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NASA's Perseverance just broke the off-world driving record, while mostly steering itself

The Perseverance rover's first selfie, snapped with the WATSON camera on its robotic arm, on April 6, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech ...
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NASA’s moon mission with four drones moves closer to spacecraft production in 2028

Firefly Aerospace has completed a key spacecraft design review for a NASA mission that ...
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NASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, Exploration

Caltech graduate students and friends carry out their first rocket firing on Halloween, 1936, in a dry riverbed along which JPL would rise. Their work helped make possible missions such as ...
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NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory unit of NASA this week will lay off about 550 employees — more than 10% of JPL's workforce — as part of a restructuring. The job cuts "are not related to the current ...
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Shakeup at JPL? Control over iconic NASA center could change for 1st time in nearly 100 years

NASA plans to open up competition for control over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which has historically been operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). This move is part of ...
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Pedal to the Metal: NASA’s Psyche Heads Toward Asteroid Belt

On Sept. 28, the spacecraft began to use its propulsion system nearly continuously, pausing just once each week to check in ...
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Lays Off 550 Employees in Reorganization

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is laying off hundreds more employees as the prestigious research and development center moves to create a “leaner infrastructure” and cut costs with a tightened ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Has ‘Blown Well Past’ Expectations, Sets New Space Exploration Record

Perseverance traveled 28.1 miles, surpassing the distance Opportunity covered during its nearly 15-year mission ...
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NASA's Iconic Jet Propulsion Laboratory Could Change Hands for the First Time

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: David McNew/Getty Images) NASA has announced it will not renew its contract between its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) ...
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NASA’s Curiosity rover reveals a spectacular new view of Mars with a mystery on the horizon

NASA’s Curiosity rover has revealed a spectacular new view of mysterious, wind-carved cliffs on Mars that may hold evidence ...
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NASA announces new space telescope ‘PRIMA’ to launch in 2033

On the heels of launching its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA announced a new observatory, the Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics or PRIMA. The agency said Wednesday PRIMA was moving ...