A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples already collected on the red planet.

WASHINGTON, DC—This week, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said he has “full confidence” in the space agency’s plans to use the existing heat shield to protect the Orion spacecraft during its upcoming lunar mission.

Most of the NASA civil servants who participated in last year's second deferred resignation program saw their pay and benefits end Friday.

Scientists say all signs indicate the so-called "megaberg" could be just days or weeks from totally disintegrating.

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) tech flying aboard Psyche spacecraft has been successfully demonstrated. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The news was met with outrage by NASA insiders, who pointed out that many of these historical documents remain undigitized, a scandal that has metastasized into the first major PR challenge for recently sworn-in NASA administrator and billionaire space tourist Jared Isaacman.

A recent photo from NASA's Curiosity rover gives an idea of what Mars would look like under skies that resemble our own on Earth. Take a look.

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