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NASA cancels its lunar water-seeking rover mission with the VIPER rover, citing cost overruns and launch delays, after spending $450 million on the project. 2024-07-17
NASA announces that an approximately 15 x ft section of the Space Shuttle "Challenger" has been found by divers in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the first debris from the shuttle to be found since 1996. 2022-11-10
Led overall by researchers at Aix-Marseille Université in France using NASA's "Kepler Space Telescope", "Nature Astronomy" publishes observations of what may be a new exoplanet named K2-229b, whose attributes may resemble the planet of Mercury (hot, metallic, and dense). 2018-03-27
NASA confirms that 1,284 objects discovered by its Kepler spacecraft are in fact exoplanets. 2016-05-10
For the first time, NASA emailed hardware, a wrench, to the International Space Station that was fabricated on the ISS's Zero Gravity 3D printer. 2014-12-16
NASA records the brightest lunar meteor impact yet observed. 2013-05-17
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity extends evidence of water-bearing minerals when studying the rock Tintina. 2013-03-19
The European Space Agency officially joins a project to build a Service Module based on their Automated Transfer Vehicle for NASA’s Orion, a spacecraft to carry astronauts into deep space. [http:--www.nasa.gov-exploration-systems-mpcv-orion_feature_011613.html (NASA)] [http:--www.esa.int-Our_Activities-Human_Spaceflight-Research-ESA_workhorse_to_power_NASA_s_Orion_spacecraft (ESA)] [http:--en.ria.ru-science-20130117-178831167-ESA_Joins_NASAs_Orion_Spacecraft_Project.html (RIA Novosti)]date=August 2019 2013-01-17
NASA announces plans for a Space Launch System to replace the Space Shuttle program with the first flight tentatively scheduled for 2017. 2011-09-14
More than 1,200 NASA employees are laid off despite a $19 billion funding budget passed by the United States Congress earlier in the week. 2010-10-1