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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.The White House recently proposed slashing NASA’s science budget nearly in half and reducing the space agency’s…

NASA’s Plan for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Could Be a Lunar Land GrabSpurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing…

During President Trump’s first term in office, he signed Space Policy Directive 1, signaling the administration’s desire to bring American astronauts back to the moon. This…

The federal government is full of scientists who lend their expertise to key decisions about our food, medicines, environment, health care, and more. But as the…

You can add another name to the thousands of employees leaving NASA as the Trump administration primes the space agency for a 25 percent budget cut.On…

NASA Staff Rebuke White House Cuts in Rare Public DissentA declaration of dissent from past and present NASA employees warns that science and safety are at…

Almost 300 current and former US Nasa employees, including at least four astronauts, have issued a scathing dissent opposing the Trump administration’s sweeping and indiscriminate cuts…

● ● • We dissent to changes to NASA’s Technical Authority capacities that are driven by anything other than safety and mission assurance.…

Trump Names Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as Interim NASA ChiefThe selection of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to temporarily lead NASA adds to the deep political…

Donald Trump has appointed his transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, as interim administrator of Nasa, six weeks after withdrawing the nomination of the Elon Musk ally and…