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NASA

• I Am Artemis: Erik Richards
  March 27, 2026 by Korine Powers
  Listen to this audio excerpt from Erik Richards, Near Space Network Mission Manager: For Erik Richards, supporting NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission to the Moon and back is the culmination of a career spent helping spacecraft communicate with Earth.  Like many kids who grew up at the height of the Space Shuttle Program, Richards dreamed of spaceflight — a dream that eventually took him from the remote McMurdo Station in Antarctica to […]
• NASA Selects Intuitive Machines to Deliver Artemis Science, Tech to Moon
  March 27, 2026 by Ivry Artis
  NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston, $180.4 million to deliver NASA-funded science and technology to the lunar surface as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis program. This lunar delivery, which includes seven payloads — five of them NASA’s — is expected to increase understanding of the chemical composition […]
• NASA’s Environment and Energy “Blue Marble” Awards Categories
  March 27, 2026 by Amanda Hirsch
  Category I: NASA Environmental Quality Award Recognizes excellence in environmental management and planning, including stewardship of natural and cultural resources. This category highlights achievements in compliance, conservation, remediation, communication, and environmental information management, and the development of strong stakeholder partnerships. Category II: NASA Award for Excellence in Project or Program Execution Honors efforts that reduce […]
• NISAR’s View of Mount Rainier
  March 27, 2026
  Description This image captured by U.S.-Indian Earth satellite NISAR on Nov. 10, 2025, shows Washington’s Mount Rainier. The image is cropped from a much larger swath spanning the Pacific Northwest on a cloudy day; NISAR’s L-band SAR instrument is able to peer through the clouds at the surface below. In Pacific Northwest imagery from the […]
• NISAR Views Mount St. Helens
  March 27, 2026
  Description This image captured by U.S.-Indian Earth satellite NISAR on Nov. 10, 2025, shows Washington’s Mount St. Helens. The image is cropped from a much larger swath spanning the Pacific Northwest on a cloudy day; NISAR’s L-band SAR instrument is able to peer through the clouds at the surface below. In Pacific Northwest imagery from […]

SpaceNews

• Artemis 2 astronauts arrive at KSC
  March 28, 2026
• Commercial Space Federation (CSF) Welcomes Two New Associate Members
  March 27, 2026
• ESA to decide by June on Europe’s Gateway contributions 
  March 27, 2026
• India’s Bellatrix raises $20 million following overseas expansion drive
  March 27, 2026
• Building a hypersonic pathway to orbit with Mark Bigham
  March 27, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Rocket Report: Russia reopens gateway to ISS; Cape Canaveral hosts missile test
  by Stephen Clark
• Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• Damaged church floor may have revealed the grave of the fourth musketeer
  by Kiona N. Smith
• 2026's historic snow drought is bad news for the West
  by Alejandro N. Flores, The Conversation
• Here is NASA's plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars
  by Stephen Clark