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NASA

• 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 […]
• NASA to Compete Contract for Jet Propulsion Laboratory Management
  May 22, 2026 by Cheryl Warner
  NASA announced plans Friday to compete the next contract for managing and operating the agency’s federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in Southern California at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), to ensure continued accountability and strong value for U.S. taxpayers. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has managed the laboratory since its inception in […]

SpaceNews

• Blue Origin completes investigation into New Glenn launch failure
  May 23, 2026
• SpaceX launches first Starship V3
  May 23, 2026
• Space Force awards Viasat, SES $437 million for military satellite network
  May 22, 2026
• NASA unveils sweeping reorganization
  May 22, 2026
• Leveraging AUKUS and southern geography: building Australia’s dual-use space infrastructure for strategic resilience 
  May 22, 2026

ArsTechnica

• 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
• JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away
  by Jacek Krywko
• NASA's Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world
  by Stephen Clark