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NASA’s 0.01% Outreach Plan  NASA Watch Source link

Joel Graham – New NASA AA For Legislative and IG Affairs  NASA Watch Source link

LAS VEGAS — The head of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is resigning while hundreds of current and former agency employees voice their concerns about the direction of NASA under the new administration. To continue reading this article: Register now and get3 free articles every month. You’ll also receive our weekly SpaceNews This Week newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at any …

Americans Want Americans To Go (Back) To The Moon (And On To Mars Too)  NASA Watch CBS News poll: Most Americans favor U.S. returning to moon, going to Mars  CBS News Growing number of people want astronauts to visit Mars  The Independent On Apollo 11 lunar landing anniversary, we look at future missions to the moon  The Mercury News 5 Reasons Why We Need …

An experimental technique rescued a camera aboard the agency’s Juno spacecraft, offering lessons that will benefit other space systems that experience high radiation. The mission team of NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian moon Io. Results from the long-distance save were presented during a …

You can add another name to the thousands of employees leaving NASA as the Trump administration primes the space agency for a 25 percent budget cut. On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, August 1. Lystrup has held the top job at Goddard since April 2023, …

SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday, and area residents may hear a sonic boom. The 57-minute launch window opens at 11:13 a.m. A livestream of the launch is scheduled to begin about 15 minutes before liftoff. About eight minutes after liftoff, SpaceX will aim to land the rocket’s first stage booster …

NASA GSFC Director Is Leaving  NASA Watch Source link

● ● • We dissent to changes to NASA’s Technical Authority capacities that are driven by anything other than safety and mission assurance. The culture of organizational silence promoted at NASA over the last six months already represents a dangerous turn away from the lessons learned following the Columbia disaster. Changes to the system of …

A group of 287 scientists and current and former NASA employees has issued a declaration lambasting budget cuts, grant cancellations and a “culture of organizational silence” that they say could pose a risk to astronauts’ safety. The document — titled “The Voyager Declaration” and dedicated to astronauts who lost their lives in tragic spaceflight incidents of the past — is …