var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option October 15, 2014 * NASA Soil Moisture Mapper Arrives at Launch Site * A NASA spacecraft designed to track Earth's water in one of its most important, but least recognized forms -- soil moisture -- now is at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, to begin final preparations for launch in January. The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option October 8, 2014 * NASA Partners with X-37B Program for Use of Former Space Shuttle Hangars * NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Air Force's X-37B Program for use of the center’s Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) Bays 1 and 2 to process the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle for la ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option October 6, 2014 * Media Accreditation Now Open for First Flight of NASA’s Orion Spacecraft * NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has opened accreditation for media to attend the rollout of the agency's Orion spacecraft to its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch pad in mid-November, as well as Orion's liftoff on i ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option October 2, 2014 * Media Invited to Groundbreaking for New Kennedy Space Center Headquarters * Media are invited to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for the new NASA Kennedy Space Center headquarters building at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Oct. 7. The new headquarters building will be the keystone to the Central Campus makeover and will ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option October 1, 2014 * NASA’s Orion Spacecraft, Rocket Move Closer to First Flight * NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and the Delta IV Heavy rocket that will carry it into space are at their penultimate stops in Florida on their path to a December flight test. Orion was moved Sunday out of the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facilit ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option September 25, 2014 * NASA Awards Agencywide Helium Contract * NASA has awarded an agencywide multiple award contract to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. of Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Linde LLC of Murray Hill, New Jersey, consolidating the agency’s requirements for 10.2 million liters of liquid helium and 128.6 million cubic fe ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option September 25, 2014 * News Media Invited to Watch Rollout of Delta IV Heavy for EFT-1 Orion Flight Test * On Monday, Sept. 29, news media will have the opportunity to observe the rollout of the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket in preparation for the first flight test of NASA’s new Orion spacecraft. The launch vehicle ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option September 21, 2014 * NASA Cargo Launches to Space Station Aboard SpaceX Resupply Mission * About 5,000 pounds of NASA science investigations and cargo are on their way to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. The cargo ship launched on the company's Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canav ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option September 16, 2014 * NASA Chooses American Companies to Transport U.S. Astronauts to International Space Station Selection * Selection Will Return Launches to America U.S. astronauts once again will travel to and from the International Space Station from the United States on American spacecraft under groundbreaking contracts NASA anno ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option September 16, 2014 * NASA to Make Major Announcement Today About Astronaut Transport to the International Space Station *  Image Credit: NASA NASA will make a major announcement today at 4 p.m. EDT regarding the return of human spaceflight launches to the United States. The agency will make the announcement during a news conference ...Continue Reading