NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C26-001 JAN. 6, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Awards Launch Range Contract for Wallops Flight Facility   Credit: NASA NASA has selected ARES Technical Services Corporation of McLean, Virginia, to provide launch range operations support at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Wallops Range Contract has a total potential value of $339.8 million with a one-year base period expected to begin Tuesday, Feb. 10 ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-001 JAN. 5, 2026 TECHNOLOGY NASA Selects Tech Proposals to Advance Search-for-Life Mission   Credit: NASA NASA announced Monday the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory concept – the first mission that would directly image Earth-like planets around stars like our Sun and study the chemical composition of their atmospheres for signs of life. This flagship ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M26-001 JAN.5, 2026 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA to Cover US Spacewalks 94, 95 at International Space Station   NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Anne McClain is pictured near one of the International Space Station’s main solar arrays during a spacewalk. Credit: NASA NASA astronauts will conduct two spacewalks Thursday, Jan. 8, and Thursday, Jan. 15, outside the International Space Station, and the agency wi ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-104 Dec. 29, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA to Preview US Spacewalks at Space Station in January    NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers is pictured during a spacewalk to upgrade the orbital outpost’s power generation system and relocate a communications antenna. Credit: NASA Editor's note: This version was updated to correct the email subject line. NASA astronauts will conduct a pair ...Continue Reading

Sent using nasa.gov email in the from: NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-104 Dec. 29, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA to Preview US Spacewalks at Space Station in January    NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers is pictured during a spacewalk to upgrade the orbital outpost’s power generation system and relocate a communications antenna. Credit: NASA NASA astronauts will conduct a pair ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-074 DEC. 19, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-12 Assignments for Space Station Mission   From left to right, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. Credit: NASA As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, to the Int ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-077 DEC. 18, 2025 LEADERSHIP NASA Welcomes 15th Administrator Jared Isaacman     Jared Isaacman was sworn in as NASA’s 15th administrator on Dec. 18, 2025. Credit: John Kraus Jared Isaacman was sworn in Thursday as NASA's 15th administrator by District Judge Timothy J. Kelly. The oath was taken during a ceremony held at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington.   As NASA administrator, Isaa ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-073 DEC. 16, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Ignites New Golden Age of Exploration, Innovation in 2025   Artemis II NASA astronauts (left to right) Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen stand in the white room on the crew access arm of the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as part of an integrated ground systems test at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 20, 2023. Credit: NA ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-103 DEC. 12, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim to Discuss Eight-Month Space Station Mission    NASA astronaut Jonny Kim poses inside the International Space Station’s cupola as it orbits 265 miles above the Indian Ocean near Madagascar. Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will recap his recent mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 3:30 p.m. EST Friday, Dec ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-072 DEC. 11, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Selects Two Heliophysics Missions for Continued Development    Credit: NASA NASA has selected one small explorer mission concept to advance toward flight design and another for an extended period of concept development. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Science Management Council selected CINEMA (Cross-scale Investigation of Earth’s Magnetotail and Aurora) to enter Phase B of dev ...Continue Reading