Students get a flying start into space by working with NASA

For high school and college-level students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics , the unique learning ...
AZ Central

Students get a flying start into space by working with NASA

Hands-on is the core theme in all the programs offered by the Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) where learning becomes doing. Annually, over 2,000 students get real-world experience in space ...
Astronomy

NASA’s JPL lays off 550 employees

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced the layoff of approximately 550 employees, constituting 11% of its workforce, as part of an ongoing center reorganization initiated in July. JPL ...
Reuters

Former NASA nominee Jared Isaacman in talks to become agency's chief

Oct 14 - Jared Isaacman, the private astronaut and Elon Musk ally who was removed from consideration to lead NASA earlier this year, met with Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy last week as a ...
Forbes

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Cutting 550 Jobs—But Not Due To Government Shutdown, Director Says

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off about 550 workers, the California research lab said, in a restructuring move that its director told employees was not related to the ongoing government ...
The Hill

Bill Nye visits DC to fight proposed cuts to NASA budget

Former television host Bill Nye “The Science Guy” visited Capitol Hill on Monday to advocate against President Trump’s budget for NASA. He’s the CEO of the Planetary Society, a non-profit space ...
CNN

With 15,000 workers furloughed and funds uncertain, NASA focuses on one mission — return to the moon

Some 15,000 NASA employees were sent home this week as a government shutdown began, halting work across much of an agency already grappling with budget cuts and widespread job losses. But at least one ...
Wired

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Wins Contract to Take NASA Rover to the Moon

The Amazon founder’s space company will transport NASA's VIPER rover to the lunar south pole—if it proves capable of delivering a payload to the moon in an upcoming mission. NASA’s VIPER lunar rover ...