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

NASA Awards Intuitive Machines Lunar South Pole Research Delivery *Aug 29, 2024* *RELEASE 24-110* An artist’s concept of Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander on the Moon’s South Pole. Credit: Intuitive Machines A new set of NASA science experiments and technology demonstrations will arrive at the lunar South Pole in 2027 following the agency’s latest CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative delivery award. Intuitive Machines of Houston will receive $116.9 million to deliver six NASA payloads to a part ...Continue Reading

NASA Assigns Astronaut Jonny Kim to First Space Station Mission *Aug 28, 2024* *RELEASE 24-109* Official portrait of NASA astronaut Jonny Kim in an EMU suit. Credit: NASA During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the upcoming Expedition 72/73 crew. Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft in March 2025, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky. The trio will spend approximately eig ...Continue Reading

Aug. 28, 2024   *MEDIA ADVISORY: **M24-118*   *NASA, SpaceX Extend US Media Deadline for Crew-9 Launch to Station*** * * The SpaceX Dragon Endurance crew ship, carrying four Crew-5 members, approaches the International Space Station with the Earth’s horizon in the background. Credit: NASA/Kjell Lindgren   NASA is extending U.S. media accreditation for the launch of the agency’s ninth rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the Internationa ...Continue Reading

NASA, Blue Origin Invite Media to New Glenn Launch of Mars Mission *Aug 26, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-116* NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) identical dual spacecraft are inspected and processed on dollies in a high bay of the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Aug. 22. As the first multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to Mars, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations ...Continue Reading