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NASA

• Drought Parches Florida
  April 7, 2026
  The state was unusually dry for much of 2025, but the intensity of the drought has ratcheted up since January 2026.
• NASA’s Artemis II Crew Eclipses Record for Farthest Human Spaceflight
  April 6, 2026 by Jessica Taveau
  Editor’s note: This release was updated at 7:28 p.m. EDT on April 6, 2026, to reflect Orion’s final closest approach to the lunar surface from about 4,070 miles to about 4,067 miles. NASA also updated the farthest distance Orion will travel. Finally, NASA also made changes at 10 p.m. to the statements about crew firsts. […]
• NASA’s Northrop Grumman CRS-24 Mission Overview 
  April 6, 2026 by Mark A. Garcia
  NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 mission, or Northrop Grumman CRS-24, will deliver approximately 11,000 pounds of science and supplies to the International Space Station. This mission will be the second flight of the Cygnus XL, the larger, more cargo-capable version of the company’s solar-powered spacecraft. 
• Night Sky Network Celebrates Artemis II
  April 6, 2026
  Today, the crew of Artemis II reaches a milestone, traveling farther than any humans in recorded history, as they orbit the far side of the Moon, roughly 4,000 miles above the lunar surface.  You can watch this historic broadcast on NASA’s YouTube channel today, April 6, 2026, at 10 AM Pacific (1 PM Eastern), or on NASA+. […]
• Grants
  April 6, 2026 by Zachary J. Pohto
  Grants Status Requests To submit a request, visit NASA General Information Request Form and complete the form. You will receive an automated email with the most commonly requested grant status information. Important Instructions: How to Fill Out the Form: Memorandum for NASA Grantee Community Guidance Regarding OMB Memorandum M-25-14 and Recent Temporary Restraining Orders Update […]

SpaceNews

• Artemis 2 swings around the moon
  April 7, 2026
• Moog Highlights Growing Satellite Bus Capabilities with Full‑Scale METEOR Reveal at Space Symposium
  April 6, 2026
• FOSSA targets Japan’s defense market as larger smallsats expand capabilities
  April 6, 2026
• The moon base has a hardware plan. It needs a software strategy, too.
  April 6, 2026
• Seagate Space Signs MOU with Firefly Aerospace to Collaborate on Offshore Launch Infrastructure for Alpha
  April 6, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Trump's next budget once again calls for massive cuts to science
  by John Timmer
• Trump proposes steep cut to NASA budget as astronauts head for the Moon
  by Stephen Clark
• Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• "Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds
  by Kyle Orland
• Male octopuses guided through mating by female hormones
  by Jacek Krywko