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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal detailing their vision for cutting government costs.One major target is a list of programs with expired congressional funding authorization, totaling $516 billion.The largest items on that list include veterans’ healthcare, college grants, and housing assistance.Elon Musk and…
The Wall Street Journal reported that Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin have shared secret calls since 2022.Several Washington officials are now seeking a probe into the report.A former DoD analyst said that a relationship like this could pose national security concerns. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and a growing number of…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope floored astronomers and spectators across the globe when it released its first full-color images.Even the scientists who worked on the telescope were taken aback when they saw those first snapshots in the summer of 2022, telling reporters that they sobbed, fell speechless, or dropped their…
The biotech company Interstellar Lab beat over 300 competing teams to receive NASA’s $750,000 grand prize in August for its project NuCLEUS (NUtritional Closed-Loop Eco-Unit System).NuCLEUS consists of a series of cubes that resemble a large tic-tac-toe board. The cubes mostly contain vegetable plants, microgreens, mushrooms, or insects.So far, Interstellar…
NASA has decided the lives of two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station will be in SpaceX’s hands after weeks of intense deliberation and serious safety concerns.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson made the announcement during a press conference on Saturday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.The two astronauts, Suni…
If Boeing and NASA can’t get their spaceship together, SpaceX may have to come to two astronauts’ rescue. The downside is the duo will be stuck on the International Space Station for about eight months longer than planned.Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched into orbit aboard Boeing’s Starliner vehicle…
To be clear, NASA is not declaring that it’s discovered Martian life. Rather, its Perseverance rover has drilled a sample from a rock with attributes that could have come from ancient microbial activity, the agency announced Thursday.”This is exactly the kind of sample that we wanted to find,” Katie Stack…
NASA is scrapping a moon rover it spent $450 million to construct, and axing the machine’s mission to find water on the moon. The agency discontinued the development of VIPER — or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover — because it proved exceedingly expensive.NASA’s statement on Wednesday said that the rover…
NASA has invested $725,000 in a new rocket system that could solve one of the major obstacles standing in our way of sending humans to Mars: travel time.With current technology, a round-trip to the red planet would take almost two years. For astronauts, spending that much time in spaceflight comes…
The duo flew into space aboard Boeing’s Starliner spaceship, testing it out as its first-ever human passengers, on June 5. They were supposed to stay on the station for eight days, then return home so NASA could certify the spaceship and start using it regularly.Shortly after they reached space, though,…
