NASA Chief expects cooperation with Russia on ISS to continue 28 April 2022 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said that he has full confidence Russia will extend its cooperation with the United States on the International Space Station (ISS) based on the continuing close cooperation and warm personal relations between crews from both countries and their control teams back on Earth.
	Crew of first private flight to ISS head back to Earth 26 April 2022 The crew of the first fully private mission to the International Space Station departed the orbiting laboratory to head back to Earth. The three businessmen and a former NASA astronaut had spent more than two weeks on the station on a history-making mission organized by startup company Axiom Space.
	Make Uranus mission your priority, NASA told 22 April 2022 The US space agency NASA should prioritise a mission to Uranus, an influential panel of scientists says. The "ice giant" is the seventh planet in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun 19 times further out than Earth. It’s only ever been visited once before, in a brief flyby by the Voyager-2 probe in 1986. Researchers think an in-depth study of Uranus can help them better understand the many similarly sized objects now being discovered around other stars. The recommendation is made in a document published by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).
	US pledges to end anti-satellite missile tests 22 April 2022 The United States announced a commitment to stop testing anti-satellite missiles that generate dangerous debris in space, a measure described as "an important step" by the head of NASA.
	A second chance at the Moon 19 April 2022 NASA announced last month it will hold a new competition to select a second lunar lander for the Artemis program alongside SpaceX’s Starship. Jeff Foust reports this gives companies that lost the first time a second shot, but perhaps with different designs and different partners.
	China’s Chang Zheng 3B/E launches ChinaSat 6D 18 April 2022 China has successfully launched the ChinaSat 6D satellite into geostationary transfer orbit Friday via the Chang Zheng 3B/E rocket.
	When will we explore Enceladus to find alien life? 15 April 2022 While NASA will launch Dragonfly later this decade to Titan, another potentially habitable moon of Saturn, no space agency is currently funding a mission to Enceladus.
	NASA and UAE to share Mars mission datasets 14 April 2022 NASA’s MAVEN mission and the United Arab Emirates’ Hope Probe mission are paving the way toward greater scientific collaboration and data exchange between the two Mars orbiters.
	What Sounds Captured by NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reveal About Mars 5 April 2022 A new study based on recordings made by the rover finds that the speed of sound is slower on the Red Planet than on Earth and that, mostly, a deep silence prevails. Listen closely to sounds from Mars, recorded by NASA’s Perseverance: the rover’s mechanical whine and click in a light Martian wind; the whir of rotors on Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter; the crackling strike of a rock-zapping laser. An international team of scientists has done just that, performing the first analysis.
	Perseverance rover’s Mars samples now won’t make it to Earth until 2033 at best 2 April 2022 The NASA-ESA campaign to haul Mars samples back to Earth will require two Red Planet landers instead of one. The change will delay the arrival of samples here by two years, to no earlier than 2033.
	Biden proposes $26 billion NASA budget for 2023 to fund exploration, Earth science 30 March 2022 Artemis and climate change are among the priorities for the Biden administration in its 2023 NASA budget request.
	NASA finalizes plans for its next cosmic mapmaker 29 March 2022 NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission will be able to scan the entire sky every six months and create a map of the cosmos unlike any before. Scheduled to launch no later than April 2025, it will probe what happened within the first second after the big bang, how galaxies form and evolve, and the prevalence of molecules critical to the formation of life, like water, locked away as ice in our galaxy.

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