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Claim that NASA astronauts get $66K starting salary doesn't add up

The figure was from 2019, and was a minimum as opposed to the starting salary. By 2025, NASA astronauts had starting salaries ...
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How Budget Cuts and Infrastructure Shifts Are Rewriting ISS Mission Playbooks

Is the future of U.S. human spaceflight quietly sabotaged by one budget proposal? While the four-astronaut Crew-11 mission ...

NASA mission to return to the Moon and the danger astronauts face

Organisations like NASA and NOAA keep an eye on the sun to forecast potential sources of danger. If a solar flare or Coronal ...

Former astronaut twin brothers Mark and Scott Kelly on NASA cuts and challenges of being on ISS

Mark and Scott Kelly, twin brothers and former NASA astronauts, spoke to "CBS Mornings" about how the agency is set to lose ...

NASA astronaut set to blast off to space with special cards from father waiting for her at ISS

SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled for liftoff Thursday, carrying a crew to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Zena ...
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Kate Rubins, 1st astronaut to sequence DNA in space, leaves NASA

NASA astronaut Kathleen “Kate” Rubins has retired from the space agency after 16 years, two missions on the International ...

NASA workforce cuts raise fears about safety for space missions

NASA and SpaceX are scheduled to launch another crew of astronauts to the International Space Station on Thursday in the sort of mission that has given the U.S. space program an aura of triumph. But ...

Crew-10 astronauts to depart ISS: How they set stage for ‘stuck’ Starliner crew to leave

The Crew-10 mission reached the International Space Station March 15 in a crucial step for the Boeing Starliner astronauts to ...