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The Wall Street Journal |
Elon Musk made a call late last year to help roll out his plan for humanity’s path beyond Earth.
CNN |
For months, the space agency and its commercial and international partners have faced uncertainty about how the Trump administration may seek to realign NASA’s missions to focus on Mars, rather than ...
U.S. News & World Report |
"We will prioritize sending American astronauts to Mars," Isaacman will say in prepared testimony. "Along the way, we will inevitably have the capabilities to return to the moon and determine the sci...
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An enigmatic Japanese billionaire picked 10 artists to fly to the moon, only to pull the plug. Now they’re figuring out what’s next.
The space company of entrepreneur and White House adviser Elon Musk has received a multibillion-dollar contract from the US government.
Known as the Rocket City, Huntsville has long been a focal point of US aerospace and defence. It is home to the Marshall Space Flight Centre – the second largest Nasa field centre in the US – where the Saturn rocket was built that propelled Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon under the Apollo programme.
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Futurism on MSNIncoming Head of NASA Puts SpaceX in Its Place: "They Work for Us, Not the Other Way Around"SpaceX astronaut and incoming NASA head Jared Isaacman took a notable turn away from the space firm that enabled both of his trips into orbit.
Focused around Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starbase In Boca Chica, Texas, Julien Elie’s intelligent, multifaceted documentary Shifting Baselines constructs a vivid mosaic of the romance and the hazards of space exploration.
Silicon Valley sources — who take credit for the idea of buying Greenland — view it as deeply tied to America’s ambitions in space and information technology, and a critical “play for the
Trump's nominee for NASA Administration told Senate staff it's a matter of national importance that U.S. astronauts return to the lunar surface before China.
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The New Republic on MSNElon Musk’s DOGE Defense Cuts Won’t Affect This Key PersonDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans to cut $580 million in “wasteful spending” at the Pentagon, but the major slashes to grants and contracts will spare Elon Musk’s SpaceX, The Intercept reported Thursday.
During the three-hour hearing, Isaacman, President Trump's nominee to lead the space agency, said he believes Americans need to return to the lunar surface as fast as possible. Still fears persist that the new Trump administration might implement cancellations and drastically shift the focus to Mars.
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Futurism on MSNIncoming Head of NASA Defies Elon Musk on Order to Abandon Moon ProgramBillionaire fighter jet pilot-turned-SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman is attending a confirmation hearing to field questions from Congress. Despite plenty of concerns over his considerable conflict of interest,