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'I'll be damned if that's the story we write': Acting NASA Administrator Duffy vows not to lose moon race to China

NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy pushed back against recent claims that the agency is losing ground to China in the race ...
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Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees have opted to leave the space agency through the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, NASA said on Saturday. The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of ...
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Duffy pushes back against testimony that NASA is falling behind China in lunar exploration

NASA’s acting administrator said he was “angry” after a predecessor told Congress the agency was behind China in sending ...

4 volunteers to live in ‘Mars’ for 378 days as part of NASA’s experiment

NASA’s CHAPEA mission will place four crew members inside a 3D-printed Mars habitat to study human health and performance ...

A Cosmic Gut Punch Made Mars Lumpy Inside, According To NASA's InSight Lander

On Mars, things are a lot more static. It’s a single-plate planet with incredibly slow mixing. When InSight peered into the ...
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NASA Astronaut Butch Wilmore Retires 4 Months After Returning From Being Stranded in Space

Four months after the NASA astronaut and his colleague Sunita “Suni” Williams returned from their eight-day-turned-nine-month space mission, the 62-year-old has officially retired. “After 25 years ...

NASA confirms a massive 100-foot asteroid is approaching Earth at high speed on September 10

Space enthusiasts and scientists are watching the sky closely. An asteroid the size of an aeroplane is approaching. NASA ...