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NASA's Artemis III mission is about three months behind schedule, administrator Jared Isaacman says, putting pressure on the agency's plan to launch two moon-landing missions in 2028. In a wide-ranging email to employees on Sunday, Isaacman said Artemis III could launch in the summer of 2027, preserving two opportunities for lunar landings the following year. But that's the "best-case scenario." NASA doesn't plan to put astronauts on the moon during Artemis III. The agency redesigned the mission earlier this year as a crewed flight in Earth orbit, wherein astronauts would rehearse docking the Orion spacecraft with lunar landers built by...

Gov. Newsom of California is determined to see the high-speed rail system completed or at least started, but the bad news just keeps rolling in like a freight train (pun intended). Newsom is in the process of pushing for next fiscal year's budget and as part of that process he has announced a plan to make sure the bullet train project gets money from the state climate fund.California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to tap at least $2.5 billion from the state’s climate fund to pay for state firefighting crews and the long-troubled high-speed rail project.In his budget proposal unveiled last...