NASA News   RELEASE 25-021 MARCH 12, 2025 SCIENCE NASA Launches Missions to Study Sun, Universe’s Beginning NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 11, 2025. Credit: SpaceX NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx, is on its way to study the origins ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-028 MARCH 11, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim to Discuss Upcoming Launch, Mission  Official portrait of NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, who will serve as a flight engineer during Expedition 73. Credit: NASA NASA will provide interview opportunities with astronaut Jonny Kim beginning at 9 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, March 18, to highlight his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in April.   The virtual interviews from Star City, Russia, will str ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-025 MARCH 7, 2025 SCIENCE NASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 captured an image March 6, 2025, after landing in a crater from the Moon’s South Pole. The lunar lander is on its side about 820 feet from the intended landing site, Mons Mouton. In the center of the image between the two lander legs is the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1 suite, which shows the drill deployed. Credit: Intuitive Machines Shortly aft ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-025 MARCH 7, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Invites Creators to Design Mascot for Artemis Moon Mission  Artemis II crew members, shown inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, stand in front of their Orion crew module on Aug. 8, 2023. From left are: Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; Victor Glover, pilot; Reid Wiseman, commander; and Christina Hammock Koch, mission specialist. Credit: NASA NASA is seeking design ide ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-032 MARCH 7, 2025 OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Oregon NASA astronaut Don Pettit inside the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft. Credit: NASA Students from Oregon will have the chance to connect with NASA astronaut Don Pettit as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions from aboard the International Space Station.   Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call at 2:15 p.m. EDT on Monday, M ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-029 MARCH 5, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Sets Coverage for Agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launch, Docking The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission pictured during an equipment test at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station.   Liftoff is targeted for 7:48 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, March 12, from Launch Compl ...Continue Reading

NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C25-006 MARCH 4, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Awards Launch Service for Mission to Study Storm Formation Credit: NASA NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission, which aims to understand why, when, and where tropical convective storms form, and why some storms produce extreme weather. The mission will launch on the company’s Alpha rocket from NASA’s Wallops Fl ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-030 MARCH 4, 2025 SCIENCE NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Second Private Moon Landing Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission lunar lander, Athena, entering lunar orbit on Monday, March 3. Credit: Intuitive Machines Carrying NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations, Intuitive Machines is targeting their Moon landing no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6. The company’s Nova-C lunar lander is slated to land in Mons Mouton, a lunar plat ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-031 MARCH 3, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in Ohio, Texas NASA’s Space X Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait. Credit: NASA Students from Ohio and Texas will have the chance to hear NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer their prerecorded questions this week.   At 12:55 p.m. EST, Wednesday, March 5, NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Don Pettit will respond to quest ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-022 MARCH 2, 2025 SCIENCE Touchdown! Carrying NASA Science, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lands on Moon First image captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, taken shortly after confirmation of a successful landing at Mare Crisium on the Moon’s near side. This is the second lunar delivery of NASA science and tech instruments as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aer ...Continue Reading