Amazon launches its first internet satellites to compete against SpaceX’s Starlinks
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with a payload of 27 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet satellites lifts off from Launch Complex 41 at…
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A whistleblower’s disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
The DOGE team may have taken data related to union organizing and labor complaints and hid its tracks, according to a whistleblower. Charlotte Gomez for…
5 takeaways about NPR’s reporting on the whistleblower report about DOGE at the NLRB
Charlotte Gomez for NPR When a team of advisers from President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the headquarters of the National Labor…
SpaceX launches historic privately funded mission around Earth’s poles
Fram2 mission astronauts who will be first to circle the Earth from pole to pole: From left to right: pilot Rabea Rogge, Mission specialist and…
A lawyer who represented SpaceX looks to downsize federal contracting watchdog
The U.S. Department of Labor building on March 26, 2020, in Washington, D,C. A federal contracting watchdog within the Department of Labor will now be…
Crew arrives on ISS to replace astronauts ‘stranded’ in space for 9 months
This image made from video by NASA shows astronauts waving after a four-person crew arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, March 16. AP/NASA…
NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts to the ISS
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft launches from the Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2025 in Cape…
NASA’s latest space launch: ‘Stranded’ astronauts and messy politics
Astronauts Suni Williams (lower) and Butch Wilmore (left) were originally supposed to return to Earth in June of last year. Instead, they’ve been part of…
SpaceX’s latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion
SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP Nearly…
Is Trump preparing to cancel America’s ride back to the moon?
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the Orion spacecraft aboard the mobile launcher as it rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch…