The Hill
• Mark R Whittington
A 2026 NASA authorization bill that passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee sharply departs from the agency’s 2010 authorization framework, recasting Congress as an active partner in the Artemis return to the Moon. It redefines oversight, budgeting and program roles for lunar exploration.
Space.com
• Tereza Pultarova
By Space.com: "It's absolutely the destruction of a central part of human heritage.".
Bloomberg
• Kara Carlson, Loren Grush
By Bloomberg: Elon Musk said his Terafab project — a grand plan to eventually manufacture his own chips for robotics, artificial intelligence and space data centers — will be built in Austin and jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX.
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Business Insider
NASA Spaceflight
• Justin Davenport
By NASA Spaceflight: Just under four months after Soyuz MS-28 launched from Site 31/6 at Baikonur Cosmodrome in….
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Nearly 140 million euros ($162 million) that ESA member states allocated to a program to support launch vehicles remains in limbo and could be lost.
Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
By Universe Today: Marie Mortreux, an assistant professor in the University of Rhode Island’s College of Health Sciences, is part of an international team of researchers studying how the Mars’s gravity would affect astronauts’ skeletal muscle.
Space.com
By Space.com: Artemis II Back on the Pad!.
DVIDS / U.S. DoD
By DVIDS / U.S. DoD: The U.S. Space Force is executing a change in launch service provider from ULA to SpaceX for the Global Positioning System (GPS) National Security Space Launch (NSSL) mission known as GPS III-8.
Bloomberg
• Ed Ludlow, Julie Johnsson, Loren Grush
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
