NASA head Nelson says China hiding military presence in space
"I think that we just better not let down our guard," Nelson added.
"I think that we just better not let down our guard," Nelson added.
About 40 additional members of contractor workforce have also been laid off.
The representative mission for MAGGIE presented would conduct three atmospheric and geophysical investigations.
The US space agency has pushed back its manned Artemis mission to the Moon to 2025 that will send the first woman and first person of colour on the lunar surface.
The US space agency has pushed back its manned Artemis mission to the Moon to 2025 that will send the first woman and first person of colour on the lunar surface.
NASA said the additional time is needed to ensure closure of all open work, both on the ground and aboard the station, ahead of the Crew-1 arrival.
The total cost to launch IMAP and the secondary payloads will be approximately $109.4 million, which includes the launch service and other mission-related costs, NASA said.
The first mission -- known as Artemis I -- is on track for 2021 without astronauts, and Artemis II will fly with the crew in 2023.
The galaxy called AUDFs01 was discovered by a team of astronomers led by Dr Kanak Saha from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) Pune.
Both men are veterans of the Space Shuttle program, which ended in 2011, and they had been training for five years with SpaceX.