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A report by NASA’s inspector general revealed new details about issues with the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield and other problems that caused delays in its first crewed launch.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson informed a House committee that budget constraints resulted in cuts to agency programs and urged them to allocate funds for a space station deorbit vehicle in a supplemental funding bill.

BAE Systems, the former Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., won a $365 million contract May 1 to develop an air quality sensor for a U.S. geostationary weather satellites.

The first crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is a step closer to launch after completing a major pre-launch review on April 25.

A NASA small satellite mission to Mars is scheduled to launch in late September on the first flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, if the rocket is ready in time.

Rocket Lab launched a South Korean smallsat and a NASA solar sail experiment on the company’s fifth flight of the year April 23.

Companies ranging from Blue Origin to a startup are proposing concepts for missions to visit an asteroid before it makes a very close flyby of Earth in five years.

NASA is refining its response to a decade-long survey for biological and physical sciences in space, striving to balance ambitious science goals with limited budgets.

NASA has given the green light for the development of a mission to Saturn's moon Titan despite the fact that the cost has doubled since the agency selected the mission almost five years ago.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson defended the agency’s plans to reduce or cancel some agency programs at a House hearing, assigning much of the blame to Congress.