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NASA to Discuss Psyche Asteroid Mission

June 24, 2022
. NASA to Discuss Psyche Asteroid Mission The teleconference will be livestreamed today. NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT) Friday to provide an update on the agency’s mission to study the Psyche asteroid. Audio of the briefing will livestream on the agency’s website. Teleconference participants include: Lori Glaze, director…
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Dress rehearsal for NASA’s deep-space rocket cut short by mere seconds

June 21, 2022
After three previous aborted attempts, NASA successfully fueled its new massive deep-space rocket, the Space Launch System, for the first time on Monday — completing a critical milestone ahead of the vehicle’s first flight. However, there was a shadow over the achievement. The fueling was part of an elaborate dress rehearsal that ended 20 seconds earlier than NASA had planned, and it’s…
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SpaceX firings likely violate US labor law, experts say

June 17, 2022
On Friday, SpaceX fired a group of employees involved in crafting an open letter to corporate leaders that criticized CEO Elon Musk — and labor lawyers now say the firings may have violated US labor law. The letter circulated Thursday calling for stronger anti-harassment…
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Hundreds of SpaceX employees signed letter denouncing Elon Musk’s behavior

June 17, 2022
It took less than a day and a half for more than 400 SpaceX employees to sign onto an open letter criticizing CEO Elon Musk after it was posted and shared by some of their co-workers in an internal chat. Just 32 hours after it was shared, the internal landing page for the document was taken offline, around the same time that a group of employees was fired for their involvement in crafting and…
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NASA’s ECOSTRESS Sees Las Vegas Streets Turn Up the Heat

June 16, 2022
.An instrument on the space station documented how built and natural surfaces responded to record heat in Las Vegas. On June 10, Las Vegas reached a record daily high temperature of 109 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius), and temperatures of the ground surface…
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NASA, Partner Establish New Research Group for Mars Sample Return Program

June 15, 2022
.Sixteen scientists from the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Japan have been chosen to help future samples from the Red Planet achieve their full potential. NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), its partner in the Mars Sample Return Program, have established a new group of researchers to maximize the scientific potential of Mars rock and sediment samples that would be returned to Earth for…
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