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Mike Pence, US vice president (left) and Jim Bridenstine

What to expect from the controversial new choice as NASA boss

25 April 2018

Republican politician Jim Bridenstine has taken the reins at NASA after a long battle. What will his appointment mean for the space agency, asks Samantha Murphy
Parker probe

NASA is right to pay homage to the living for the first time

7 June 2017

Naming a solar probe after astrophysicist Eugene Parker breaks the space agency’s tradition of only honouring the dead. That’s a good thing, says Geraint Lewis

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