June 12, 2024 *RELEASE: 24-083* * * NASA Welcomes Armenia as 43rd Artemis Accords Signatory Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Jennifer Littlejohn, left, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to the United States Lilit Makunts, right, look on as Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, Minister of High-Tech Industry of the Republic of Armenia, signs the Artemis Accords, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at the Mary W. Jacks ...Continue Reading

NASA Selects Raytheon Company to Build Landsat Next Instruments JUN 12, 2024 CONTRACT RELEASE C24-017 Credits: NASA NASA selects Raytheon Company to provide three instruments and related services, with an option for one additional instrument, in support of the Landsat Next mission based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The contract includes a cost-plus-award-fee base period and a cost-plus-fixed-fee option period with a total value of $506.7 million. The contractor will provide the des ...Continue Reading

June 11, 2024   *RELEASE: 24-085* * * *NASA Selects 2024 Small Business, Research Teams for Tech Development* * * NASA logo. Credit: NASA * * NASA will award funding to nearly 250 small business teams to develop new technologies to address agency priorities, such as carbon neutrality and energy storage for various applications in space and on Earth. The new awards from NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program invest in a diverse portfo ...Continue Reading

NASA Funds Study of Proposals to Investigate Space Weather Systems *JUN 11, 2024* *RELEASE 24-084* Aurora and airglow are seen from the International Space Station in 2015. Credits: NASA/JSC/ESRS NASA has selected three proposals for concept studies of missions to investigate the complex system of space weather that surrounds our planet and how it’s connected to Earth’s atmosphere. The three concepts propose how to enact the DYNAMIC (Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling) mission, which was recommended by ...Continue Reading

NASA Invites Media for Launch of New Disaster Response System *JUN 11, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-081* Hurricane Idalia brought significant storm surge, heavy rains, and strong winds to Florida as a Category 3 hurricane in 2023. This image is from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite, acquired at 11:35 a.m. EDT on Aug. 29, 2023. Credits: NASA Earth Observatory NASA invites media to an event at the agency’s headquarters at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 13, to learn about a new Disast ...Continue Reading

NASA Sets Coverage for U.S. Spacewalk 90 Outside Space Station *JUN 10, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-080* NASA astronaut pictured completing an installation outside of the International Space Station. Credits: NASA NASA will provide live coverage, beginning at 6:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 13, as two astronauts conduct a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. and last about six and a half hours. NASA will stream the spacewalk on NASA+, NASA Television, ...Continue Reading

NASA Awards Contract for Safety and Mission Assurance Services *JUN 10, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-019* Credits: NASA NASA has selected KBR Wyle Services LLC, of Fulton, Maryland, to provide safety and mission assurance services to the agency. The Safety and Mission Assurance, Audits, Assessments, and Analysis (SA3) Services contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity provision and a maximum potential value of approximately $75.3 million. The three-year base performan ...Continue Reading

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