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

NASA News   RELEASE 26-026 APRIL 1, 2026 MISSIONS Liftoff! NASA Launches Astronauts on Historic Artemis Moon Mission The SLS (Space Launch System) launches with the Artemis II crew aboard the Orion spacecraft on April 1, 2026, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Spurred by American ingenuity, astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission are in flight, preparing for the first crewed lunar flyby in more t ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-025 MARCH 26, 2026 MISSIONS NASA to Unveil Complete Roman Telescope, Host Media Briefing NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope stands fully assembled, following the integration of its two major segments, in the clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The mission is slated to launch by May 2027, but the team is on track for launch as early as fall 2026. Credit: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-026 MARCH 25, 2026 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Sets Coverage for First Artemis Crewed Mission Around Moon Artemis II crew members CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman walk out of the astronaut crew quarters inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to the Artemis crew transportation vehicles prior to traveling to Launch Pad 39B as part of a ...Continue Reading

Sent using nasa.gov email in the from: NASA News   RELEASE 26-026 MARCH 24, 2026 ABOUT NASA NASA Unveils Initiatives to Achieve America’s National Space Policy Artist's concept of Phase 3 of NASA's Moon Base. Credit: NASA As part of its “Ignition” event on Tuesday, NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives designed to achieve President Donald J. Trump’s National Space Policy a ...Continue Reading

Sent using nasa.gov email in the from: NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-024 MARCH 23, 2026 ABOUT NASA NASA to Provide Update on Implementation of National Space Policy NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman speaks during a workforce Q&A session, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Glenn marks the eleventh stop in Isaacman’s roadshow to visit NASA facilities and engage directly with the agency’s ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-022 MARCH 16, 2026 AERONAUTICS NASA Invites Media to Learn About Upcoming X-59 Test Flights As its team prepared for second flight, NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft underwent engine run testing on Thursday, March 12, 2026, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Credit: NASA NASA will hold a media teleconference at 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 19 to highlight plans for ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-021 MARCH 12, 2026 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA to Cover Upcoming US Spacewalks 94, 95 Outside Space Station  NASA astronaut Anne McClain works near one of the International Space Station’s main solar arrays during a May 1, 2025, spacewalk to upgrade the station’s power system and relocate a communications antenna. Credit: NASA NASA astronauts will conduct a pair of spacewalks beginning Wednesday, March 18, ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-024 MARCH 9, 2026 NASA Armstrong Director Brad Flick to Retire After 40 Years of Service Portrait of Brad Flick. Credit: NASA On Monday, NASA announced Bradley Flick, director of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, will retire Thursday, March 19, after a nearly 40-year career advancing aeronautics and flight research. Flick began his NASA journey in 1986 as a flight systems engineer a ...Continue Reading