NASA Hosts Astronaut Don Pettit Prelaunch Interviews *Aug 09, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-109* NASA astronaut Don Pettit during crew qualification exams at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Credits: GCTC/Roscosmos NASA astronaut Don Pettit is available for limited interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September. The virtual interviews will stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agen ...Continue Reading

NASA Mission Concludes After Years of Successful Asteroid Detections *Aug 08, 2024* *RELEASE 24-100* This final image captured by NASA’s NEOWISE shows part of the Fornax constellation in the Southern Hemisphere. Processed by IPAC at Caltech, this is the mission’s 26,886,704th exposure. It was taken by the spacecraft just before 3 a.m. EDT on Aug. 1, when the mission’s survey ended. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC/UCLA Engineers on NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission commande ...Continue Reading

Aug. 8, 2024 * * *RELEASE: 24-104* *Calling All Innovators: Apply for NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Challenge * * * A college team dressed in protective clean room suits prepares their robotic rover to compete in the final round of NASA’s annual Lunabotics competition on Thursday, May 16, 2024. Teams score points when their rover completes challenging tasks inside the Artemis Arena – a simulated lunar landscape inside The Astronauts Memorial Foundationâ ...Continue Reading

NASA to Provide Crew Flight Test, Space Station Missions Update *Aug 06, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-107* The International Space Station was pictured flying 263 miles above the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Credit: NASA NASA will host a media teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 7, to discuss ongoing International Space Station operations, including the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test and NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission.   Audio of the briefing will stream live on NASA’s website. Agenc ...Continue Reading

NASA Seeks Student Missions to Send to Space in 2026, Beyond *Aug 05, 2024* *RELEASE 24-102* Technicians with the University of Kansas prepare their KUbeSat-1 for integration at Firefly’s Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Credit: NASA NASA announced a new round of opportunities for CubeSat, developers to build spacecrafts on that will fly on upcoming launches through the agency’s CSLI (CubeSat Launch Initiative). CubeSats ...Continue Reading

Aug. 5, 2024   *RELEASE: 24-101* * * *NASA Engagement Platform Brings Experts to Classrooms, Communities* * * NASA Technical Group Supervisor for Sequence Planning and Execution and Tactical Mission Lead for the Mars Perseverance rover, Diana Trujillo, speaks to students at Rolling Terrace Elementary School, Monday, March 13, 2023, in Takoma Park, Maryland. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani) NASA/Aubrey Gemignani * * With a new school year on the horizon, NASA is introducing a platform to conne ...Continue Reading

NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 21st Northrop Grumman Mission to Station *Aug 04, 2024* *RELEASE 24-103* Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft for the company’s 21st commercial resupply services mission for NASA launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Credit: NASA Following a successful launch of NASA’s Northrop Grumman 21st commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for the agency are bound for the International Space S ...Continue Reading

*NASA Invites Media, Public to Attend Deep Space Food Challenge Finale* *Aug 02, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-106* NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge directly supports the agency’s Moon to Mars initiatives. Credit: NASA NASA invites the media and public to explore the nexus of space and food innovation at the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge symposium and winners’ announcement at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus, Ohio, ...Continue Reading

*NASA Shares its SpaceX Crew-10 Assignments for Space Station Mission* *Aug 01, 2024* *RELEASE 24-099* NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members (pictured from left to right) NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, NASA astronaut Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi Credit: NASA As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission, four crew members are preparing to launch for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Commander  ...Continue Reading

NASA Sets Coverage for Northrop Grumman’s 21st Station Resupply Launch *Jul 30, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-105* Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm shortly after being captured at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting 11:28 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 3, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This launch is t ...Continue Reading