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NASA's long, fraught, over-budget path back to the moon

Future heat shields will feature design changes to fix the issue —specifically, a more permeable layer of outer material — NASA officials said.

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NASA charts $20 billion bold step to living on the Moon

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NASA’s ambitious timeline to establish a $20B moon base

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NASA plans nuclear powered spacecraft to explore Mars by 2028

NASA could be sending a nuclear-powered spacecraft to explore the skies of Mars in two years.

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NASA to spend $20 billion on moon base, cancel orbiting lunar station

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NASA unveils plan to build new moon base

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NASA telescopes team up for clearest view of Saturn ever. See images

Observations from two of NASA's most prolific space telescopes have revealed Saturn and its iconic rings in unprecedented detail.

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NASA reveals stunning new Saturn images with unseen details

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Incredible new NASA images reveal Saturn in a new light —all thanks to a telescope team-up

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NASA's reimagined lunar plans include $20 billion moon base

NASA unveiled plans to build a moon base near the lunar south pole that will one day allow for American astronauts to have a permanent presence.

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NASA releases stunning new Saturn images—and the gas giant has never looked so good

New images captured by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes show Saturn in both visible and infrared light

Smithsonian Magazine

NASA Aims to Launch the World’s First Planet-Hopping Spacecraft Powered by Nuclear Fission

NASA has big, potentially revolutionary plans coming up. On March 24, the agency announced that it wants to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars by the end of 2028. If successful, it would be the first probe to use nuclear propulsion to travel beyond Earth’s orbit.

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NASA astronaut shares alien-like photo from space, internet loses it

A NASA astronaut recently sent the internet into a frenzy when he posted an alien-looking photo on social media. The photo posted by Don Pettit depicts what appears to be an egg-shaped object with tentacles spouting out of it prompting followers who may have seen too many science fiction movies to assume extra terrestrial life.