New NASA Mission will Study Ultraviolet Sky, Stars, Stellar Explosions *FEB 13, 2024* *RELEASE 24-028* This image shows the heart of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097, as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Sand, K. Sheth As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky will provide the agency with more insight into how galaxies and stars evolve. The space telescope, called UVEX (UltraViolet EXplorer), is targeted to ...Continue Reading

Feb. 13, 2024 *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-022* *NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 30th Resupply Launch to Space Station* * * A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company’s Dragon spacecraft atop, is raised to a vertical position at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on March 13, 2023, in preparation for the 27th commercial resupply services launch to the International Space Station. SpaceX Media accreditation is open at NASA’s Kennedy Spa ...Continue Reading

Feb. 12, 2024   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-024*   *NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 87 Launch, Space Station Docking* * * The Progress 84 cargo craft is pictured shortly after undocking from the International Space Station’s Poisk Module at 2:55 a.m. EST. NASA * * NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station.   The unpiloted Progress 87 resupply ...Continue Reading

Feb. 12, 2024   *RELEASE: 24-027* * * *NASA Administrator Names New Head of Small Business Programs* * * Assistant Administrator for NASA’s Office of Small Business Programs, Dwight Deneal, poses for portrait, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) * * NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday Dwight Deneal will serve as the new assistant administrator for the Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) at the ag ...Continue Reading

NASA Welcomes Greece as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory Roxana Bardan *FEB 09, 2024* *RELEASE 24-022* (From left) Ioannis Daglis, president of the Hellenic Space Center, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, watch as Giorgos Gerapetritis, Greek foreign minister, signs the Artemis Accords on the margins of the U.S.-Greece Strategic Dialogue at the Department of State in Washington, Feb. 9, 2024. Credits: Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy NASA Administrator Bill ...Continue Reading

NASA Awards Inaugural Grants to Support Emerging Research Institutions *FEB 08, 2024* *RELEASE **24-023* NASA NASA has awarded $3.7 million to 11 teams to support new collaborations between the agency and United States institutions not historically part of the agency’s research enterprise. These are the first awards given through a new program from the agency’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) to improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the science and engineering communities, as well as NASA’s w ...Continue Reading

Feb. 8, 2024 * * *RELEASE: 24-021*** ** *NASA Launches New Climate Mission to Study Ocean, Atmosphere*** * * NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 1:33 a.m. EST, Feb. 8, 2024, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. From its orbit hundreds of miles above Earth, PACE will study microscopic life in the oceans and microscopic particles in the atmosphere to investigate key mysteries of our planet’s ...Continue Reading

NASA Sets Coverage for SpaceX, Intuitive Machines First Moon Mission *FEB 07, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-023* The Nova-C lunar lander is encapsulated within the fairing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in preparation for launch, as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign. SpaceX As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, SpaceX is targeting no earlier than 12:57 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 14, for a Falcon 9 launch of Intuitive ...Continue Reading

Feb. 7, 2024 *CONTRACT RELEASE: C24-006* *NASA Selects Agencywide Acquisition Support Services Contractor*** * * **** * * NASA has selected 8(a) vendor Seventh Sense Consulting LLC of Woodbridge, Virginia, to provide acquisition support services for non-inherently governmental functions across the agency.   The contractor will provide services agencywide, including document development support, procurement administrative services, acquisition policy support, procurement operations support, procur ...Continue Reading

New Artemis Generation Astronauts to Graduate, NASA Sets Coverage *FEB 07, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-021* NASA’s astronaut candidate class is pictured at an event near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Dec. 7, 2021. NASA will honor the next generation of Artemis astronaut candidates to graduate at 10:30 a.m. EST Tuesday, March 5, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. After completing more than two years of basic training, these candidates will earn their wings and become eligible for spaceflight, ...Continue Reading