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NASA is set to begin training with a prototype of Blue Origin's crew moon lander By Cheyenne MacDonald May 9, 2026 4:37 pm EST Following the success of its Artemis II crewed mission , NASA is now turning its focus to the next milestones in its plan to put astronauts back on the moon. …
… In all, NASA lost around 4,000 employees in 2025 , and Trump tried to cut NASA's budget to levels not seen since before the Space Race. …
… NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Before Psyche took those images, however, the spacecraft took a photo showing a crescent Mars. …
… By Ian Carlos Campbell May 26, 2026 6:04 pm EST NASA has shared a preliminary and seemingly ambitious schedule for the first three Moon Base missions. …
NASA's X-59 reaches speed and altitude milestones ahead of first quiet supersonic flights The plane will soon be ready to fly over US communities. …
… NASA "That detection is pretty profound because these structures can be chemical precursors to more complex nitrogen-bearing molecules," the paper's lead author, Amy Williams, wrote in NASA's announcement . …
… Splashdown went according to plan, with Orion landing 2.9 miles from its targeted landing site, according to NASA, and its entry interface velocity "was within one mile-per-hour of predictions." US Navy NASA says the SLS rocket performed well, too. …
… Lori Glaze from NASA Headquarters in Washington. …
… Key test flights approach for NASA's quiet supersonic plane Over the last decade, NASA has been developing an aircraft that could one day reach supersonic speeds — or travel faster than the speed of sound — without producing the thunderous sonic booms typically associated with this feat. …
… Its spin period, measured using NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, was about 46-60 hours in May 2017, but later observations by the Hubble Space Telescope showed it was just 14 hours, according to NASA . …