NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-082 AUG. 18, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman CRS-23 Station Resupply Launch   Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, soars from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Aug. 4, 2024, for Northrop Grumman’s 21st Commercial Resupply Services mission for NASA. Credit: SpaceX Media accreditation is open for the next launch ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-081 AUG. 15, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in Minnesota   The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission pose for a photo during a training session. Credit: SpaceX NASA astronauts Michael Fincke and Zena Cardman will connect with students in Minnesota as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions aboard the International Space Station.   The Earth-t ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-080 AUG. 14, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Astronauts to Discuss Science Mission   Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, left, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the company’s recovery ship shortly after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, on Aug. 9, 2025. Credit: ...Continue Reading

U.S. Transportation Secretary & Acting NASA Administrator Sean P. Duffy Joins President Trump Executive Order Signing to Boost U.S. Space Competitiveness NASA News   RELEASE 25-057 AUG. 13, 2025 U.S. Transportation Secretary & Acting NASA Administrator Sean P. Duffy Joins President Trump Executive Order Signing to Boost U.S. Space Competitiveness   Credit: NASA U.S. Transportation Secretary and ac ...Continue Reading

NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C25-018 AUG. 11, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Awards Second Human Health, Performance Contract   Credit: NASA NASA has selected KBR Wyle Services, LLC of Fulton, Maryland, to provide services to the Human Health and Performance Directorate at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, which focuses on astronaut health, occupational health, and research that could help mitigate health risks for future human spaceflight ...Continue Reading

NASA Continues Search for Moon-Focused Sustainability Solutions NASA News   RELEASE 25-053 AUG. 11, 2025 TECHNOLOGY NASA Continues Search for Moon-Focused Sustainability Solutions   An artist’s concept of the Moon (right) and Mars (center) against the starry expanse of space. A sliver of the Earth’s horizon can be seen in the foreground. Credit: NASA NASA is accepting U.S. submissions for the second phase ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-055 AUG. 9, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Returns, Splashes Down Off California   The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber ...Continue Reading

NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C25-017 AUG. 8, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Selects Contractors to Supply Centers with Helium   Credit: NASA NASA has chosen a group of contractors to supply multiple agency facilities with liquid and gaseous helium for at least the next two years.   The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid and Gaseous Helium contract is a fixed-price indefinite-delivery requirements contract with firm-fixed-price delivery orders. The ...Continue Reading

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