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Casey Dreier

The ISS partnership remains stable...for now.

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The robotic explorers of our Cosmos are truly impressive, as showcased by several spacecraft this week.

Casey Dreier

The National Space Society and The Planetary Society jointly argue for funding the asteroid-hunting NEO Surveyor mission.

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Celebrate 61 years of humans in space, and take a look at the latest news from our exploration of the cosmos.

Casey Dreier

The Biden Administration proposed $26 billion for NASA — we break down the potential impacts to human exploration and planetary science.

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Space exploration comes at a cost, but the investment is always worthwhile.

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Pluto, everyone’s favorite former planet, takes center stage in this week’s Downlink.

Casey Dreier

A future with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.

Casey Dreier

115 members of The Planetary Society from 33 states met with 161 congressional offices to support space science and exploration in 2022.

Casey Dreier

Find annual expenditures, charts, and comparisons for NASA's expenditures on the James Webb Space Telescope, including contributions from the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency over the same period.

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Saturn’s icy moon invites further study, and The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft celebrates an anniversary.

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Reminisce about the influential Viking missions, picture seeing your all-time favorites on your wall, and get excited for what’s to come.

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China’s Zhurong Mars rover snaps a selfie and gets a bird’s-eye-view pic from above, and asteroid hunters of all kinds look out for dangerous rocks.

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Venus is an intimidating destination for spacecraft, and we’re pretty sure Earth hasn’t yet been a destination for aliens.

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Look at eclipses from the perspective of Earth, the Moon, and beyond. Plus catch up on the week’s space news.

Casey Dreier

This is the 2nd-largest budget proposal for the space agency in 25 years. It embraces a broad set of NASA programs, including Artemis to the Moon, important science initiatives, and a healthy space technology effort.

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Listen to the sounds of the Whirlpool Galaxy and look back at our earliest picture of it.

Casey Dreier

Planetary Society priorities, including Mars Sample Return and the Roman Space Telescope, were funded by Congress in its NASA budget. But Project Artemis's human landing system received only a fraction of its requested amount, pushing a return to the Moon further into the 2020s.

Casey Dreier

This unique, comprehensive dataset includes the full budget history, by year, of every NASA planetary science mission and related activities.

Casey Dreier

A new budget submission from the White House would continue record-high funding for planetary science, but proposes deep cuts to 2 productive Mars missions and defers funding for deep space telescope dedicated to finding hazardous near-Earth objects.