At #NASA, after repeated nudges by #Musk, the agency is being squeezed to turn its focus to #Mars, allowing #SpaceX to pursue federal contracts to deliver the first humans to the distant planet.
And at the #FAA & the White House itself, #Starlink satellite dishes have recently been installed, to expand federal government internet access.
https://fedi.video/videos/watch/d86a66bd-84c0-4f3d-8e61-59cfe0442e91
No Shortage of Dreams. Love this space art from the seventies, featured in David S. F. Portree's post on the enormous Solar Power Satellite (SPS) fleet.
Image credit: NASA
Nasa drops plan to land first woman and first person of color on the moon
Promise was central plank to space agency’s Artemis program, which is scheduled to return humans to the lunar surface in 2027
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/nasa-drops-plan-first-woman-moon
“The move by Nasa is particularly notable because the creation of the Artemis program, and decision to land the first woman and person of color on the moon, were made in 2019 during the first Trump administration, according to the science journal Ars Technica.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/nasa-drops-plan-first-woman-moon
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its 23rd close approach of the Sun tomorrow March 22, 2025 at 22:42 UTC.
At perihelion, it will be at a distance of just 6.1 million km from the solar surface, traveling at a speed of 692,000 km/h, matching its previous record set during perihelion 22 on Dec 24, 2024.
For comparison, the perihelion of planet Mercury is at 45.3 mil km.
https://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe
#Parker #ParkerSolarProbe #NASA
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The NASA Parker Solar Probe will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the sizzling solar atmosphere. @AssociatedPress reports:
https://apnews.com/article/nasa-parker-solar-probe-sun-flyby-584fa9a8e99cbe0a1cecf0f037ac1e34
