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Space Digest - April 17, 2025







Space Ops: Trump Draft Budget Takes Swing At NASA Science

by  Irene Klotz
The Trump administration’s draft budget plan for fiscal 2026 includes deep cuts to NASA’s science programs.


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CHECK 6 PODCAST: SPACE SYMPOSIUM 2025
Podcast: Spatial Awareness—Live From The 40th Space Symposium
by Guy Norris, Irene Klotz, Vivienne Machi, Garrett Reim
Editors at the 40th Space Symposium discuss everything from threats to NASA's science missions to the Golden Dome air-defense concept.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
First McDonnell Mercury Capsule
by Aviation Week Staff
First Project Mercury space capsule is completed at McDonnell Aircraft Corp. St Louis, Missouri, and was ready to be delivered to National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Wallop's station, Virginia, we reported in the April 18, 1960 issue of Aviation Week.
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