NASA Awards University Research Projects to Support Agency Missions *JUN 04, 2024* *RELEASE 24-079* Credits: NASA NASA announced the recipients of the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) grants, which will support scientific and technical research projects for more than 20 universities and organizations across the United States. “NASA’s EPSCoR awards are a tool to strengthen research capacity in areas across our nation that have historically been underrepresented in government research,” ...Continue Reading

NASA Updates Coverage for Crew Flight Test Launch, Docking to Station *JUN 03, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-076* A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is pictured from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will launch aboard Starliner for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA will provide live coverage of launch activities for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, whic ...Continue Reading

June 3, 2024 * * *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-077* * * *NASA Invites Media to Discuss Hubble Operations Update* * * An STS-125 crew member aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis captured this image of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on May 19, 2009. Credit: NASA NASA will hold a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 4, to provide an update on operations for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. NASA anticipates Hubble will continue making discoveries, working with other observatories such as the agency’s J ...Continue Reading

NASA Awards Advance Technologies for Future Habitable Worlds Mission *MAY 31, 2024* *RELEASE 24-078* This artist’s concept features one of multiple initial possible design options for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab NASA announced Friday it selected three industry proposals to help develop technologies for future large space telescopes and plan for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory mission concept, which could be the first space telescope ...Continue Reading

NASA Welcomes Slovakia as New Artemis Accords Signatory *MAY 30, 2024* *RELEASE 24-076* From left to right, Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to the United States Radovan Javorcik, Slovak Republic Minister of Education, Research, Development, and Youth Tomáš Drucker, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and United States Department of State Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Sonata Coulter pose for a photo during an Artemis Accords signing ceremony, Thurs ...Continue Reading

May 30, 2024 *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-073*   *NASA Updates Coverage for Boeing’s Starliner Launch, Docking* * * Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew ship approaches the International Space Station on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission before automatically docking to the Harmony module’s forward port.   NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, whi ...Continue Reading

NASA Welcomes Peru as 41st Artemis Accords Signatory *MAY 30, 2024* *RELEASE 24-075* From left to right, Ambassador of Peru to the United States Alfredo Ferrero Diez Canseco, Peruvian Foreign Minister Javier González-Olaechea, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and United States Department of State Acting Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Jennifer R. Littlejohn, pose for a photo during an Artemis Accords signing ceremony, Thursday, May 30, 2 ...Continue Reading

May 28, 2024 *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-070* *NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 88 Launch, Space Station Docking* * * The Progress 85 cargo craft is seen shortly after undocking from International Space Station on Feb. 12 as it was orbiting 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean. NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 71 crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Progress 88 spacecraf ...Continue Reading

*NASA Launches Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles***   *May 25, 2024* *RELEASE: 24-074* * * **** Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 1 at Māhia, New Zealand at 7:41 p.m. NZST May 25, 2024 (3:41 a.m. EDT) carrying a small satellite for NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission. Rocket Lab   The first of a pair of climate satellites designed to study heat emissi ...Continue Reading

*NASA Engages in Artemis Accords Workshop to Advance Exploration * * * *May 24, 2024 * *RELEASE: 24-073* * * **** Representatives from 24 of the Artemis Accords signatories met May 21-23, 2024, for a workshop hosted at the John H. Chapman Space Centre (CSA Headquarters) in Longueuil, Quebec. CSA (Canadian Space Agency) NASA participated in the second international face-to-face workshop this week among Artemis Accords signatories, which featured space officials from two dozen nations focused on advancing the ...Continue Reading