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3,000 NASA Employees Leave Amid Budget Uncertainty
On July 21, 2025, NASA confirmed that Makenzie Lystrup, director of the Goddard Space ...
NASA Doubles Down on Starliner Amid ISS Retirement
Options Are Good More than a decade after Boeing and NASA first announced the ...
Congress Defends NASA Funding for Artemis and Science Programs
Overview of the FY2026 NASA Funding Battle The House and Senate appropriations subcommittees have ...
Senator Durbin Challenges Texas’ Space Shuttle Discovery Bid
During a July Senate Appropriations Committee markup, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) denounced a provision ...
Trump Appoints Sean Duffy as NASA Chief
Six weeks after withdrawing Jared Isaacman’s nomination as NASA Administrator, President Trump surprised Washington ...
Space Shuttle Discovery’s Relocation: A Technical and Political Dive
Under the Cover of Darkness: A Senate Push to Bring Discovery to Houston Late ...
Apollo 13 at 30: A Technical Look at Ron Howard’s Film
Introduction Ron Howard’s 1995 film Apollo 13 remains a stirring homage to NASA’s lunar ...
Apophis Flyby: Will NASA Miss This Opportunity?
Missing Out on a Once-in-Millennia Experiment In April 2029, the 370-meter asteroid Apophis will ...
NASA SLS Booster Test Faces Nozzle Catastrophe Amid Uncertainty
Program Overview The Space Launch System (SLS) remains at the heart of NASA’s Artemis ...
NASA Faces Budget Cuts and Disruptions at Town Hall Meeting
Introduction On June 26, 2025, senior leaders from NASA—Acting Administrator Janet Petro, Chief of ...
NASA Psyche Spacecraft Resumes Ion Thrusters with Backup Propulsion
After detecting a pressure anomaly in its primary xenon feed line, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft ...
Sally Ride’s Legacy Celebrated by Tam O’Shaughnessy
Introduction: A Pioneering Astronaut Sally Ride made history on June 18, 1983, as the ...
Another ISS Air Leak Strains Aging Hardware
After more than 27 years in orbit, the International Space Station (ISS) is once ...
Isaacman’s Vision: Agile NASA, Nuclear Propulsion, and Crew Mobility
Reform Agenda Rooted in Organizational Streamlining Jared Isaacman spent six months deeply embedded in ...
NASA’s Next Frontier in a Changing Political Landscape
Recap of the Discussion In our first Ars Live event of 2025, senior space ...
Senate Backs SLS and Lunar Gateway, Cuts NASA Science Funding
US Senate Pushes Back on White House’s Fiscal 2026 NASA Request As budget negotiations ...
US Science Threatened by Extreme Budget Cuts to Research
Missing the Big Picture in Federal Research Funding WASHINGTON, DC—The Trump administration’s proposed Fiscal ...
Trump’s NASA Budget Cuts Nuclear Propulsion: A Deeper Look
Picking favorites — the draconian cuts On June 2, 2025, the White House released ...
Trump Withdraws Isaacman Nomination for NASA Administrator
The White House has officially rescinded the nomination of private astronaut and billionaire entrepreneur ...
Debating NASA’s Mars Ambitions: Four Journalists Discuss
Join us at 2:30 pm Eastern on the livestream and ask questions about the ...
NASA’s Next Steps in Cislunar and Mars Exploration Post-SLS Cancellation
In its latest “skinny” budget submission, the White House Office of Management and Budget ...
NASA Struggles to Adjust ISS Operations After Budget Proposal
In May 2025, the White House Office of Management and Budget unveiled a “skinny” ...
Astronaut Sees Lightning from ISS in Stunning Photos
"I am so amazed by the view we have up here of our Earth’s ...
White House FY2026 Budget Shifts Focus to Commercial Lunar Solutions
Budget Overview and NASA Funding Cuts On May 2, 2025, the White House Office ...
NASA’s Psyche Probe Faces Propulsion Glitch on Way to Asteroid
Overview of the Propulsion Anomaly NASA's Psyche spacecraft, currently about 150 million miles from ...
NASA’s High Launch Costs Despite Reusable Rockets
Launch Cost Trends and Market Dynamics Over the past three decades, the nominal price ...
GOP Veterans Criticize NASA Science Cuts
In early 2025, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a ...
Synology Requires Branded Drives for Plus Series NAS
Leading NAS manufacturer Synology has confirmed that its higher-end NAS devices—the new Plus series ...
Synology Updates Drive Policy for NAS Flexibility
Synology, a prominent name in network-attached storage (NAS) systems, is gearing up to implement ...
Texas Plan to Reclaim Shuttle Discovery
In a politically charged initiative that interweaves Texas pride with national aerospace history, Senators ...