NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-029 APRIL 13, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Invites Media to Rollout Event for Artemis III Moon Rocket Stage Pictured above is the top four-fifths of the SLS (Space Launch System) core stage – the section containing the liquid hydrogen tank, liquid oxygen tank, intertank, and forward skirt. NASA will roll the largest section of the agency’s SLS rocket that will launch the second crewed Artemis mission under the Artemis III mission out of NASA’ ...Continue Reading

NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C26-004 APRIL 13, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Awards Data Engineering, Informatics Support Contract   Credit: NASA NASA has selected Development Seed of Washington to provide research and development services to the Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI) at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.   The award is a performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract wi ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-028 APRIL 13, 2026 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA to Host Artemis II Crew Postflight News Conference NASA’s Artemis II crew, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, shared brief remarks with friends, family, and colleagues after they landed at Ellington Airport near the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday, April 11, 2026, after a nearly 10-day j ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-031 APRIL 11, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Science, Cargo Launch Aboard Northrop Grumman CRS-24 Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft launches atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on April 11, 2026. Credit: NASA NASA is sending more science, technology demonstrations, and crew supplies to the International Space Station following the successful launch of the agency’s Northrop Grumman ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-030 APRIL 10, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Welcomes Record-Setting Artemis II Moonfarers Back to Earth   NASA’s Orion spacecraft, with Artemis II crewmembers NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, was seen as it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT on Friday, April 10, 2026. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky The first astronauts to trav ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-029 APRIL 7, 2026 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA’s Artemis II Crew Beams Official Moon Flyby Photos to Earth  The Moon, backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse, is photographed by NASA’s Orion spacecraft on Monday, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II mission. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-028 ARPIL 07, 2026 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA to Host Media Call with Artemis II Crew on Way Home from Moon Midway through their lunar observation period on April 6, 2026, the Artemis II crew members, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, pause to turn the camera around for a selfie inside the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA Media wi ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-028 APRIL 6, 2026 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA’s Artemis II Crew Eclipses Record for Farthest Human Spaceflight .   On Monday, April 6, 2026, six days into the Artemis II mission, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen surpassed the record for human spaceflight’s farthest distance from Earth, which was previously set by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970. Credit: NASA Four ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-027 APRIL 3, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Sets Coverage for Northrop Grumman’s CRS-24 Resupply Launch Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft, carrying more than 11,000 pounds of new science investigations and supplies for the Expedition 73 crew, approaches the International Space Station on Sept. 18, 2025. Credit: NASA NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 8:49 a.m. EDT on Wednesda ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-027 APRIL 2, 2026 MISSIONS NASA’s Artemis II Mission Leaves Earth Orbit for Flight around Moon Earth's crescent is seen from a solar array camera on the Orion spacecraft on the first flight day of the Artemis II mission. Credit: NASA For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts on a NASA mission are bound to fly around the Moon after successfully completing a key burn of Orion’s main engine. &nb ...Continue Reading