Oct. 23, 2023   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M23-131* * * *New York Students to Hear from Astronaut Aboard Space Station*** NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli works with the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device, or ARED, removing and replacing cables. The device uses adjustable resistive mechanisms to provide crew members a weight load while exercising to maintain muscle strength and mass in microgravity.   Students from Baldwin Union Free School District in Baldwin, New York, will have ...Continue Reading

Oct. 23, 2023 * * *MEDIA ADVISORY: M23-129* * * *NASA Sets Coverage for Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station*** * * (April 18, 2022) — Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev waves to the camera while working outside the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module during a spacewalk that lasted for six hours and 37 minutes to outfit Nauka and configure the European robotic arm on the International Space Station’s Russian segment. NASA will provide live coverage as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside th ...Continue Reading

Oct. 20, 2023 *MEDIA ADVISORY: M23-132* * * *Join NASA to Discuss High-Rate Laser Comms Demo, Space Station Science ***** NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 26, to discuss a laser communications system and new research to understand the interactions between weather on Earth and in space. The investigations are two of many research and technology experiments bound for the International Space Station next month aboard the agency’s SpaceX 29th commercial resupp ...Continue Reading

Oct. 19, 2023 *MEDIA ADVISORY: M23-130* * * *Watch Live as NASA Astronauts Conduct Spacewalk, Upgrade Space Station ***** * * Two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct a spacewalk Monday, Oct. 30, to complete maintenance activities at the orbital complex. Live coverage of the spacewalk begins at 6:30 a.m. EDT on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin about 8:05 a.m., and last about six-and-a-half ...Continue Reading

Oct. 18, 2023/ /*RELEASE: 23-117*/ /*NASA Employees Win Top Federal Award for Asteroid Deflection Mission */ /NASA’s Brian Key and Scott Bellamy accepted the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal on behalf of a mission team for the first planetary defense test during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington on Oct. 17. / /The awards program for career federal employees, known as the Sammies, aims to highlight key accomplishments that benefit the nation, seeks ...Continue Reading

Oct. 13, 2023   *RELEASE: 23-114*   *NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft, Optical Comms Demo En Route to Asteroid*** * * A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Complex 39A, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will travel to a metal-rich asteroid by the same name orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter to study it’s composition. The spac ...Continue Reading

Oct. 12, 2023   *RELEASE: 23-115* Dozens of Student Teams Worldwide to Compete in NASA Rover Challenge Students from Alabama A&M University near Huntsville, Alabama, pilot their vehicle through the obstacle course at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center during NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge event on April 22, 2023. Credits: NASA NASA has selected 72 student teams to begin an engineering design challenge to build human-powered rovers that will compete next April at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in ...Continue Reading

Oct. 11, 2023 *RELEASE: 23-115* * * *NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Sample Contains Water, Carbon* * * A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector. Sample material from asteroid Bennu can be seen on the middle right. Scientists have found evidence of both carbon and water in initial analysis of this material. The bulk of the sample is located inside. Photo: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold * * Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected ...Continue Reading

Oct. 6, 2023   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M23-128* * * *NASA Highlights Media Opportunities for Upcoming Ring of Fire Eclipse * * * An annular “ring of fire” solar eclipse on May 20, 2012 NASA/Bill Dunford * * On Saturday, Oct. 14, the Moon will pass between Earth and the Sun, giving people across the United States an opportunity to see an annular solar eclipse. NASA will host live coverage of the eclipse starting at 11:30 a.m. EDT. Media have an opportunity to interview NASA experts live prior to the ecli ...Continue Reading

Oct. 4, 2023   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M23-123* * * *NASA Sets Coverage for Psyche Spacecraft Launch to Metal World*   NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for its Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid. Launch is targeted for 10:16 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.   Live launch coverage without commentary will begin at 9:15 a.m. EDT on the NASA Television media channel. Th ...Continue Reading