NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Releases 2023 Annual Report *JAN 25, 2024* *RELEASE 24-010* The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, issued its 2023 annual report Thursday examining the agency’s safety performance, accomplishments, and challenges over the past year.  The report highlights 2023 activities and observations on NASA’s: Strategic Vision and Guiding Principles Agency Governance M ...Continue Reading

NASA Sets Coverage for Northrop Grumman Cargo Space Station Mission *JAN 24, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-017* Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo craft is pictured from the International Space Station as it approaches while orbiting 261 miles above the coast of the Garabogazköl Basin in Turkmenistan. NASA NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting 12:29 p.m. EST on Monday, Jan. 29, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station for the ...Continue Reading

Jan. 24, 2024   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-016*   *NASA, Sierra Space Invite Media to See Spaceplane for Cargo Missions* * * NASA and Sierra Space team members move the Dream Chaser spaceplane into NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. Credits: Sierra Space/Shay Saldana   As part of NASA's efforts to expand commercial resupply in low Earth orbit, media are invited to view Sierra Space’s uncrewed commercial spaceplane ahead of its first demonstration flight for the agency to the Interna ...Continue Reading

NASA Welcomes Belgium as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory *JAN 24, 2024* *RELEASE 24-016* From left to right: Tim Richardson, chargé d’affaires, U.S. Embassy Belgium, Raphaël Liégeois, Belgian astronaut, Thomas Dermine, Belgian secretary of state for science policy, Hadja Lahbib, Belgian minister of foreign affairs, and Frank De Winne, Belgian astronaut, during the Artemis Accords signing ceremony in Brussels. Credits: Nathan De Fortunato During a ceremony at the Museum of Fin ...Continue Reading

NASA Invites Media to First Intuitive Machines, SpaceX Moon Launch *JAN 22, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-011* The Nova-C lunar lander is seen in the high bay of Intuitive Machines Headquarters in Houston, before it shipped to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for integration with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for launch, as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign. Credit: Intuitive Machines As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis ...Continue Reading

NASA to Observe Day of Remembrance, Host Employee Safety Town Hall  Roxana Bardan *JAN 19, 2024* *RELEASE 24-014 * NASA Administrator Bill Nelson lays a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial during NASA’s Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Wreaths were laid in memory of those men and women who lost their lives in the quest for space exploration. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani) In honor of the members of the NAS ...Continue Reading

NASA Science, Astrobotic Peregrine Mission One Concludes *JAN 19, 2024* *RELEASE 24-012* Cameras aboard Peregrine capture the American flag and the NASA insignia on one of the lander’s tanks to signify America’s return to the Moon. Credits: Astrobotic The first flight of NASA’s commercial lunar delivery service carrying agency science and technology, as well as other customer payloads intended for the Moon, has come to an end. After 10 days and 13 hours in space, Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One made a controlled ...Continue Reading

Jan. 19, 2024   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-013* * * *Boston Students to Hear from NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station* * * NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara scrubs spacesuit cooling loops in preparation for a round of spacewalks. NASA * * Students, staff, and researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and two local public schools in Boston will have an opportunity next week to hear from NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara aboard the International Space S ...Continue Reading

NASA, Partners to Welcome Private Crew Aboard Space Station *JAN 18, 2024* *RELEASE 24-013* Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3), the third all private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, lifts off at 4:49 p.m. EST on Thursday, Jan. 18, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA As part of NASA’s efforts to enable more access to space, four private astronauts are in orbit following the successful launch of the third all private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. A ...Continue Reading

NASA Administrator Names New Head of Space Technology JAN 16, 2024 *RELEASE 24-009* * * Kurt Vogel portrait, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)   Dr. Kurt “Spuds” Vogel will serve as the new associate administrator of the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Tuesday. His appointment is effective immediately. Vogel succeeds James Reuter, w ...Continue Reading