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NASA's whole 2026 budget was 24 billion dollars, a new poverty-economics study puts the real price of ending extreme poverty at up to 318 billion dollars a year, and the math behind 'fund poverty instead of space' turns out to run the wrong direction - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:00:40 GMTNASA has contracted a purpose-built spacecraft to push the International Space Station out of orbit in late 2030, steering the 430-tonne structure towards the remote South Pacific near Point Nemo, where passing astronauts can briefly be the nearest humans - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:30:00 GMTNASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015 and kept going, and in January 2019 it photographed a small icy world called Arrokoth four billion miles from the Sun, the most distant object ever visited, shaped like two snowballs gently stuck together - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:30:00 GMTNASA timed Voyager 2’s 1977 launch to catch an alignment of the four outer planets that only lines up once every 176 years, letting a single spacecraft slingshot past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on borrowed gravity — a shortcut through the solar syst - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:30:00 GMTAfter twelve years and more than seven billion kilometres, Voyager 2 arrived at Neptune within 100 kilometres of where it had been aimed — a margin NASA compares to sinking a golf putt 3,630 kilometres long - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:30:39 GMTThe Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, crossed into interstellar space in 2012 — but it will still take many thousands of years to exit the Oort Cloud, meaning it has technically left the solar system and is nowhere near leaving the solar system at the same time - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:30:00 GMTNASA engineers working to extend the Voyager missions cannot physically touch the spacecraft, cannot send a replacement part, and must wait nearly 24 hours for every command to arrive — and another 24 hours for the reply — yet they just bought Voyager - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:30:00 GMTOn this day in space! Aug. 7, 1980: NASA's Viking 1 Mars orbiter shuts down 4 years into a 90-day mission - SpaceSpace · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:14:51 GMT