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House moves forward with four bills related to space on March 20, addressing topics from commercial remote sensing to space resources.

Despite not reaching the moon, NASA and other organizations sending payloads on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander claim they still obtained valuable data from the mission.

Efforts by scientists to use a Mars rover to collect samples are continuing even as NASA wraps up a new assessment of when and how those samples will be brought back to Earth.

NASA is restructuring a major series of Earth science missions, postponing some and relying more on international partners for others to reduce costs.

A Crew Dragon spacecraft landed in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Florida, at 5:47 a.m. Eastern on March 12, bringing back a crew from the International Space Station after more than six months.

NASA states that its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal is limited by the second year of a debt-ceiling agreement that places a cap on overall spending, resulting in delays, potential cancellations, and broader uncertainty for many NASA science programs.

Congress has passed a final fiscal year 2024 spending bill that provides, in some cases, significantly less funding than requested for civil space programs.

The first crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner has slipped from late April to early May because of International Space Station schedule conflicts and not due to any issues with the spacecraft itself.

A NASA safety panel reports that the agency is examining problems with the configuration of the side hatch of the Orion spacecraft that could impact its ability to be opened in an abnormal situation.

This Friday, ground mission control ordered the current stationed astronaut crew at the International Space Station to head for the escape capsules as a safety precaution in light of a threatening space junk flyby. This is the third time in 12 years an ISS crew had to take this extreme measure. The space debris in […]