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NASA is commissioning 10 studies on Mars Sample Return—most are commercial
Ars Technica· 1 hour agoNASA announced Friday that it will award contracts to seven companies, including SpaceX and Blue...
NASA puts $10M down on Mars sample return proposals from Blue Origin, SpaceX and others
TechCrunch· 3 hours agoIt turns out the space industry has a lot of ideas on how to improve NASA’s $11 billion, 15-year...
The storied Hubble telescope has gone into ‘safe mode.’ Here’s NASA’s plan to keep it alive
CNN via AOL· 5 hours agoNASA is changing the way the Hubble Space Telescope operates to bypass an issue that keeps putting...
NASA Ames Astrogram - May/June 2024 - NASA
NASA· 2 hours agoby Tara Friesen
Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, has died in Washington plane crash
Houston Chronicle· 34 minutes agoRetired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when ...
The People's Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo
Astronomy Magazine· 8 hours agoThe following is an excerpt from The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public...
Stealth gas contracts awarded amid high-profile crewed Starliner mission
United Press International via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoNASA has awarded key contracts to a half dozen companies that will supply liquid nitrogen and liquid...
NASA's wants new ideas for its troubled Mars Sample Return mission
SPACE.com· 4 hours agoNASA's Mars Sample Return program has hit several snags in recent months after being told its...
NASA Exploring Alternative Mars Sample Return Methods
KOIN News 6 Portland· 5 hours agoNASA is moving forward with ten studies to examine more affordable and faster methods of bringing samples from Mars' surface back to Earth as part of the agency's Mars Sample ...
NASA astronaut Bill Anders, who took famous photo of Earth during Apollo, dies at 90
NPR· 30 minutes ago"So," he remembered in 2015, "I machine-gunned it, snapping, I just rotated the F-stop. And as it turned out, one of those pictures was selected by NASA to be the iconic Earthrise ...