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NASA audit puts Boeing's Starliner under an even bigger microscope: When will it fly astronauts again?

July 2, 2026
It’s unclear when Boeing will be able to send more astronauts to the International Space Station, a new NASA audit warns. Technical issues with Boeing Starliner’s spacecraft, across two uncrewed flights and a two-astronaut test mission known as Crew Flight Test (CFT), come under scrutiny in a new report about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program from the agency’s Office of the Inspector General…
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America 250: Here's how to find a star whose light began its journey toward Earth in 1776

July 1, 2026
The United States’ 250th birthday is right around the corner and what better way to celebrate than by looking for a star whose light began its journey to Earth around the time the Declaration of Independence was signed? Starlight travels through the near-perfect vacuum of space at a staggering 186,282 miles (299,791 kilometers) per second — or the speed of light. Even at this pace, it can…
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A SpaceX rocket will slam into the moon this August. Will we be able to see it?

June 30, 2026
Earth’s moon is due for a human-made impact this August courtesy of a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage. The Falcon 9 upper stage is left over from the launch that sent Firefly’s Blue Ghost-1 lander to the moon on Jan. 15, 2025 by way of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Also sent moonward on that flight was the Hakuto-R Mission 2, called Resilience, a robotic lunar…
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NASA's Perseverance rover just ran a marathon on Mars. Could you do the same?

June 19, 2026
Could you run a marathon on Mars? And also — would you want to? NASA’s Perseverance rover just completed an off-Earth marathon: It has now traveled more than 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) across the Martian landscape after landing in February 2021, according to the mission team. The only other rover to complete a marathon on the Red Planet is Opportunity, which took over 11 years to traverse…
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