Bill Nye on importance of funding NASA
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With 15,000 workers furloughed and funds uncertain, NASA focuses on one mission — return to the moon
The space agency has been grappling with budget uncertainties and a talent exodus even before the shutdown. But NASA’s moon program has remained largely untouched.
Scientists, including 90s-kid-hero and Washington, D.C., native Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” are pushing Congress to protect funding for NASA.
NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific discoveries.
The U.S. government shut down the same day Juno's last mission extension expired, putting the status of the mission in limbo.
President Trump’s proposed NASA budget looks to drop 41 science missions including 19 that are operational in space. The new space weather missions, though, are more closely tied to his
In 2022, NASA dropped a full-scale aircraft fuselage from a height of 35 feet, destroying it well beyond expectations. NASA recently demonstrated a much improved version.