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The lawsuit filed in federal court in upstate New York on Friday contends that the lockdown on April 8 violates inmates' constitutional rights to participate in a religiously significant event.

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Two newly proposed laws in the Senate aim to change the regulation of commercial space operations, including starting the process of eventually ending the "learning period" that restricts safety rules for human spaceflight.

A NASA official is optimistic that a problem with the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which has prevented it from transmitting understandable data for months, can be resolved.

The challenges NASA is encountering with Mars Sample Return (MSR) are part of a long-standing difficulty the agency faces with science missions that sometimes deliberately reach beyond their limits, according to agency officials and advisers.

Changes to a large deployable antenna on a U.S.-Indian radar spacecraft will push back its launch, probably to the second half of the year.

A Soyuz spacecraft is en route to the International Space Station on March 23, two days after a rare last-minute launch delay.

NASA and Boeing are working towards the first crewed flight of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in early May, which is the final milestone before the vehicle is approved for regular flights to the International Space Station.

On March 21, a cargo spacecraft was launched toward the International Space Station, just hours after a rare last-minute cancellation of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft launch to the station.

Astronomers are resisting NASA's plans to reduce the budgets of two well-established space telescopes, arguing that the cuts to one of them could endanger the future of X-ray astronomy in the United States.