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Serbia Signs the Artemis Accords, Becoming the 69th Nation — and the Latest to Straddle Two Rival Lunar Camps
Serbia became the 69th Artemis Accords signatory on July 16, 2026, and the 10th nation to join this year — while also holding membership in China's rival lunar station program, a growing pattern of dual participation.
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Fifty Days Up: Shenzhou-23 Crew Deepens Microgravity Research Aboard Tiangong
Nearly 50 days into a planned one-year stay, Shenzhou-23's three-person crew — including Hong Kong's first astronaut — is running biomechanics and brain-function studies aboard China's Tiangong space station.
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NASA & Agencies
Former SpaceX Flight Surgeon Anil Menon Set for First Launch — on a Russian Soyuz
NASA confirms astronaut Anil Menon, a former SpaceX flight surgeon and Space Force colonel, will make his first spaceflight July 14 aboard Soyuz MS-29, pending a critical spacewalk to fix the ISS robotic arm.
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Mystery Metal Spheres Wash Up on Queensland Beach — Australian Space Agency Says They're Rocket Debris
Six silver spheres that washed ashore near Townsville over the weekend are pressure vessels from a foreign rocket body, the Australian Space Agency says, warning residents not to touch any similar debris.
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NASA & Agencies
Congress Presses NASA and NOAA on Space Weather Readiness as Solar Cycle 25 Peaks
Lawmakers grilled NASA's and NOAA's top space weather officials on grid, GPS, and communications risks the same week an X1.1 flare and G3 storms lit up July 4th skies with aurora.
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NASA Wants Volunteers to Spend a Year Pretending to Fly to the Moon and Mars
NASA has opened a volunteer call for a roughly yearlong ground analog at Johnson Space Center that, for the first time, fuses its HERA "spacecraft" and CHAPEA "base" into one integrated Moon-and-Mars mission starting no earlier than August 2027.
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NASA & Agencies
Asteroid Day 2026: As Hera Closes In on Dimorphos, Planetary Defense Gets Its Moment
On June 30, 2026, the UN-sanctioned Asteroid Day arrives at a hinge point: DART proved we can nudge an asteroid, and ESA's Hera spacecraft is due at Didymos-Dimorphos by year's end to inspect the wreckage.
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NASA & Agencies
NASA and the SBA Sign a Deal to Funnel Small Businesses Into the Space Economy
NASA and the Small Business Administration signed a memorandum of agreement on June 29, 2026, launching an interagency initiative to grow the American space economy under President Trump's National Space Policy.
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NASA & Agencies
Spacewalk 95: Two NASA Astronauts Head Outside to Give Canadarm2 a New Wrist
On June 30, NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will spend roughly six and a half hours outside the ISS replacing a malfunctioning wrist roll joint on the 25-year-old Canadarm2, the robotic arm that captures and berths visiting cargo ships.
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Botswana Signs the Artemis Accords, Becoming the 68th Nation and Sixth African Member
Botswana signed the Artemis Accords on June 25, 2026, becoming the 68th signatory and sixth African nation to join the U.S.-led framework — the ninth country to sign this year alone.
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NASA's Billion-Dollar Graveyard: How Canceled Exploration Projects Burned the Budget
A new accounting of canceled NASA exploration programs documents billions in combined cost overruns before termination, reigniting pointed questions about project management reform as the agency presses forward with new lunar ambitions.
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NASA & Agencies
America's Spaceports Are Running Out of Runway: NASA's Inspector General Sounds the Alarm
NASA's Inspector General warns US launch sites are nearing capacity as record commercial and government launch cadence strains America's spaceport infrastructure.
