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Save NASA Science Press Conference On Monday, October 6, 2025, amid the government shutdown, leaders from 20 national science, education, and space organizations, led by The Planetary Society and its CEO Bill Nye, gathered with Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD-04) and invited Members of Congress at the U.S. Capitol to urge protection of NASA’s and the National Science Foundation’s science budgets. The White House’s proposed 47 percent cut to NASA’s science budget threatens an “extinction-level” event for space exploration.
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Jan 11, 2005
Tune in to the Sounds of Saturn's Moon Titan on The Planetary Society's WebsiteThe Earth's public may soon have the chance to hear the winds of an alien world when The Planetary Society teams up with the European Space Agency and the Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument team to release the sounds recorded by the Huygens probe.
Jan 06, 2005
Planetary Society Art Contest Winner Wins Trip to Huygens Mission Control in GermanyChelsey Tyler’s award for winning the The Planetary Society’s international art contest, “Imagining Titan: Artists Peer Beneath the Veil,” will be to travel to the Huygens Mission Control Center in Darmstadt, Germany.
Nov 09, 2004
Launch Date Set for Cosmos 1, The World's First Solar Sail SpacecraftThe world's first solar sail spacecraft will be set for launch on March 1, 2005 from a submerged submarine in the Barents Sea.
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