Articles under this tag examine NASA’s missions, spacecraft, launch programs, science initiatives, and the broader STEM technologies shaping its role in humanity’s exploration of space.
Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy is convinced the U.S. will win the 21st-century "Moon race", despite massive defunding and being the only participant. In a recent internal NASA town hall,
Powered by defunding efforts and a lack of clear, unified plans, Trump's NASA is a mess of rhetoric and proposals. In recent days, it has become increasingly clear that NASA leadership
Sean Duffy wants NASA to place nuclear reactors on the Moon to claim regions of it, in clear violation of the Outer Space Treaty. Some time in the coming week, Acting NASA Administrator
Zena Cardman, Michael Fincke, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov are heading to the International Space Station following a launch from the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. Liftoff of the Crew-11 mission occurred at
The joint 1.5 billion United States Dollar, 2,393 kilogram NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) spacecraft was carried to a 747-kilometer, 98.4-degree sun-synchronous orbit earlier today. Launch of NISAR atop of
Makenzie Lystrup, Director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the state of Maryland, shared on July 21st that she was resigning from the space agency. In her letter of resignation,
Donald Trump returned to the White House back in January, promising lofty goals for the country's space agency, including sending astronauts to the Moon and Mars. In the six months since
NASA leadership, consisting of Janet Petro, Acting NASA Administrator, Brian Hughes, NASA Chief of Staff, Vanessa Wyche, Acting NASA Associate Administrator, Casey Swails, Deputy Associate Administrator, held an agency-wide 'Town Hall'
Note: All funding figures are in United States Dollars. NASA released details on its fiscal year 2026 budget on May 30th, confirming details on what the Trump Administration, which has few plans for
While NASA has been preparing for a half dozen Artemis missions to the Moon, the Trump Administration has spent its first few months back in the White House planning ways to end the
NASA's budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 would send billions in cuts across the space agency while leaving the over-budget and behind-schedule Space Launch System (SLS) rocket unaffected. The proposed cuts
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation held its nomination hearing for Jared Isaacman, a billionaire spacefarer of two flights, to become the fifteenth NASA Administrator. This comes five months
