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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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May 01, 2003
Planetary Society Recovers Shuttle Experiment from Columbia DebrisA Planetary Society-sponsored astrobiology experiment will be retrieved from the container that carried it aloft on space shuttle Columbia's final mission.
Mar 31, 2003
Planetary Society Declaration of Support Sent to NASAThe Planetary Society has presented to NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe a Declaration in Support of Space Exploration signed by over 15,000 people worldwide.
Mar 25, 2003
SETI@home Completes Stellar CountdownThe candidates selected for re-observation were deemed the most interesting radio sources found out of the billions detected since the distributed computing project began to search for extraterrestrial intelligence in May 1999.
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