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If NASA Had Blown Up This Many Rockets, The Government Would Have Cancelled the Space Program
As an institution, the United States Pentagon has come to be known for many things over the years — its transparency, its generosity, its cunning. Consistency is not one of them. In the wake of SpaceX ...
Dozens of NASA space missions could be axed under Trump's budget: Here's a look at 6
Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.
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NASA May Cancel Boeing's Big $82 Billion Space Opportunity
Learn More » I've written at least a half dozen stories, dating back as far as 2018, highlighting various political efforts to cancel the SLS program and its $82 billion worth of future NASA ...
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NASA scientists befuddled after cancellation of lunar robotics program
NASA is pulling the plug on a program aimed at landing a robot on the moon. The cancellation announcement comes during a leadership transition at NASA. The affected program was cancelled by the ...
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What If NASA's Apollo Program Had Not Been Canceled?
(After the near-disaster of Apollo 13 and later cancellations ... "The Apollo Applications Program was meant to blueprint what NASA would be doing in the years that would follow after the initial ...
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NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her.
As an onslaught of executive orders and directives signed by President Donald Trump sent federal agencies into a frenzy of program cancellations and mass layoffs, NASA's acting administrator Janet ...
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NASA cancels $450 million VIPER moon rover due to budget concerns
NASA has cancelled its VIPER moon rover program due to rising costs. VIPER, short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, was a robotic mission intended to land near the moon's south ...
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NASA Reviewing Cancellation of Asteroid Probe
Dawn's cancellation came at a time when NASA ... The mission, part of NASA's low-budget Discovery program, is cost-capped at about $373 million.
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NASA's cancellation of Advanced Sterling Radioisotope Generator casts doubt on future deep-space missions
NASA has announced the cancellation of the decade-old program to develop a Sterling Radioisotope Generator for deep-space missions. This program was a response to the critical shortage in ...
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NASA moon astronauts say don't cancel Constellation program
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...
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NASA outlines impacts of VIPER on CLPS lunar lander program
NASA, though, did quantify the impacts on the CLPS program in a response to a letter from the leadership of the House Science Committee in September about the VIPER cancellation. The members write ...