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Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will 'move aside' from climate sciences to focus on exploring moon and Mars

The United States space agency has pioneered planetary science technologies as the world's leader in climate research for ...

Lehigh Valley gas company giving NASA an assist with moon mission

LOWER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. - A Lehigh Valley company is playing a major role in NASA's mission to get astronauts back on the ...

NASA moon reactor directive, X-37B mission and Cargo Dragon launch | Space Beat

This week on Space Beat, Rob and Space reporter Brooke Edwards discuss the NASA directive to put a nuclear reactor on the ...
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South Korea's K-RadCube radiation satellite will hitch a ride on NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission

South Korea's KASA is just one international space agency that will fly cubesats on the mission; Germany's DLR will also ...

Where on the moon NASA places its nuclear reactor isn’t simple

In a bold, strategic move for the U.S., acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced plans on August 5 to build a nuclear fission reactor for deployment on the lunar surface in 2030. Doing so would ...

Washington-made rockets taking NASA to the moon for the first time in half a century

NASA’s Artemis campaign is a bold series of missions to take humans back to the moon, and those astronauts will get there ...

How NASA's Artemis II lunar science operations will inform future missions

NASA's Artemis II mission, set to send four astronauts on a nearly 10-day mission around the moon and back, will advance the ...
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Artemis 2 astronauts suit up for nighttime moon launch dress rehearsal (photos, video)

NASA's Artemis 2 mission — the first-ever crewed mission of the Orion capsule and Space Launch System (SLS) — is targeting a ...