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, Thursday, May 30, 2024, a ...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, which will carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to and from the I ...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, 2024, at ...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 emissions at Earth�??s poles for NASA is in orbit after lifting o ...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

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 how it creates massive solar eruptions. The agency�??s Joint EUV ...Continue Reading