Tag: Sean Duffy
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How America fell behind China in the lunar space race—and how it can catch back up
For the last month, NASA’s interim administrator, Sean Duffy, has been giving interviews and speeches around the world, offering a singular message: “We are going to beat the Chinese to the Moon.” This is certainly what the president who appointed Duffy to the NASA post wants to hear. Unfortunately, there is a very good chance…
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Report argues NASA is illegally using President’s Budget Request to circumvent Congress’ budgeting process
The Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. Image: NASA Update Oct. 1, 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC): Added new responses from NASA; update noting that the shutdown began on Oct. 1, 2025. A new report from the Democratic staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (CST) argues that NASA…
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Houston, you’ve got a space shuttle… only NASA won’t say which one
The head of NASA has decided to move one of the agency’s retired space shuttles to Houston, but which one seems to still be up in the air. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), who earlier this year introduced and championed an effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston, issued…
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy picked as Interim NASA Administrator
Acting NASA Associate Administrator Vanessa Wyche, left, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro, right, react as they watch the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splash down with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Nick Hague, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, from the Space Operations Center at the Mary…