NASA News   RELEASE 25-056 AUG. 8, 2025 Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell   Portrait of NASA astronaut Jim Lovell. Credit: NASA The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97 years old.   “NASA sends its condolences to the family of Capt. Jim Lovell, whose li ...Continue Reading

NASA Invites Media to View Heliophysics, NOAA Space Weather Missions NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-078 AUG. 8, 2025 SCIENCE NASA Invites Media to View Heliophysics, NOAA Space Weather Missions   Technicians at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida conduct illumination testing on Friday, July 18, 2025, by flashing a bright light that simulates the Sun into the two-panel solar array that ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-077 AUG. 6, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-10 Return, Splashdown   From left, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi share a light moment during a group portrait inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module. Credit: NASA NASA and ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-054 AUG. 5, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Selects Six Companies to Provide Orbital Transfer Vehicle Studies    Credit: NASA NASA has selected six companies to produce studies focused on lower-cost ways to launch and deliver spacecraft of various sizes and forms to multiple, difficult-to-reach orbits. The firm-fixed-price awards comprise nine studies with a maximum total value of approximately $1.4 million. The awardees are: ...Continue Reading

NASA News   ADVISORY M25-076 AUG. 4, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Opens Simulated Mars Habitat to Media Ahead of Second Mission   The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) team hosts a media day at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2023. Credit: NASA As NASA prepares for its second year-long Mars simulated mission, media are invited to visit the ground-based habitat where the mission will take place, on Friday, Aug. 22, at the agency’s Johnson Space Ce ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-052 AUG. 1, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Launches to International Space Station   A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov onboard, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, from NASA's Kennedy Space ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-051 JULY 30, 2025 SCIENCE NASA-ISRO Satellite Lifts Off to Track Earth’s Changing Surfaces    The Indian Space Research Organisation’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on India’s southeastern coast at 8:10 a.m. EDT (5:40 a.m. IST), July 30, 2025. Credit: ISRO Carrying an advanced radar system that will produce a dynamic, three-dimensional view of Earth in unpreceden ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-046 JULY 29, 2025 SCIENCE NASA Selects Firefly for New Artemis Science, Tech Delivery to Moon   This artist’s concept of Blue Ghost Mission 4 shows Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander and NASA payloads in the lunar South Pole Region, through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. Credit: Firefly Aerospace NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, $176.7 million to deliver two rovers an ...Continue Reading

Join Second Lady Usha Vance as She Reads to Children at NASA Johnson NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-075 JULY 28, 2025 Join Second Lady Usha Vance as She Reads to Children at NASA Johnson   As part of her Summer Reading Challenge, Second Lady Usha Vance will host an event for children in grades K-8 on Monday, Aug. 4, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: White House As part of her Su ...Continue Reading

NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C25-016 JULY 28, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Selects Human Space Flight Technical Integration Contractor   Credit: NASA NASA has selected Barrios Technology, LLC, in Houston to provide technical integration services for the agency’s human space flight programs.  The Mission Technical Integration Contract is a cost-plus-award-fee and cost-plus-incentive fee contract with core and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qua ...Continue Reading