NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C25-008 MARCH 28, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for SpaceX Starship    Credit: NASA NASA has awarded SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, a modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship to their existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch service offerings. The NLS II contracts provide a broad range of commercial launch services for NASA’s planetary, Earth-observing ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-010 MARCH 27, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-11 Assignments for Space Station Mission   NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 members stand inside the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. From left are Mission Specialist Kimiya Yui from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Commander NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, Mission Specialist Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos, and Pilot NASA astronaut Mike Fincke. Credit ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-028 MARCH 25, 2025 NASA Statement on Nomination of Greg Autry for Agency CFO   Photo of Greg Autry Credit: University of Central Florida The following is a statement from NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro regarding the nomination by President Donald Trump of Greg Autry on March 24 to serve as the agency’s chief financial officer (CFO): “The NASA CFO is responsible for executing more than $25 billion in agency funding across a variety ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-038 MARCH 25, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Invites Media to Learn About Artemis Moon Mission Recovery    Artemis II crew members and U.S. Navy personnel practice recovery procedures in the Pacific Ocean using a test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft in February 2024.Credit: NASA NASA and the Department of Defense will host a media event on the recovery operations that will bring the Artemis II astronauts and the ag ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-039 MARCH 24, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 32nd Resupply Launch to Space Station   The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 4, 2024, on the company’s 31st commercial resupply services mission for the agency to the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceX Media accreditation is open for the nex ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-040 MARCH 24, 2025 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Astronauts to Discuss Science Mission   NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, second from left, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague, second from right, and Suni Williams, right, are seen inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after splashing down off the coast of Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission returned fr ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-034 MARCH 21, 2025 OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York   NASA astronaut and Pilot for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission Nichole Ayers is pictured training inside a mockup of a Dragon cockpit at the company’s facilities in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX Students from Richmond Hill, New York, will have the chance to connect with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and N ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-037 MARCH 21, 2025 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION NASA to Cover Northrop Grumman’s 21st Cargo Space Station Departure   Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm shortly after its capture Credit: NASA After delivering more than 8,200 pounds of supplies, scientific investigations, commercial products, hardware, and other cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA and ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-027 MARCH 18, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE Welcome Home! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Back on Earth After Science Mission   NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov land in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida on March 18, 2025. Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore returned from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. Credit: ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-026 MARCH 18, 2025 CLPS NASA Science Continues After Firefly’s First Moon Mission Concludes   After delivering ten NASA science and technology payloads to the near side of the Moon through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander captured this image of a sunset from the lunar surface. Credit: Firefly Aerospace After landing on the Moon with NASA science and ...Continue Reading