NASA Administrator, Leaders to Discuss Space-Based Cancer Research *JUL 10, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-095* NASA Administrator Bill Nelson delivers remarks during an event with Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to highlight how the agencies are making progress toward the Biden Cancer Moonshot on March 21 in the Earth Information Center at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. NASA is working with agencies and researchers across the federal government to help cut ...Continue Reading

July 8, 2024   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-093* * * *NASA, Boeing Provide Next Update on Space Station Crew Flight Test* * * Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard, approaches the International Space Station for an autonomous docking as it orbited 257 miles above the South Pacific Ocean. * * Leadership from NASA and Boeing will participate in a media briefing at 12:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 10, to discuss the agency’s Crew Flight Test at the Internat ...Continue Reading

July 8, 2024 * * *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-092* *NASA to Cover Northrop Grumman�??s 20th Cargo Space Station Departure* * * Northrop Grumman�??s Cygnus spacecraft and the International Space Station above western Mongolia (Credits: NASA).   Northrop Grumman�??s uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Friday, July 12, five and a half months after delivering more than 8,200 pounds of supplies, scientific investigations, commercial products, hardware, and other car ...Continue Reading

NASA Announces its Artemis II Backup Crew Member for Moon Mission *JUL 03, 2024* *RELEASE 24-092* NASA astronaut Andre Douglas poses for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA has selected astronaut Andre Douglas as its backup crew member for the agency’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis campaign. Douglas will train alongside NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) ...Continue Reading

July 2, 2024    *ADVISORY: M24-087***   *Volunteer Crew to Exit NASA�??s Simulated Mars Habitat After 378 Days * The first CHAPEA mission crew members who have been living and working inside NASA�??s first simulated yearlong Mars habitat mission are set to exit their ground-based home on Saturday, July 6.   The four volunteers who have been living and working inside NASA�??s first simulated yearlong Mars habitat mission are set to exit their ground-based home on Saturday, July 6. NASA will p ...Continue Reading

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Space Telescope Mission *JUL 02, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-026* Credits: NASA NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) mission. The firm-fixed-price contract has a value of approximately $69 million, which includes launch services and other mission related costs. The COSI mission currently is targeted to launch August 2027 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 ro ...Continue Reading

July 2, 2024 *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-090* *NASA�??s Boeing Test Flight Crew to Discuss Starliner Mission from Space*** * * NASA�??s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts (from top) Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station�??s Harmony module and the Starliner spacecraft (Credits: NASA). Media are invited to hear from NASA�??s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts discussing their mission during an Earth to space call at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, July ...Continue Reading

NASA Awards Support STEM Research at Minority Serving Institutions *JUL 01, 2024* *RELEASE 24-091* A photo of MPLAN principal investigator awardees from various minority-serving institutions at the 2023 NASA Better Together conference in San Jose, California. Credits: NASA NASA has selected 23 minority-serving institutions to receive $1.2 million to grow their research and technology capabilities, collaborate on research projects, and contribute to the agency’s missions for the benefit of humanity. Through NASA’s ...Continue Reading

July 1, 2024   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-089*   *NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman�??s 21st Station Resupply Launch* * * Northrop Grumman�??s Cygnus spacecraft approaches the International Space Station. Cygnus will deliver science experiments, crew supplies, and station hardware (Credits: NASA).   Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This launch is the 21st Northrop Grumman commercial re ...Continue Reading

NASA Awards Contract for Infrared Telescope Facility Operations *JUN 28, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-025* Credits: NASA NASA has selected the University of Hawaii in Honolulu to maintain and operate the agency’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea in Hilo, Hawaii. The Management and Operations of NASA’s IRTF is a hybrid firm-fixed-price contract with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity provision. The contract has a maximum potential value of approximately $85.5 million, with a base period of perfo ...Continue Reading