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NASA

• Jaclyn Kagey Shapes Humanity’s Return to the Moon 
  May 26, 2026 by Sumer Loggins
  For Jaclyn Kagey, preparing astronauts to put boots on the Moon is part of her daily work.  As the Artemis extravehicular activity lead in NASA’s Flight Operations Directorate, Kagey plays a central role in preparing astronauts to safely explore the lunar surface.  During Artemis missions, astronauts will explore the Moon’s South Pole, a region never visited by humans, paving the way for future deep space exploration.   Kagey helps define […]
• Call for Creatives: NASA Seeks Help Illuminating Mission Storytelling
  May 22, 2026 by Lauren E. Low
  As NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity, the agency is looking for partners to share mission stories covering Artemis Moon missions, nuclear propulsion, aeronautics, and more. NASA published an Announcement for Proposals on May 21 asking filmmakers, documentarians, songwriters, storytellers, poets, and others to submit proposals to partner […]
• NASA Sets Coverage for Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station
  May 22, 2026 by Jennifer M. Dooren
  NASA will provide live coverage on Wednesday, May 27, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:15 a.m. EDT and last roughly five hours. Watch NASA’s live coverage beginning at 9:45 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn […]
• Webb Studies Star Clusters
  May 22, 2026 by HQ Web Team
  This near-infrared image released on May 6, 2026, shows a section of one of the spiral arms of Messier 51 (M51). M51 is one of four nearby galaxies observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in a study of nearly 9,000 star clusters. Data from the study shows that more massive star clusters emerge more […]
• Keeping NASA Flying: Ground Crews Ensure Aircraft Readiness
  May 22, 2026 by Dede Dinius
  From high‑speed research flights to high‑altitude science campaigns, NASA depends on aircraft that perform at their best and the ground crews who keep them mission ready. At NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, specially trained maintenance crews are essential to keeping the agency’s aircraft flying safely and reliably. This year, NASA added two […]

SpaceNews

• Exolaunch and SEOPS purchase Falcon 9 launches for dedicated rideshare missions
  May 26, 2026
• Northern Norway is ready to launch. EU Space Regulation — and its new Arctic policy – is not.
  May 25, 2026
• Shenzhou-23 crew arrives at Tiangong as China maps path to 2030 lunar landing
  May 24, 2026
• NASA to add missions to SpaceX commercial crew contract
  May 24, 2026
• Blue Origin completes investigation into New Glenn launch failure
  May 23, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it
  by Federica Sgorbissa
• SpaceX's Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight
  by Stephen Clark
• China’s shark finning could lead to US seafood sanctions
  by Johnny Sturgeon, Inside Climate News
• Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid
  by John Timmer
• Ground system issue scrubs first launch of SpaceX's Starship V3 rocket
  by Stephen Clark