NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C25-005 FEB. 21, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Awards Planetary Defense Space Telescope Launch Services Contract Credit: NASA NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to Earth. The firm fixed price launch service task order is being awarded under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity NASA Launch Se ...Continue Reading

NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Next Commercial Moon Launch NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-025 FEB. 21, 2025 SCIENCE NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Next Commercial Moon Launch Caption: The Intuitive Machines lunar lander that will deliver NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign is encapsulated in the fairing of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: Spac ...Continue Reading

NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C25-004 FEB. 21, 2025 EARTH & CLIMATE NASA Awards Delivery Order for NOAA’s Space Weather Program Credit: NASA NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has awarded a delivery order to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. of Boulder, Colorado, to build spacecraft for the Lagrange 1 Series project as a part of NOAA’s Space Weather Next program. The award made under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contract, has ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-023 FEB. 20, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Invites Media to Simulated Mars Habitat Before Next Mission The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) team hosts a Media Day at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on April 11, 2023. Credit: NASA Media are invited to visit NASA’s simulated Mars habitat on Monday, March 10, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The simulation will help prepare humanity for future missions to the Red Planet.   ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-017 FEB 19, 2025 NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free to Retire After 30 Years Service   Official portrait of NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free, taken on Nov. 22, 2024, at the agency's headquarters in Washington. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free announced Wednesday his retirement, effective Saturday, Feb. 22. As associate administrator, Free has been the senior advisor to NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro and leads NASA’s 10 cente ...Continue Reading

NASA Sets Briefings for Next International Space Station Crew Missions NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-024 FEB. 18, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Sets Briefings for Next International Space Station Crew Missions Official crew portrait for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. Credit: NASA NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming Expedit ...Continue Reading

NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Missions Studying Cosmic Origins, Sun NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-022 FEB. 18, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Missions Studying Cosmic Origins, Sun NASA’s SPHEREx is situated on a work stand ahead of prelaunch operations at the Astrotech Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The SPHEREx space telescope will share its ride to space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA’s PUNCH mission. Credit: USSF 30th Space Wing ...Continue Reading

With a suite of NASA science and technology on board, Firefly Aerospace is targeting no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, to land the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon. NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-021 FEB 14, 2025 ARTEMIS NASA Sets Coverage of Firefly’s First Robotic Commercial Moon Landing Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captured a bright image of the Moon’s South Pole (on the far left) through the cameras on its top deck, while it travels to the Moon as part of NA ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-016 FEB. 12, 2025 TECHNOLOGY NASA’s Advancements in Space Continue Generating Products on Earth   The cover of Spinoff 2025, NASA’s annual publication that chronicles commercial products born from space technology, is a detailed view of the lunar surface captured by cameras on the Orion spacecraft on a close approach of the Moon during the Artemis I mission. Credit: NASA The latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff publication, which highlights the successful transfer of a ...Continue Reading

NASA Invites Media to Artemis II Moon Mission Activities at Kennedy NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-020 FEB. 11, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Invites Media to Artemis II Moon Mission Activities at Kennedy A massive crane lifts NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moves it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The ...Continue Reading