief exploration scientist at NASA. Bleacher, a …

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Finding life beyond the Earth would be a major scientific discovery with significant implications for all areas of science and human thought. Yet, only one direct search for extraterrestrial life has ever been conducted. The NASA Viking spacecraft, which landed …

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for an observatory designed to study space weather and explore and map the boundaries of our solar neighborhood. Launching with IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) are two rideshare missions, NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1), both of …