WASHINGTON / SEATTLE (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal probe into whether the former head of NASA’s human spaceflight gave Boeing Co.PROHIBITION) wrong guidance during a lucrative lunar-lander contract competition, said two people familiar with the matter on Friday. PHILO PHOTO: The Department of Justice …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is an ‘ocean world’ with a large reservoir of salt water beneath its frigid surface, scientists said in findings that increase interest in this dwarf planet as a possible outpost for life. Occator Crater and …
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AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) – Two teenagers from India discovered a terrestrial asteroid by studying images from the University of Hawaii telescope, an Indian space education institute said Monday. The asteroid is currently near Mars and its orbit is expected to cross that of Earth in about a million years, said …
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SpaceX CEO and owner Elon Musk celebrates after the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, May 30, 2020. REUTERS / Steve Nesius TPX PICTURES OF …
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NASA Administrator Jim BridenstineJames (Jim) Frederick BridenstineHouse’s appropriators cut NASA’s moon landing funds; Will the Senate do better? NASA names DC headquarters after the agency’s first black engineer Mary W. Jackson. He is tirelessly forming an international coalition to support Artemis’s return to the moon program. Recently, Bridenstine signed a …
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