Here's a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov:

Remembering Neil Armstrong: Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, passed away last weekend. In a statement issued on Saturday, President Obama said t…

In an op-ed for the Coalition for Space Exploration, Board of Advisor member Wayne Hale challenges the presidential candidates to take a stance on space exploration.

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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on its way to Ceres, the largest asteroid to be explored. This asteroid probe is leaving behind a legacy of exploration – by circling asteroid Vesta since July 2011. But now the spacecraft has been gradually leaving its orbit around that object and make a beeline to the dwarf planet Ceres. [...]

The walls of the Moon’s Shackleton crater are likely the site of small patches of ice. Thanks to the Mini-RF radar on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), data collected show that small patches of ice could make up at most 5 to 10 percent of material in walls of the crater. “These terrific results from [...]