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This artists rendering provided by NASA shows the Voyager spacecraft. Launched in 1977, the twin spacecraft are exploring the edge of the solar system. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA to shut down Voyager probe systems in an attempt to keep them going through 2030

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

The Arnhem Space Centre is seen on the Gove Peninsula in Australia's Northern Territory May 2, 2022. NASA will launch a research rocket from remote northern Australia this month in the agency's first launch from a commercial facility outside the United States. (Equatorial Launch Australia via AP)

NASA to launch 3 rockets from private Australian space port

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

In this 2021 photo provided by the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, a researcher harvests a thale cress plant growing in lunar soil, at a laboratory in Gainesville, Fla. For the first time, scientists have used lunar soil collected by long-ago moonwalkers to grow plants, with results promising enough that NASA and others already are envisioning hothouses on the moon for the next generation of lunar explorers. (Tyler Jones/UF/IFAS via AP)

Scientists grow plants in lunar dirt, next stop moon

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this photo made available by NASA, four commercial crew astronauts, from left, European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer and NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari and Kayla Barron pose for a photo in their Dragon spacesuits during a fit check aboard the International Space Station's Harmony module on April 21, 2022. SpaceX brought the four astronauts home with a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico early Friday, May 6, capping the busiest month yet for Elon Musk’s taxi service. (NASA via AP)

SpaceX brings 4 astronauts home, then launches 53 satellites

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This photo provided by SpaceX shows the SpaceX crew seated in the Dragon spacecraft on Friday, April 8, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. SpaceX is scheduled to launch three rich businessmen and their astronaut escort to the International Space Station for more than a week’s stay. (SpaceX via AP)

SpaceX launches 3 visitors to space station for $55M each

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this photo provided by NASA, U.S. astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei peers at the Earth below from inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station's window to the world on Feb. 4, 2022. The Soyuz MS-19 crew ship is docked to the Rassvet module in the background. Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but in March 2022 faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet: riding a Russian capsule back to Earth in the midst of deepening tensions between the countries. (Kayla Barron/NASA via AP)

U.S. astronaut ends record-long spaceflight in Russian capsule

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this May 18, 2021, file photo, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate is set to approve a big innovation bill aimed at making the U.S. more competitive with China and other countries. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Sen. Maria Cantwell: NASA’s role in space travel is confusing Americans

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this image released by NASA, Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard, lifts off Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The $10 billion infrared observatory is intended as the successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA via AP)

Space telescope launched on daring quest to behold 1st stars

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this image released by NASA, Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard, lifts off Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The $10 billion infrared observatory is intended as the successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA via AP)

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launched on daring quest to behold 1st stars

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

Photographers follow a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during a time exposure as it lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. The Falcon 9 will deploy into orbit NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft, an X-ray astronomy mission to study black holes and neutron stars.(AP Photo/John Raoux)

NASA’s newest X-ray telescope rockets into orbit

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft onboard, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. NASA launched the spacecraft Tuesday night on the DART mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

NASA launches first mission to test space tech to defend Earth from asteroids

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

In this 2017 photo made available by NASA, technicians lift the mirror assembly of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane inside a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (Desiree Stover/NASA via AP) ** FILE **

Launch of new NASA space telescope delayed after incident

Associated Press

Jeff Bezos, center, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, poses for photos with Chef Jose Andres, left, and Van Jones, right, founder of Dream corps during a briefing following the launch of the New Shepard rocket from its spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Andres and Jones were awarded Courage and Civility awards during the briefing. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Jeff Bezos’ greed could cost the U.S. the moon

By Jianli Yang

The earth's shadow covers the full moon during a partial lunar eclipse as it sets beyond the U.S. flag on top of a building, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, in downtown Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

‘Vital next step’: NASA seeks ideas for nuclear reactor on moon

By Keith Ridler - Associated Press

This July 21, 1969, photo made available by NASA shows a U.S. flag planted at Tranquility Base on the surface of the moon, and a silhouette of a thruster at right, seen from a window in the Lunar Module. On Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, NASA announced it is delaying putting astronauts back on the moon until 2025 at the earliest. (NASA via AP, File)

NASA bumps astronaut moon landing to 2025 at earliest

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press