September 24, 2023 RELEASE 23-109*NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room*53210883020_0f6135cb13_o.jpgThe sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.*/Credits: NASA/Keegan Barbe ...Continue Reading

 September 22, 2023 MEDIA ADVISORY M23-122*NASA Scientists to Discuss Oct. 14 'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse*74_annular_eclipse_detail.jpgAn annular “ring of fire” solar eclipse on May 20, 2012.*/Credits: NASA/Bill Dunford/*NASA will host a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 26, to discuss the upcoming annular solar eclipse. The annular eclipse will cross the U.S. from Oregon to Texas on Saturday, Oct. 14, with a partial solar eclipse visible th ...Continue Reading

 September 22, 2023 MEDIA ADVISORY M23-121*Record-Setting NASA Astronaut Soon Returns to Earth; Watch Live*52974499951_279400810e_o.jpgNASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio poses for a portrait while working inside the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory module.*/Credits: NASA/*Now the record-holder for the longest single spaceflight by an American, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is scheduled to depart the International Space Station and return to Earth Wednesday, ...Continue Reading

 September 18, 2023 MEDIA ADVISORY M23-120*NASA Finalizes Coverage for First US Asteroid Sample Landing*osiris_rex_training_model.jpgA training model of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule is seen during a drop test on Aug. 30, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range in preparation for the retrieval of the actual capsule on Sept. 24.*/Credits: NASA/Keegan Barber/*The first asteroid sample collected in space by NASA will arrive on Earth Sunday, Sept. 24, and there are mu ...Continue Reading

 September 15, 2023 RELEASE 23-107*NASA Astronaut, Crewmates Reach Space Station for Science Expedition*53189631208_a9abfb7da5_k.jpgThe Soyuz rocket is launched with Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.*/Credits: NASA/*NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and two cosmonauts safely arrived at the International Space Station Friday, Sept. 15, bringing its number ...Continue Reading

 September 15, 2023 MEDIA ADVISORY M23-119*NASA to Discuss Optical Communications Demo Riding with Psyche*psyche-2021-12-30-163833_-_img_1763.jpgThe flight transceiver for NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications demonstration can be identified by its large tube-like sunshade on the Psyche spacecraft, seen here inside a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.*/Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/*NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p ...Continue Reading

 September 15, 2023 RELEASE 23-104*NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson Receives Second Space Station Assignment*jsc2023e052359.jpgNASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is assigned to a mission to the International Space Station as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 70/71 crew. Dyson will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft.*/Credits: NASA/Andrey Shelepin/*NASA has assigned astronaut Tracy C. Dyson to her second long-duration mission to the International Space Station as a flight engineer ...Continue Reading

 September 15, 2023 MEDIA ADVISORY M23-118*NASA’s Record-Breaking Astronaut to Discuss Yearlong Mission*iss068e020504orig.jpgNASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is pictured inside the International Space Station's U.S. Destiny laboratory module.*/Credits: NASA/*NASA astronaut Frank Rubio will speak to media about his record-breaking mission aboard the International Space Station during an Earth-to-space call at 12:15 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 19. The virtu ...Continue Reading

 September 14, 2023 RELEASE 23-102*NASA Welcomes Germany as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory*german_aa_signing_group_photo.jpgFrom left to right, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, National Space Council (NSpC) Executive Secretary Chirag Parikh, Federal Government Coordinator of German Aerospace Policy Anna Christmann, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Director General of the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Walther P ...Continue Reading

 September 14, 2023 RELEASE 23-106*UPDATE: NASA Shares UAP Independent Study Report; Names Director*nasa_meatball_1.jpeg*/Credits: NASA/*Editor’s note: This release was updated on Sept. 14, 2023, to include details about the UAP research director.In response to a recommendation by an independent study team for NASA to play a more prominent role in understanding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), the agency announced Thursday it is appointing a director of UAP research.The s ...Continue Reading