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NASA's Building A Solar Sail To Propel Space Exploration

Video shows NASA's futuristic solar sail technology prototype. Like a sail on the ocean propels a boat with the wind, this space sail is meant to propel payloads by harnessing the pressure of sunlight ...
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NASA Science Building Breaks New Ground

GREENBELT, Md. – More than just new ground is being broken at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., with the construction of a new, environmentally friendly sciences building. The ...
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NASA advances plan to shrink Goddard campus by 25%

NASA expects the buildings marked for closure to be emptied out by March 2026, according to the International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers.
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NASA Goddard Building Closures Draw Scrutiny

Sudden moves to shutter multiple buildings at the Greenbelt campus have alarmed the top Democrat on the House Science ...
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NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear

Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble and James Webb ...
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NASA’s Ultragreen Building Awarded LEED Platinum

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced this week that the new ultragreen federal facility, named Sustainability Base, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., received ...
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The Moon Base Plan That Sounds Like Sci-Fi but NASA Swears Is Real

Building the first Moon base will rely on a mix of robotic construction, 3D-printed lunar materials, and modular habitats ...
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NASA continues building next-gen Roman Space Telescope despite budget worries

NASA engineers have successfully completed testing on one half of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — a key step in making sure this future observatory will perform as expected once it reaches ...
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Is NASA Building A Nuclear Reactor On The Moon? Here's What We Know

NASA is bringing nuclear energy to the moon. According to internal agency documents obtained by Politico in August 2025, Interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy looks to place a 100-kilowatt nuclear ...
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NASA is Building Floating Train Tracks to Use on the Moon

It sounds like sci-fi, but NASA hopes to build a levitating railway on the Moon. It first proposed the idea in 2021, and it could be up and running by the 2030s. Flexible Levitation on a Track (FLOAT) ...
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NASA: Building lunar outpost would be cheaper than getting to moon

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- It'll be cheaper to build a permanent moon base and keep it running than it will be to get to the moon. Just don't ask how much, NASA's boss says. The U.S. space agency's newly ...
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NASA's returned asteroid samples reveal building blocks for life

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned with samples from Bennu in 2023. Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid. The samples contained the building blocks of life and provide more evidence that asteroids may ...