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NASA Audit Finds Boeing Starliner Still Has Major Flaws and Certification Could Slip to 2027

Unresolved helium leaks, thruster heating and parachute concerns have prompted NASA to buy extra Crew Dragon flights, increasing agency costs.

NASA Names Artemis III Crew for 2027 Orbital Dress Rehearsal

Artemis II Heat Shield Shows Reduced Damage in First NASA Review

Two Candidate Sites for Long‑Lost Luna 9 Flagged in LRO Images by AI and Crowdsourced Sleuthing

Juno Sounding Finds Europa’s Outer Ice Layer Averages 18 Miles Thick in Surveyed Region

MAVEN Still Silent as Data Point to Unexpected Spin and Possible Orbit Change

NASA Scales Back Dream Chaser ISS Deal, Requiring Free‑Flight Demo and Dropping Guaranteed Missions

SpaceX's Latest Starlink Launch Expands Global Broadband Network

NASA Faces Pressure to Replace Costly SLS Rocket for Artemis Missions

SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Two Lunar Landers on Groundbreaking Missions

Physicists Propose Relativistic Electron Beams to Propel Probe to Alpha Centauri

ESA and D-Orbit Partner for Europe's First In-Orbit Satellite Servicing Mission

ESA's JUICE Spacecraft Executes Historic Lunar-Earth Flyby

Cygnus Resupply Mission Reaches ISS Despite Initial Setbacks