“I’ll buy 10 of those”—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites

So why is NASA launching fewer telescopes and planetary science missions than it did a quarter-century ago? The answer is complex. It is not necessarily the money. The space agency’s science budget this year is $7.

NASA declares its Mars Maven spacecraft dead after six months of silence

NASA's Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead after six months of radio silence

Opinion: NASA’s moon base might be nothing like science fiction’s predictions

NASA officials expressed several reasons for making the moon base, in effect, a small city.
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How 4 astronauts squeezed into a campervan-sized spacecraft to do science

Earlier this month, the Artemis II astronauts took the ultimate roadtrip: a flyby of the Moon, on which they brought the entire world along.

NASA wastewater system will turn human poop into plant food

Waste management in space has come a long way since the first moon missions. Back in the 1960s, NASA Apollo astronauts left behind 96 bags of human waste (filled with poop, urine, and vomit) on the lunar surface to save weight. Those bags are almost certainly still there.

Meet the new director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida

Brian Hughes takes charge of NASA's Kennedy Space Center as the facility faces infrastructure challenges to keep pace with rapid space-industry growth.

NASA directs its ISS crew members to board spacecraft amid leak repair attempt

NASA directed five astronauts to board a docked Dragon spacecraft as cosmonauts attempt to address a leak on the International Space Station, a NASA press secretary said Friday.
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Want to help NASA with space science? Here's how to volunteer

The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back — the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an important part of NASA’s human space exploration story ...