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by Jasmyne Keimig • Jun 3, 2021 at 8:36 am What incentives has he got up his sleeve? LESTER BLACK Gov. Jay Inslee and WA State Lottery director Marcus Glasper will announce COVID-19 vaccine incentives today: The governors office has declined to say in advance what exactly these incentives will be, but it comes as the state is trying to reach populations who are either skeptical or havent had the chance to get the vaccine (around 43% of all Washingtoni...

Despite the best efforts of scientists eager to study Earth’s sister world, U.S. efforts to send a dedicated spacecraft to Venus have languished. An imminent announcement could decide whether it will be years—or decades—before we go back

Despite the best efforts of scientists eager to study Earth’s sister world, U.S. efforts to send a dedicated spacecraft to Venus languished—until NASA made a surprising announcement

updated: Jun 02 2021, 20:28 ist Like many kids, Sue Smrekar dreamed that she would one day voyage into space. But instead of becoming an astronaut, she ended up as a planetary geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she worked on robotic explorers of other worlds. In some sense, her interplanetary destiny seemed preordained even before she was born: her father hails from a rural community in Pennsylvania named Venus. Fittingly, the very first mission Smrekar worked on was NASA...

NASA is going back to Venus—twice—with two new “Discovery” missions, DAVINCI+ and VERITAS.

/PRNewswire/ -- To learn more about how terrestrial planets evolve over time, NASA selected the VERITAS and DAVINCI+ missions for its Discovery Program, both...