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On this SpaceGeeks podcast, Jeff Thornburg talks about his time at SpaceX where he led development of the company's methane-fueled Mars engine, Raptor. → Read More
Maybe it's technically correct, but throngs of screaming fans who gathered at the Science Museum in London to watch his arrival on TV don't care. → Read More
If it isn’t canceled altogether, NASA’s Mars InSight lander will now launch more than two years later than planned, thanks to a balky seismometer, the agency’s top science official told reporters Dec. 22. → Read More
Under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, NOAA will get $809 million for the first two JPSS satellites and $871.8 million for the GOES-R program. → Read More
A NOAA on Dec. 9 official shed new light on two recent component snafus that prompted the agency to delay launch of its GOES-R coastal-watchdog satellite. → Read More
Meet Keri Bean, who enjoys dressing up like Han Solo, building replicas of Star Wars droids, and her day job operating real space robots for NASA. → Read More
John Honeycutt took over as program manager for NASA’s Space Launch System in early October. SLS is the linchpin for NASA’s much-hyped “Journey to Mars.” → Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope’s Nobel Prize-winning head astronomer advised planetary scientists Nov. 9 to get started on proposals for focusing JWST’s 6.5-meter mirror on objects most closer to home than its usual cosmic quarry. → Read More
NASA says the orbiter it aims to launch in the 2020s could carry the mechanisms needed to collect and store surface samples for a return trip to Earth. → Read More
The head of NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample-return probe plans to crowdfund an outreach budget for the mission on Kickstarter by selling a card game." → Read More
NASA began an early feasibility study for missions to the distant, mostly-ignored ice-giants Uranus and Neptune, a senior agency official said here Aug. 24. → Read More
NASA ordered two more cargo deliveries to the International Space Station from Orbital ATK under a 2008 Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract, a company spokeswoman said Aug. 12. → Read More
NASA has selected three finalists for its next Small Explorer astrophysics mission and two finalists for the even smaller Explorer Missions of Opportunity Line, the U.S. space agency said July 30, → Read More
Two tiny cubesats, the first NASA plans to send to another planet, will keep watch on the agency’s InSight mission as it descends to the Martian surface. → Read More
Twitter user Kevin Eicrhelberger scored what will probably go down as the find of his beach-combing career: the briny wreckage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. → Read More
An inflatable drone could cruise the sulfurous skies of Venus next decade if Northrop Gruman can sell NASA on the mission. → Read More
Sparks flew on Capitol Hill where a NASA authorization bill that recommends deep cuts for Earth science made it out of a sharply divided committee on a party line vote. → Read More
SpaceX, the private spaceflight company headed by Elon Musk, is protesting the Air Force's multibillion-dollar block-buy contract with its competitior, United Launch Alliance. → Read More