NASA Funds Study of Proposals to Investigate Space Weather Systems *JUN 11, 2024* *RELEASE 24-084* Aurora and airglow are seen from the International Space Station in 2015. Credits: NASA/JSC/ESRS NASA has selected three proposals for concept studies of missions to investigate the complex system of space weather that surrounds our planet and how it’s connected to Earth’s atmosphere. The three concepts propose how to enact the DYNAMIC (Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling) mission, which was recommended by ...Continue Reading

NASA Invites Media for Launch of New Disaster Response System *JUN 11, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-081* Hurricane Idalia brought significant storm surge, heavy rains, and strong winds to Florida as a Category 3 hurricane in 2023. This image is from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite, acquired at 11:35 a.m. EDT on Aug. 29, 2023. Credits: NASA Earth Observatory NASA invites media to an event at the agency’s headquarters at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 13, to learn about a new Disast ...Continue Reading

NASA Sets Coverage for U.S. Spacewalk 90 Outside Space Station *JUN 10, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-080* NASA astronaut pictured completing an installation outside of the International Space Station. Credits: NASA NASA will provide live coverage, beginning at 6:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 13, as two astronauts conduct a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. and last about six and a half hours. NASA will stream the spacewalk on NASA+, NASA Television, ...Continue Reading

NASA Awards Contract for Safety and Mission Assurance Services *JUN 10, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-019* Credits: NASA NASA has selected KBR Wyle Services LLC, of Fulton, Maryland, to provide safety and mission assurance services to the agency. The Safety and Mission Assurance, Audits, Assessments, and Analysis (SA3) Services contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity provision and a maximum potential value of approximately $75.3 million. The three-year base performan ...Continue Reading

NASA Awards Contract for IT Support, Platform Services *JUN 10, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-018* Credits: NASA NASA has selected CACI, Inc. of Chantilly, Virginia, to maintain and improve IT services across the agency. The NASA Consolidated Applications and Platform Services (NCAPS) award is a hybrid firm-fixed price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity provision and a maximum potential value of about $2 billion. The performance period will extend eight years with a 90-da ...Continue Reading

June 8, 2024 _ _ *NASA Administrator Remembers Apollo Astronaut Williams Anders* * * NASA astronaut William Anders   *RELEASE: 24-082*   The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on the passing of Apollo astronaut Maj. Gen. (ret.) William “Bill” Anders, who passed away June 7, in San Juan Islands, Washington state, at the age of 90.   “In 1968, as a member of the Apollo 8 crew, as one of the first three people to travel beyond the reach of our Earth and orbit the Moon, ...Continue Reading

June 7, 2024   *ADVISORY: M24-079* * * *NASA Invites Media to Rollout Event for Artemis II Moon Rocket Stage * * * The core stage is the backbone of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will help power NASA’s Artemis II mission to send a crew of four astronauts around the Moon in 2025. Here, the core stage is currently behind scaffolding to allow work to continue at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The stage’s two massive propellant tanks hold a collective 733,000 gallons of liqui ...Continue Reading

June 7, 2024   *CONTRACT RELEASE: C24-020* * * *NASA Selects Contractor for Lifecycle Services Support* * * NASA has selected Amentum Services Inc. of Chantilly, Virginia, to provide program, science, engineering, operations, and project management support at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.   The Fully Integrated Lifecycle Mission Support Services 2 contract is a single award, hybrid contract, consisting of cost-plus-fixed-fee core requirements and indefinite-del ...Continue Reading

June 7, 2024   *RELEASE: 24-081* * * *NASA Exploring Alternative Mars Sample Return Methods* * * * * * * NASA is moving forward with ten studies to examine more affordable and faster methods of bringing samples from Mars’ surface back to Earth as part of the agency’s Mars Sample Return Program. As part of this effort, NASA will award a firm-fixed-price contract for up to $1.5 million to conduct 90-day studies to seven industry proposers. Additionally, NASA centers, CalTech’s Jet Propulsion La ...Continue Reading

NASA Crew Flight Test Astronauts to Call White House, NASA Leaders *JUN 07, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-078* NASA astronauts Suni Williams (pictured left) and Butch Wilmore (pictured right) launched at 10:52 a.m. EDT June 5 as the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Credits: NASA Following their safe arrival at the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore&n ...Continue Reading