NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C25-018 AUG. 11, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Awards Second Human Health, Performance Contract   Credit: NASA NASA has selected KBR Wyle Services, LLC of Fulton, Maryland, to provide services to the Human Health and Performance Directorate at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, which focuses on astronaut health, occupational health, and research that could help mitigate health risks for future human spaceflight ...Continue Reading

NASA Continues Search for Moon-Focused Sustainability Solutions NASA News   RELEASE 25-053 AUG. 11, 2025 TECHNOLOGY NASA Continues Search for Moon-Focused Sustainability Solutions   An artist’s concept of the Moon (right) and Mars (center) against the starry expanse of space. A sliver of the Earth’s horizon can be seen in the foreground. Credit: NASA NASA is accepting U.S. submissions for the second phase ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-055 AUG. 9, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Returns, Splashes Down Off California   The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber ...Continue Reading

NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C25-017 AUG. 8, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Selects Contractors to Supply Centers with Helium   Credit: NASA NASA has chosen a group of contractors to supply multiple agency facilities with liquid and gaseous helium for at least the next two years.   The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid and Gaseous Helium contract is a fixed-price indefinite-delivery requirements contract with firm-fixed-price delivery orders. The ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-056 AUG. 8, 2025 Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell   Portrait of NASA astronaut Jim Lovell. Credit: NASA The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97 years old.   “NASA sends its condolences to the family of Capt. Jim Lovell, whose li ...Continue Reading

NASA Invites Media to View Heliophysics, NOAA Space Weather Missions NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-078 AUG. 8, 2025 SCIENCE NASA Invites Media to View Heliophysics, NOAA Space Weather Missions   Technicians at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida conduct illumination testing on Friday, July 18, 2025, by flashing a bright light that simulates the Sun into the two-panel solar array that ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-077 AUG. 6, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-10 Return, Splashdown   From left, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi share a light moment during a group portrait inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module. Credit: NASA NASA and ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-054 AUG. 5, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Selects Six Companies to Provide Orbital Transfer Vehicle Studies    Credit: NASA NASA has selected six companies to produce studies focused on lower-cost ways to launch and deliver spacecraft of various sizes and forms to multiple, difficult-to-reach orbits. The firm-fixed-price awards comprise nine studies with a maximum total value of approximately $1.4 million. The awardees are: ...Continue Reading

NASA News   ADVISORY M25-076 AUG. 4, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Opens Simulated Mars Habitat to Media Ahead of Second Mission   The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) team hosts a media day at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2023. Credit: NASA As NASA prepares for its second year-long Mars simulated mission, media are invited to visit the ground-based habitat where the mission will take place, on Friday, Aug. 22, at the agency’s Johnson Space Ce ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-052 AUG. 1, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Launches to International Space Station   A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov onboard, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, from NASA's Kennedy Space ...Continue Reading