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NASA Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup Resigns  NASA Watch Source link

CNN  —  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 …

A viral Reddit video shows the terrifying moment NASA astronaut Dale Gardner floated untethered in space to capture a satellite. There are a lot of terrifying things you can find in space, from mysterious massive voids 250 to 330 million light-years across, to tiny droplets of water in your space suit that could very easily drown you. But the moniker of “most …

Hundreds of NASA Employees Condemn Trump Administration Cuts in Public Letter  The New York Times ‘Catastrophic impacts’: NASA workers sign declaration to protest changes they say threaten safety and progress  CNN Bipartisan Congressional Letter: Alarm Over NASA Science Cuts Threatening U.S. Leadership in Space  NASA Watch Congress Shows Resistance to Trump’s Science Budget Cuts  Inside Higher Ed Rally protesting NASA Glenn Budget Cuts held …

A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they affect our atmosphere and satellites. NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS for short, mission represents a pair of satellites that will fly in a sun-synchronous orbit — meaning they are always over the …

NASA finally announces 2025 space research grants, but lack of awards puts Tucson’s PSI in trouble  Tucson Sentinel Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES)-2025 Released  NASA Science (.gov) NASA ROSES-25 Amendment 2: Exoplanets Research Program Step-1  astrobiology.com NASA Seeks Proposals for Annual Space and Earth Sciences Research Program  ExecutiveGov NASA ROSES-25 Amendment 1: Restrictions on Interagency Awards  astrobiology.com Source link

A NASA Mars mission’s long and winding road to the launch pad is nearing its end. The twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) Mars probes had been scheduled to launch last October, on the first-ever flight of Blue Origin‘s huge, partially reusable New Glenn rocket. But NASA took the two spacecraft off that flight in September, citing …

If you want to capture the majesty of the Sun, you should probably ask an artist, but if you want to capture its raw power, that’s a job for a robot. While generations of artists have painted or photographed sunsets and poets have written sonnets to the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) just sent back the closest solar snapshots …

From Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars, explore the world of human spaceflight with NASA each week on the official podcast of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Listen to in-depth conversations with the astronauts, scientists and engineers who make it possible. On episode 393, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 quartet each dive into their paths to space and what …

NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter photographed this region in the northern latitudes of Mars on July 25, 1976, while searching for a landing site for the Viking 2 lander. The image shows a mesa that resembles a human face (centre), which helped to spawn a cottage industry of pseudoscientific claims about ancient Martian civilisations. Further high-resolution images from later missions revealed …