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More than 20% of NASA's workforce requests to leave agency
About 3,870 employees have applied to depart NASA over two rounds through the Trump administration's deferred resignation ...
Lawmakers writing NASA’s budget want a cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket
House and Senate appropriations bills would preserve SLS, Orion, and the Gateway. However, the House version of NASA's budget ...
NASA says 20% of workforce to depart space agency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -About 20% of the employees at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration are set to depart ...
The NASA exodus
At least 1 in 5 NASA staff — mostly top scientists, engineers and senior managers — plan to announce their departure by a ...
Jaw-Dropping Video Shows NASA’s Plan to Deliver a Helicopter Swarm to Mars Without Landing
The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.
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SpaceX launches NASA's TRACERS mission to protect Earth from space weather (video)
One of these ride-along NASA efforts is the Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, which will ...
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When will NASA get a permanent leader and why is it taking so long?
AS NASA moves towards looming budget cuts, the agency still lacks a permanent leader. Here's why the search for administrator ...
NASA probes will study how solar wind triggers potentially dangerous "space weather"
Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...
SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weather
Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million ...
NASA loses another senior official as tension about the agency's future grows
The departures are playing out as NASA and other government agencies contend with significant cuts to funding and personnel.
NASA seeks moon and Mars communications, navigation proposals
Planned moon and Mars missions require timely communications and navigation systems, which is prompting NASA officials to ...
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'NASA is under attack.' Space agency employees and lawmakers protest mass layoffs, science cuts amid budget turmoil
NASA employees and allies protested sweeping science cuts they say are gutting the agency from within. As Congress pushes ...