NASA Selects Companies for Commercial SmallSat Services Award *Sep 06, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-033* Credit: NASA NASA has selected eight companies for a new award to help acquire Earth observation data and provide related services for the agency. The Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program On-Ramp1 Multiple Award contract is a firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award contract with a maximum value of $476 million, cumulatively amongst all the selected contractors, and a perfor ...Continue Reading

Sept. 6, 2024   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-125* * * *NASA to Take Part in Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony* * * NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at NASA Langley Research Center with a globe, or “Celestial Training Device,” in 1962. Credit: NASA / Langley Research Center   NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will represent the agency during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, recognizing the women who contributed to th ...Continue Reading

NASA Sets Coverage for Crew Launch; Trio to Join Expedition 71 *Sep 06, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-123* The Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station with (pictured left to right) NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan V ...Continue Reading

*NASA Invites Media to Discuss Europa Clipper Mission* * * Sept. 6, 2024 MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-124 Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech   NASA will hold a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Monday, Sept. 9, to provide an update on Europa Clipper, a mission that will study whether Jupiter’s moon Europa could be hospitable to life. The teleconference will occur after a key decision point meeting earlier that day regarding next steps for the mission. Audio of the tele ...Continue Reading

NASA Selects Langley Research Center Support Contractor *Sep 05, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-031* Credit: NASA NASA has awarded the Center, Operations Maintenance, and Engineering II contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to support operations at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $973.7 million. Following a phase-in period that starts Tuesday, Oct. 1 ...Continue Reading

Sept. 5, 2024   RELEASE: 24-112   *New Hardware for Future Artemis Moon Missions Arrive at NASA Kennedy** * * * On the left, the Canopee transport carrier containing the European Service Module for NASA’s Artemis III mission arrives at Port Canaveral in Florida, on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, before completing the last leg of its journey to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center’s Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout via truck. On the right, NASA’s Pegasus barge, carrying several pieces of hardware for Art ...Continue Reading

NASA Invites Media to View Launch of Jupiter Moon Mission *Sep 03, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-120* Technicians test a set of massive solar arrays measuring about 46.5 feet (14.2 meters) long and about 13.5 feet (4.1 meters) high for NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the agency’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 7. Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA and SpaceX are targeting a launch period opening Thursday, Oct. 10, for the agency’s Europa Clipper mission, which will h ...Continue Reading

NASA Sets Coverage for Starliner News Conference, Return to Earth *Aug 30, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-121* The American flag pictured inside the window of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA NASA will provide live coverage of the upcoming activities for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft departure from the International Space Station and return to Earth. The uncrewed spacecraft will depart from the orbiting laboratory for a landing at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. Star ...Continue Reading

Aug. 30, 2024 * * *RELEASE: 24-111*   *CORRECTION: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Changes Ahead of September Launch* * * NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov (Credit: NASA) * * /Editor’s note:/ This release was updated on Aug. 30, 2024, to correct Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov’s role to mission specialist.**   NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier th ...Continue Reading

Aug. 30, 2024 * * *RELEASE: 24-111*   *NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Changes Ahead of September Launch* * * Portraits of NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. (Credit: NASA) * * NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, previously announced as ...Continue Reading