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Mars weather seen from the InSight lander. (Credit: NASA) WASHINGTON (National Space Council PR) — Today, the National Space Council released the National Strategy for Planetary Protection. This Strategy will advance the Nation’s role in the sustainable exploration of space by appropriately protecting other planetary bodies and the Earth from potentially harmful biological contamination from space exploration activities. Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the National Space Council Scott Pace, Ph.D., and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technol...

Boy with autism saves family from devastating house fire in Shreveport neighborhood just days before Christmas “If it wasn’t for him waking us up, I don’t even want to think about it” A family is safe following a fire that destroyed their home two days before Christmas. (Source: Scott Pace) By Alex Onken and Jeff Ferrell | December 23, 2020 at 10:48 AM CST - Updated December 23 at 10:01 PM SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - A family is safe from a house fire Wednesday morning thanks to a young boy. Crews were called out to the 200 block of Robinson Place just before 9:45 a....

    Twilight for Trump space policy by Jeff Foust Monday, December 21, 2020 On December 9, the National Space Council met for the eighth and last time in the Trump Administration at the Kennedy Space Center. The event, held in the Apollo/Saturn V Center there, with that rocket above attendees’ heads, was something of a season finale for the council. Cabinet secretaries and other officials spent about an hour recounting the work they had done in space policy in the last four years, from the establishment of the Space Force to commercial space regulatory reforms. “Allow me to express my a...

Scientific American Trump Signs Directive to Bolster Nuclear Power in Space Exploration One goal laid out in the new policy is the testing of a fission power system on the moon by the mid- to late 2020s December 21, 2020 Print Artist's illustration of a fission power system on the surface of Mars using four 10-kilowatt units. Credit: NASA Advertisement Nuclear power will be a big part of the United States’ space exploration efforts going forward, a new policy document affirms. President Donald Trump on Wednesday (Dec. 16) issued Space Policy Directive-6 (SPD-6), which lays out a national s...

The White House. Photo: US government The White House released Space Policy Directive-6 (SPD-6) on Wednesday regarding a U.S. national strategy for space nuclear power and propulsion (SNPP), technology that the White House said will be needed to fuel future space exploration. Space nuclear systems power missions where alternative power sources are inadequate, such as environments that are too dark for solar power or too far away to carry sufficient chemical fuels.  SPD-6 establishes that the U.S. government will pursue a roadmap for federally-supported space nuclear power and propulsion acti...