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Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
That's no space station, it's a student-led drone show: Space photo of the day
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The International Space Station and a space shuttle, as seen here, joined other historic spacecraft and scenes from space history as part of a student-led drone show for the opening of the Space Foundation's 40th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on April 7, 2025. A group of 10 high school students, working with their teacher and the St. Vrain Innovation Center in Longmont, Colorado, built, coded and coordinated this show using 300 drones, according to KRDO news radio. In addition to recreating the ISS and shuttle, the students also programmed the drones to form an astronaut walking on the moon, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and the symposium's logo. "To see high school students be able to take hundreds of drones and actually make it look professional, this was kind of like an Olympic opening ceremony," said Damian DiPippa, CEO of Auria Space, in an interview with KRDO. This drone show was staged over Broadmoor Lake as a crowd of more than 10,000 Space Symposium attendees from 60 countries looked on from the shore. Now in its 40th year, the Space Foundation's Space Symposium brings together global space professionals from all sectors, providing a platform to explore critical space issues, foster dialogue and drive innovation across the space industry. This year's event runs through April 10, 2025 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. You can read and watch KRDO's coverage of the drone show. You can also read more about some of the announcements at the 40th Space Symposium, including the reveal of a new moon rover and the comments made by NASA's acting administrator about the "weird period" for the space agency right now.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘Extinction level' cuts coming to NASA, report says
NASA could experience 'extinction-level' cuts in President Donald Trump's upcoming budget request, sources say. The president has begun shaking up the space agency with members of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency on-site at its facilities to review contracts and spending last month. The White House also made a last-minute decision to pause mass firing up to 1,000 probationary federal employees. On Friday, multiple sources familiar with the Trump administration's proposal told Ars Technica that NASA's science programs, delivered through the Science Mission Directorate, could face sweeping 50 percent cuts for fiscal year 2026. Overall, NASA could face an approximate 25 percent budget cut, they added. Space advocacy organization The Planetary Society told The Independent that multiple NASA sources had verified the proposal to them. In a statement Friday, it said the result of the cuts 'would be nothing short of an extinction event for space science and exploration in the United States.' Speaking to reporters in Houston on Thursday, NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Nicola Fox, denied receiving official information about the proposed budget reductions. 'We haven't had any information yet about the budget, and I hate planning something on rumors and speculation,' she said. About 30 percent of the space agency's $25 billion is allocated to science programs. Some of NASA's most significant achievements over recent decades have been delivered by science programs, including its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flying above the Red Planet and New Horizons becoming the first spacecraft to explore Pluto. Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought is believed to be spearheading the proposed budget cuts, sources said. In a shadow budget for FY 2023, Vought's conservative think tank the Center for Renewing America proposed a 50 percent reduction in NASA science programs due to its 'misguided' spending on carbon reduction systems and climate change programs. The proposed cuts, however, seem at odds with Trump's goal of commercializing space and planting the American flag on Mars. The president's alleged request for NASA's budget is just a starting point for negotiations with Congress. Trump's budget proposal could be up to three months late, the top House Republican appropriator, Oklahoma Representative Tom Cole, told reporters earlier this week. Cole said he doesn't expect to receive the budget request 'before late April to early May.' The Independent has contacted NASA and the White House for more information.
The Independent
07-03-2025
- Business
- The Independent
‘Extinction level' cuts coming to NASA, report says
NASA could experience 'extinction-level' cuts in President Donald Trump 's upcoming budget request, sources say. The president has begun shaking up the space agency with members of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency on-site at its facilities to review contracts and spending last month. The White House also made a last-minute decision to pause mass firing up to 1,000 probationary federal employees. On Friday, multiple sources familiar with the Trump administration's proposal told Ars Technica that NASA's science programs, delivered through the Science Mission Directorate, could face sweeping 50 percent cuts for fiscal year 2026. Overall, NASA could face an approximate 25 percent budget cut, they added. Space advocacy organization The Planetary Society told The Independent that multiple NASA sources had verified the proposal to them. In a statement Friday, it said the result of the cuts 'would be nothing short of an extinction event for space science and exploration in the United States.' Speaking to reporters in Houston on Thursday, NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Nicola Fox, denied receiving official information about the proposed budget reductions. 'We haven't had any information yet about the budget, and I hate planning something on rumors and speculation,' she said. About 30 percent of the space agency 's $25 billion is allocated to science programs. Some of NASA's most significant achievements over recent decades have been delivered by science programs, including its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flying above the Red Planet and New Horizons becoming the first spacecraft to explore Pluto. Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought is believed to be spearheading the proposed budget cuts, sources said. In a shadow budget for FY 2023, Vought's conservative think tank the Center for Renewing America proposed a 50 percent reduction in NASA science programs due to its 'misguided' spending on carbon reduction systems and climate change programs. The proposed cuts, however, seem at odds with Trump's goal of commercializing space and planting the American flag on Mars. The president's alleged request for NASA's budget is just a starting point for negotiations with Congress. Trump's budget proposal could be up to three months late, the top House Republican appropriator, Oklahoma Representative Tom Cole, told reporters earlier this week. Cole said he doesn't expect to receive the budget request 'before late April to early May.'
