NASA Selects Technology Transfer Services Contractor *MAY 23, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-015* Credits: NASA NASA has awarded the Consolidated Agency Technology Transfer Services contract to Summit Technologies & Solutions, Inc. in Alexandria, Virginia, to provide support for the agency’s Technology Transfer Program. The performance-based firm-fixed price contract has a potential mission services value of $26 million and a maximum potential indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity value of $55 million. ...Continue Reading

May 23, 2024 *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-071* *NASA, Mission Partners to Discuss Starliner Crew Flight Test Progress* * * A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky As NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) continue to evaluate a path toward launching the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, they will host a joint media teleconfere ...Continue Reading

NASA’s Heliophysics Experiment to Study Sun on European Mission *MAY 21, 2024* *RELEASE 24-072* The Joint EUV coronal Diagnostic Investigation (JEDI) will fly aboard the European Space Agency’s Vigil space weather mission and capture new views that will help researchers connect features on the Sun’s surface to those in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Credits: NASA NASA announced Tuesday it selected a new instrument to study the Sun and h ...Continue Reading

NASA Leaders to Host Agency Town Hall on Artificial Intelligence *MAY 21, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-069* Credit: NASA NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy are hosting an employee town hall at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 22, to discuss how the agency is using and developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to advance missions and research. The event will steam live on NASA+, NASA Television, and the agency’s website. The town hall also will feature the NASA experts pioneerin ...Continue Reading

May 20, 2024 * * *CONTRACT RELEASE: C24-013 *   *NASA Selects BAE Systems to Develop Ocean Color Instrument for NOAA * * * NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected BAE Systems (formerly known as Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation) of Boulder, Colorado, to develop an instrument to analyze ocean data as part of NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $450 ...Continue Reading

May 17, 2024   *CONTRACT RELEASE: C24-014* * * *NASA Awards Contracts for Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition Services* * * **** * * NASA has selected four companies to provide spacecraft and related services, including acquiring spacecraft components and equipment, in support of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.   The multiple awards, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity base contracts, are firm-fixed-price with a total combined value of $6 billion. These multi-agency con ...Continue Reading

NASA Earns Best Place to Work in Government for 12 Straight Years *MAY 16, 2024* *RELEASE 24-071* 2023 image capturing the Sun’s glint in between a cloudy stretch of the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina. Credits: NASA NASA was named Thursday as the 2023 Best Place to Work in the Federal Government – large agency – for the 12th year in a row by the Partnership for Public Service. The title serves as a reflection of employee satisfaction with the workplace and functioning of the overall agency as NASA e ...Continue Reading

NASA, European Space Agency Unite to Land Europe’s Rover on Mars *MAY 16, 2024* *RELEASE 24-070* NASA’s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Nicky Fox and ESA’s Director of Human and Robotic Exploration Daniel Neuenschwander sign an agreement on the Rosalind Franklin mission at ESA’s headquarters in Paris, France on May 16, 2024. Credits: ESA/Damien Dos Santos NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) announced Thursday they si ...Continue Reading

Students Across US to Hear from NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station *MAY 16, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-068* An image of NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps using the glovebox BioFabrication Facility in the Columbus European Laboratory during Expedition 71 on April 10, 2024. Credits: NASA/Michael Barratt Students of a volunteer service organization will have the opportunity next week to hear from NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will stream live at 11:40 a.m. EDT ...Continue Reading

*Artemis Accords Reach 40 Signatories as NASA Welcomes Lithuania*   May 15, 2024 *RELEASE: 24-069* * * **** AuÅ¡rinÄ— ArmonaitÄ—, Lithuanian Minister of Economy and Innovation, signs the Artemis Accords in the presence of United States Ambassador Kara C. McDonald at a ceremony in conjunction with Vilnius Space Days. Credit: Lithuanian Innovation Agency   A milestone was reached on Wednesday as Lithuania became the 40th nation to join NASA and the international coalition i ...Continue Reading