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NASA Cancels VIPER’s Trip to the Moon After Spending $450 Million on Rover

NASA’s boxy four-wheeled rover won’t make it to the Moon after all, due to development delays and mounting costs that have apparently pushed the space agency to call off its ice-hunting mission.

Ars Technica · 2h

NASA built a Moon rover but can’t afford to get it to the launch pad

In this case, the projected remaining expenses for VIPER would have resulted in either having to cancel or disrupt many other missions in our Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) line." NASA has terminated science missions after development delays and cost overruns before,

Popular Science · 4h

NASA’s VIPER rover won’t be going to the moon after all

The cancellation of VIPER represents the latest chapter in the rocky history of NASA’s attempts to survey the moon’s polar resources. VIPER was originally planned as a replacement for the Resource Prospector rover,

NASA, SpaceX

Mashable on MSN · 12h

NASA reveals how it will plunge the space station into Earth's ocean

After breaking apart and largely vaporizing while falling through Earth's atmosphere, the leftover charred chunks will plunge into a remote ocean, and then sink to the seafloor. The grand deorbit of the aging laboratory will happen around 2030, and NASA has revealed how.

Business Insider · 21h

SpaceX is building a superpowered spaceship to scrap the International Space Station for NASA

NASA wants SpaceX to help end the International Space Station and push it into the ocean. They plan to do it with a superpowered Dragon spacecraft.

The Washington Post · 23h

How NASA and SpaceX will bring down the space station when it's retired

SpaceX will use a powerful, souped-up capsule to shove the International Space Station out of orbit once time is up for the sprawling lab

NASA, Missy Elliott and Venus

Forbes · 2h

NASA Beams Missy Elliot Hip-Hop Song To Venus

"The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" traveled 158 million miles to Venus, a planet known as Earth's evil twin. This is the first time NASA has sent a hip-hop song to deep space.

Houston Chronicle · 1d

Why NASA selected a Missy Elliott song to send to Venus

It marks the first time a hip-hop song has been transmitted into space. "I still can't believe I'm going out of this world with NASA through the Deep Space Network when 'The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)' becomes the first ever hip-hop song to transmit to space!

CNN on MSN · 1d

NASA transmits a Missy Elliott song to Venus

Missy Elliott’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” took nearly 14 minutes to get transmitted to space in a first for hip-hop.

NASA, meteor

UPI · 1d

NASA: Meteor flew over New York City, Statue of Liberty

A meteor traveling 34,000 mph blasted through Earth's atmosphere before breaking up above midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning, NASA said.

Live Science · 1d

'Rare daylight fireball' meteor over NYC created loud boom near Statue of Liberty

Reports of a daylight fireball and loud booms across New York City and New Jersey suggest a meteor entered the atmosphere above the city and traveled west at 38,000 mph, NASA says.

Cleveland.com · 3h

‘Daylight fireball’ soars over NYC, Statue of Liberty, NASA says

NASA originally said the fireball was first sighted at an altitude of 49 miles above Upper Bay, just east of Greenville Yard. Moving east at 34,000 miles per hour, the meteor descended at a steep angle,

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NASA sounding rocket launches, studies heating of sun's active regions

Investigators at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will use observations from a recently-launched ...

What it was like to spend a year in NASA’s Mars base simulation

Most humans nowadays do not know what it’s like to live like that. They don’t know what it’s like to live offline.' ...

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NASA updates meteor over NYC track saying it originated over the city then moved west over NJ

The path of the meteor that passed over New York City Tuesday morning has been updated by NASA. The space agency now says ...

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NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian rock

Scientists were stunned on May 30 when a rock that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove over cracked open to reveal something ...

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NASA Signs US-Saudi Arabia Space Deal

U.S. partnership, the two countries now extending their historic partnership into the realm of space exploration.

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NASA map captures extent of punishing heat in U.S.

The U.S. has contended with unrelenting temperatures this summer, and a map from NASA paints a dire picture of the scale of ...

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NASA awards $348,000 to Interlune to test technology for processing moon soil

Interlune has received a $348,000 grant from NASA to test its system for processing moon soil on a series of reduced-gravity ...

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