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NASA Budget Request Is a ‘Soft Cancellation’ of Venus Mission, Experts Say
A highly anticipated mission to Venus is in trouble after NASA pulled all of its funding, save for a tiny fraction meant to keep the planetary orbiter on brittle life support as its fate hangs in the balance.
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RIP AIM: NASA Probe Retires From Observing Clouds at the Edge of Space
For the past 15 years, a small NASA spacecraft has explored the edge of space, probing the elusive clouds that form in Earth’s mesosphere. But the spacecraft is no longer operating the way it used to, forcing the team to end its mission.
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Everything We Learned From the NASA-Axiom Moon Suit Unveiling
Axiom Space revealed its new Moon suit yesterday during an event held at NASA’s Space Centre Houston. It’s the first Moon-specific suit since the Apollo era and a key component of NASA’s Artemis program, which seeks to return humans to the Moon later this decade. Here’s what we learned about the new suit, dubbed AxEMU.
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NASA Taps Firefly for Lunar Far Side Delivery Mission
Texas-based Firefly has been tasked with placing a lunar lander on the far side of the Moon, where it will drop off a pair of communications experiments.