Futurism

NASA Reportedly Shutting Down Its Largest Library, Throwing Materials Away

NASA’s budget is still an unfathomable mess. The government shutdown late last year once again delayed proceedings to determine the space agency’s future — but if it were up to the Trump ...
CNBC

New NASA boss Isaacman says U.S. will return to the moon within Trump's term

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the U.S. will return to the moon within President Donald Trump's second term. Isaacman said that will be key to unlocking an "orbital economy," which could ...
SpaceNews

NASA safety panel recommends review of Artemis plans

WASHINGTON — NASA’s safety advisers are recommending that the agency reconsider its Artemis lunar landing architecture as well as how it handles incidents such as the flawed Starliner test flight.
Gizmodo

NASA Has a New Chief. Here’s What He Could Do in His First 20 Days

Newly minted NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has expressed a desire to shake things up at NASA. It appears he’ll hit the ground running. Reading time 3 minutes Jared Isaacman—a pilot, two-time ...
Ars Technica

NASA finally—and we really do mean it this time—has a full-time leader

Jared Isaacman, a pilot and financial tech billionaire, has commanded two groundbreaking spaceflights, including leading the first private spacewalk. But his most remarkable flying has occurred over ...
The New York Times

Trump’s NASA Pick Is Confirmed to Lead Space Program in Peril

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire nominated twice to lead the agency, may draw some lessons from the tenure of another NASA leader in the 1990s. By Kenneth Chang After 11 months of tumult and downsizing ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft May Actually Be Lost in Space

This could be the end of the orbiter that studies the Red Planet’s atmosphere and relays communications between NASA and its Mars rovers. Reading time 2 minutes Last week, NASA revealed that it lost ...
Los Angeles Times

NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the last decade

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven ...
Ars Technica

NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one

NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...
CBS News

NASA says Maven spacecraft that was orbiting Mars has gone silent

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...
PBS

NASA loses contact with Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said ...
Scientific American

NASA Loses Signal from Critical Mars Orbiter

One of NASA’s workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to troubleshoot the issue. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission ...