Mars, NASA and Blue Origin
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Scientists suspect iron meteorites might be able to resist erosion on Mars, which may explain why some appear perched on flat ground rather than embedded in craters. In other cases, a crater may have weathered away long ago, leaving only the rock behind.
The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together.
NASA officials reacted strongly against allegations that federal employees were called back to work to dismantle laboratories and move equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Summer Worden of Kansas pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents about claims her astronaut ex-wife hacked her bank account from space.
NASA’s presumptive next leader wants to outsource more of the space agency’s interplanetary science. The newly launched ESCAPADE mission to Mars offers a sanity check for those plans
Maryland legislators came to the defense of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center amid rumors that buildings and laboratories were shuttered in the shutdown.