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Trump admin escalates space race with China, banning visa-holding scientists from working at NASA

NASA has banned Chinese citizens with US visas from participating in agency programs — a dramatic escalation in the space race between China and the United States. It occurs as China gears up to send ...
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Atlantis Docks With International Space Station

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: We're having such a good conversation about the space shuttle and what is happening 225 ...
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A plan written by Trump’s NASA pick was leaked. Here’s what to know about ‘Project Athena’

A 62-page document written by President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again pick to run NASA, billionaire Jared Isaacman, outlines a sweeping, ambitious, and at times controversial plan for the space ...
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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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NEWSROOM for February 8, 2001

ALLARD BEUTEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A NASA educational program is bringing space science right into some high school and middle schools. Students from Alabama, California, Florida, Michigan ...
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With 15,000 workers furloughed and funds uncertain, NASA focuses on one mission — return to the moon

Some 15,000 NASA employees were sent home this week as a government shutdown began, halting work across much of an agency already grappling with budget cuts and widespread job losses. But at least one ...
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‘We’re not going to wait for one company’: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

NASA may sideline SpaceX and choose a different company to land its astronauts on the moon later this decade, acting space agency chief Sean Duffy suggested during TV appearances Monday. Duffy ...
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In the race to attract the world’s smartest minds, China is gaining on the US

A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes of Health neurobiologist. Celebrated mathematicians. And over half a dozen ...
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A giant inflatable bag could catch asteroids and space junk

Asteroids contain large quantities of both precious and common metals, and despite the obvious challenges in reaching them, a few startups say these celestial bodies could offer a sustainable ...
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Vital Signs highlights how researchers are "cracking the code on the genome" to harness the biomedical superpowers of hibernating animals

In a groundbreaking new episode, CNN's long-running series Vital Signs delves into the cutting-edge science of hibernation, revealing how the secrets of the animal kingdom could unlock revolutionary ...
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Space Shuttle Atlantis Docks With International Space Station

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: More on the shuttle, getting ever, ever closer to the docking. MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE ...