
Matthew Phelan
Contributing Science Reporter at Mashable
Science @mashable, past reporting @Slate, @newrepublic, @sciam, @Gawker (RIP), @Awl (RIP), @insideclimate, etc. / NYU SHERP / RTs are not (per se) endorsements
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1 month ago |
mahoningmatters.com | Matthew Phelan
An office in an obscure corner of the federal government that NASA has relied on to safely land astronauts on the moon and robotic probes on Mars is facing pressure to cut its tight-knit team of experts by at least 20%, according to two people familiar with the mandate.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Matthew Phelan
Its scientists also taught crash courses in lunar geology to the Apollo astronauts, including Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, to better inform their collecting of rock samples. The training has been revived for NASA's Artemis program, which plans to return astronauts to the moon's surface as soon as 2027. The office's geology experts raced to help NASA find new landing sites for the first of its two historic Viking Mars landers in 1976 after an original site was found to be too dangerous.
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Feb 24, 2025 |
me.mashable.com | Matthew Phelan
An unassuming loophole might be giving the U.S. government and its private contractors free rein to withhold evidence of unidentified craft traveling well above our skies — in outer space. That's the argument made by former Capitol Hill policy advisor and attorney Dillon Guthrie, published this January in the Harvard National Security Journal, a publication run by Harvard Law School.
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Feb 22, 2025 |
mashable.com | Matthew Phelan
An unassuming loophole might be giving the U.S. government and its private contractors free rein to withhold evidence of unidentified craft traveling well above our skies — in outer space. That's the argument made by former Capitol Hill policy advisor and attorney Dillon Guthrie, published this January in the Harvard National Security Journal, a publication run by Harvard Law School.
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Feb 8, 2025 |
msn.com | Matthew Phelan
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