NASA Welcomes Netherlands as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, Harm van de Wetering, director of the Netherlands Space Office, Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United States Birgitta Tazelaar, and Chiragh Parikh, executive secretary of the National Space Council, pose for a picture after the signing of the Artemis Accords, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, at the Dutch Ambassador’s Residence in Washington. Netherlands is the 31st country to sign ...Continue Reading

Nov. 1, 2023 * * *MEDIA ADVISORY: M23-134* * * *NASA Sets Coverage for Next SpaceX Resupply Launch to Space Station* The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon capsule soars upward after lifting off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 14, 2022, on the company’s 25th Commercial Resupply Services mission for the agency to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 8:44 p.m. EDT. Dragon will deliver more than 5,800 pounds of cargo, including a variety of NASA inve ...Continue Reading

*OCT. 27, 2023* *M23-133*** *Join NASA to Celebrate Worm Design, Influence with Original Designer* **** Dr. Christine Mann Darden holding a model of Mach II in the Unitary Tunnel at NASA’s Langley Research Center on Aug. 18, 1990. Darden is pictured in a lab coat with a NASA ‘worm’ logotype patch across her back. NASA / Carol Petrachenko Chapman   Media are invited to hear a discussion on the design and cultural significance of the worm logotype with NASA and its creator Richard Danne at 11:30 a.m. EST on Mon ...Continue Reading

Oct. 26, 2023 * * *RELEASE: 23-119* * * *Commander Callie Continues Moon Mission in NASA’s New Graphic Novel* * * “Astronaut Callie Rodriguez continues her space adventures as the first woman to walk on the Moon in NASA’s new graphic novel, “First Woman: Expanding Our Universe.”   Fictional astronaut Callie Rodriguez continues exploring space as the first woman to walk on the Moon in a new issue of NASA&acir ...Continue Reading

Oct. 23, 2023 *CONTRACT RELEASE: C23-029* NASA Awards NOAA’s QuickSounder Spacecraft Contract NASA * * * * NASA, on behalf of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), has awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV (Rapid-IV) contract to Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio for the QuickSounder spacecraft. The firm-fixed-price delivery order covers all phases of QuickSounder’s operations to include spacecraft development, int ...Continue Reading

Oct. 23, 2023   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M23-131* * * *New York Students to Hear from Astronaut Aboard Space Station*** NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli works with the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device, or ARED, removing and replacing cables. The device uses adjustable resistive mechanisms to provide crew members a weight load while exercising to maintain muscle strength and mass in microgravity.   Students from Baldwin Union Free School District in Baldwin, New York, will have ...Continue Reading

Oct. 23, 2023 * * *MEDIA ADVISORY: M23-129* * * *NASA Sets Coverage for Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station*** * * (April 18, 2022) — Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev waves to the camera while working outside the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module during a spacewalk that lasted for six hours and 37 minutes to outfit Nauka and configure the European robotic arm on the International Space Station’s Russian segment. NASA will provide live coverage as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside th ...Continue Reading

Oct. 20, 2023 *MEDIA ADVISORY: M23-132* * * *Join NASA to Discuss High-Rate Laser Comms Demo, Space Station Science ***** NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 26, to discuss a laser communications system and new research to understand the interactions between weather on Earth and in space. The investigations are two of many research and technology experiments bound for the International Space Station next month aboard the agency’s SpaceX 29th commercial resupp ...Continue Reading

Oct. 19, 2023 *MEDIA ADVISORY: M23-130* * * *Watch Live as NASA Astronauts Conduct Spacewalk, Upgrade Space Station ***** * * Two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct a spacewalk Monday, Oct. 30, to complete maintenance activities at the orbital complex. Live coverage of the spacewalk begins at 6:30 a.m. EDT on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin about 8:05 a.m., and last about six-and-a-half ...Continue Reading

Oct. 18, 2023/ /*RELEASE: 23-117*/ /*NASA Employees Win Top Federal Award for Asteroid Deflection Mission */ /NASA’s Brian Key and Scott Bellamy accepted the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal on behalf of a mission team for the first planetary defense test during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington on Oct. 17. / /The awards program for career federal employees, known as the Sammies, aims to highlight key accomplishments that benefit the nation, seeks ...Continue Reading