NASA Awards Contract for IT Support, Platform Services *JUN 10, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-018* Credits: NASA NASA has selected CACI, Inc. of Chantilly, Virginia, to maintain and improve IT services across the agency. The NASA Consolidated Applications and Platform Services (NCAPS) award is a hybrid firm-fixed price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity provision and a maximum potential value of about $2 billion. The performance period will extend eight years with a 90-da ...Continue Reading

June 8, 2024 _ _ *NASA Administrator Remembers Apollo Astronaut Williams Anders* * * NASA astronaut William Anders   *RELEASE: 24-082*   The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on the passing of Apollo astronaut Maj. Gen. (ret.) William “Bill” Anders, who passed away June 7, in San Juan Islands, Washington state, at the age of 90.   “In 1968, as a member of the Apollo 8 crew, as one of the first three people to travel beyond the reach of our Earth and orbit the Moon, ...Continue Reading

June 7, 2024   *ADVISORY: M24-079* * * *NASA Invites Media to Rollout Event for Artemis II Moon Rocket Stage * * * The core stage is the backbone of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will help power NASA’s Artemis II mission to send a crew of four astronauts around the Moon in 2025. Here, the core stage is currently behind scaffolding to allow work to continue at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The stage’s two massive propellant tanks hold a collective 733,000 gallons of liqui ...Continue Reading

June 7, 2024   *CONTRACT RELEASE: C24-020* * * *NASA Selects Contractor for Lifecycle Services Support* * * NASA has selected Amentum Services Inc. of Chantilly, Virginia, to provide program, science, engineering, operations, and project management support at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.   The Fully Integrated Lifecycle Mission Support Services 2 contract is a single award, hybrid contract, consisting of cost-plus-fixed-fee core requirements and indefinite-del ...Continue Reading

June 7, 2024   *RELEASE: 24-081* * * *NASA Exploring Alternative Mars Sample Return Methods* * * * * * * NASA is moving forward with ten studies to examine more affordable and faster methods of bringing samples from Mars’ surface back to Earth as part of the agency’s Mars Sample Return Program. As part of this effort, NASA will award a firm-fixed-price contract for up to $1.5 million to conduct 90-day studies to seven industry proposers. Additionally, NASA centers, CalTech’s Jet Propulsion La ...Continue Reading

NASA Crew Flight Test Astronauts to Call White House, NASA Leaders *JUN 07, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-078* NASA astronauts Suni Williams (pictured left) and Butch Wilmore (pictured right) launched at 10:52 a.m. EDT June 5 as the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Credits: NASA Following their safe arrival at the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore&n ...Continue Reading

June 7, 2024 *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-074* *NASA to Discuss Upcoming Spacewalks for Station Repairs, Upgrades* Astronaut waves during a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station (Credits: NASA) NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct three spacewalks targeted for June. NASA will discuss the upcoming spacewalks during a news conference at 4 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 11.* *Live coverage will air on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website. Learn ...Continue Reading

June 7, 2024 * * *CONTRACT RELEASE: C24-016* * * *NASA Awards Contracts for Acquisition of Liquid Nitrogen, Oxygen* * * * *   NASA has awarded contracts to six companies to supply liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen in support of operations at agency centers and facilities across the United States. The indefinite-delivery/fixed-price contract runs from Monday, July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2029.   The awards and approximate maximum contract values are: Air Products and Chemicals Inc., Al ...Continue Reading

LIFTOFF! NASA Astronauts Pilot First Starliner Crewed Test to Station *JUN 05, 2024* *RELEASE 24-080* A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Florida. NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test is the first launch with astronauts of the Boeing CFT-100 spacecraft and United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Cre ...Continue Reading

*NASA Launches Second Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles* * * *JUN 05, 2024* *RELEASE 24-077*** * * Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 1 at Māhia, New Zealand at 11:15 p.m. NZST June 5, 2024, carrying a small satellite for NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission.  RocketLab   The second of NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraR ...Continue Reading