Ars Technica
NASA's Orion heat shield, which once shed char like a bad sunburn, performed nearly flawlessly on Artemis II - and the safety panel is so impressed they're using words like 'stunning.'
The Guardian Europe
Artemis II crew gets the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, Trump announces a space academy with no location, and everyone agrees Mars is next (shortly, of course).
Ars Technica
Trump announces a US Space Academy, because apparently the sky isn't the limit - it's just the beginning, and also a great place to put a college.
NASA
Four astronauts who flew around the Moon get shiny medals, because apparently that's a thing now, and Trump is handing them out.
SpaceNews
NASA's plan to turn a Mars rover test model into a lunar rover might cost over a billion bucks, but the administrator says it's a bargain if you ignore the math.
NASA
NASA joins a multi-agency AI initiative to speed up space discovery, because 150 petabytes of data aren't going to analyze themselves.
NASA
NASA asks companies to help figure out how to keep humans in space after the ISS retires, because apparently they didn't plan ahead.
NASA
NASA and Relativity Space are teaming up to study Martian weather with a 2028 mission, because if you're going to colonize Mars, you should probably know if it's windy.
SpaceNews
Humanity is finally building a moon base, but please don't forget about Mars - it's the whole reason we're reheating this lunar leftover.
SpaceNews
NASA warns China might beat the U.S. to a crewed moon flyby in 2027, prompting a scramble to revamp Artemis lest America lose its lunar bragging rights.
Ars Technica
NASA boss Jared Isaacman opens a $15M Space Camp expansion, and Artemis II moon flyby doubles summer registrations - proof that space still sells tickets.
The Guardian Europe
Congress, Bill Nye, and the entire space community unite to tell Trump that cutting NASA's science budget is a terrible idea, again.
SpaceNews
NASA's revised Artemis 3 mission, now an orbital test instead of a moon landing, remains short on details even as hardware trickles in - leaving spacesuit tests, crew assignments, and a 2027 schedule all up in the air.
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