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Four astronauts flew around the moon last week for the first time since 1972. The engineers who built Orion earned every bit of that milestone. The $4 billion price tag for a rocket that then sinks into the ocean is a different story entirely.
By Crash Davis · 3 min read
Congress blocked NASA's proposed 24% science budget cut, and the headlines called it a victory. Then NASA quietly dissolved its independent scientific advisory groups. The budget fight was the distraction.
By Crash Davis · 3 min read
Rubin issued 800,000 sky-change alerts on its first night of operations and will scale to 7 million per night. The speed is what other telescopes cannot match. So is the threat: satellite megaconstellations could already be erasing up to half the data.
By Vera Santos · 3 min read