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While Boeing's passenger planes glitch, NASA is entrusting the company's spaceship with 2 astronauts' lives
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft isn't totally safe from the cost-cutting, KPI-focused company culture…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA had an ambitious $2 billion plan to refuel satellites in orbit using robotic arms. A decade later, it's in shambles.
The OSAM-1 aimed to use a robotic arm to slice open hatches and unscrew fuel caps to top up satelli…
Matthew Loh
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NASA-ISRO joint radar satellite could face a seven-month delay and cost $36 million more bearing the impact of COVID-19
The launch was initially scheduled for January 2023 abroad ISRO's GSLV Mark-II launch vehicle. …
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Text messages suggest Donald Trump looked into funding the controversial Arizona election audit
In an April text exchange, a former Trump campaign official and the audit spokesman discussed possi…
Erin Snodgrass
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NASA and SpaceX's plan to land humans on the moon could be delayed 'several years' after 2024, the space agency's watchdog says
SpaceX's Starship spaceship and NASA's new spacesuits still need to be developed and tested, per th…
Kate Duffy
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NASA's only plan to return astronauts to the moon after nearly 50 years just got slammed by an internal audit
"We believe a lack of action by senior leadership in both organizations to correct identified probl…
Dave Mosher
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NASA will retire its new mega-rocket if SpaceX or Blue Origin can safely launch its own powerful rockets
Musk also plans to modify an upper stage of his blockbuster Falcon 9 rocket into a "mini-BFR ship" …
Dave Mosher
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Congress and Trump are running out of time to fix a $100-billion investment in the sky, NASA auditor says
"[R]esearch for at least 6 of 20 human health risks requiring the ISS for testing and 4 of 40 techn…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX cargo launches may soon cost 50% more - but it's still an offer NASA can't refuse
NASA set up its first competitions for contracts in 2006 - years before the shuttle program's retir…
Dave Mosher
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NASA may pay Boeing as a middleman to launch 5 astronauts on Russian spacecraft
A NASA representative declined to provide Business Insider with an estimate, but noted "prices will…
Dave Mosher
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NASA's future missions to Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and beyond could hit a nuclear roadblock within the next decade
Radiation is a related issue: Many planets and moons whip up powerful electromagnetic fields, which…
Dave Mosher
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Russia is squeezing NASA for more than $3.3 billion - and there's little anyone can do about it
"Had the Agency met its original goal of securing commercial crew transportation by calendar year 2…
Dave Mosher
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A NASA scientist explains why this 'Star Wars' planet is just like a real-life moon
"Star Trek's" Romulus and Remus are a double-planet system, which means the two plan…
Anjelica Oswald
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Boeing's ambitions of challenging SpaceX are hanging by a thread
A series of problems on Starliner's maiden crewed voyage has left the spacecraft, along with two as…
Tom Carter
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Elon Musk is looking for trillions in government waste, and defense is a massive potential target
Defense is the largest area of discretionary spending in the federal budget, and Elon Musk has been…
Jake Epstein,Grace Kay
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America's most boring job is on the brink of extinction
Inside the desperate campaign to get Gen Z to become accountants
Emmalyse Brownstein
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Airline collision close calls are on the rise partly because there's not enough people working the high-paid, high-stress job that prevents them
An air traffic controller shortage is part of the reason so many planes nearly collide. The job pay…
Juliana Kaplan,Hannah Towey,T…
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Results: Sen. Mark Kelly defeats Republican Blake Masters in critical Arizona Senate contest
Sen. Mark Kelly's win against Trump-backed Republican Blake Masters put Democrats a seat away from …
Warren Rojas
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Sen. Mark Kelly, one of the most vulnerable freshman Democrats, faces off against Blake Masters in Arizona for a seat that could decide control of the Senate
Arizona's US Senate race between Kelly and Masters is already one of the most expensive federal rac…