KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Nearly 1,000 employees have accepted resignation offers, according to NASA late Thursday afternoon, according to the U.S. space agency. “About 5% of NASA’s workforce ...

President Donald Trump's NASA nominee Jared Isaacman is seen during a U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation confirmation hearing on Wednesday, April 09, 2025.

Now, NASA is hoping to land the first humans on Mars by the 2030s. In the 1960s, humans set out to discover what the red planet has to teach us.

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