NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Crewmates Return *Sep 19, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-130* The Roscosmos Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft is pictured docked to the International Space Station’s Prichal module in this long-duration photograph as it orbited 258 miles above Nigeria. Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko, will depart from the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, and return to Earth. Dyson, Chub, an ...Continue Reading

Sept. 19, 2024   *RELEASE: 24-116* * * *NASA Grants to Strengthen Diversity in Engineering, STEM Fields* * * Students participating in NASA’s Minority University Research AND Education Project (MUREP) Innovation and Tech Transfer Idea Competition on-site experience. Credit: Josh Valcarcel * * NASA is awarding $7.2 million to six minority-serving institutions to grow initiatives in engineering-related disciplines and fields for learners who have historically been underrepresented and underserved in ...Continue Reading

NASA Shares Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Remarks *Sep 18, 2024* *RELEASE 24-119* On Sept. 18, 2024, five Congressional Gold Medals were awarded to women who contributed to the space race, including the NASA mathematicians who helped land the first astronauts on the Moon under the agency’s Apollo Program. Credit: NASA NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released his remarks as prepared for Wednesday’s Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Washington. The awards recognized the women who ...Continue Reading

*NASA, US Department of Education to Launch STEM Project in Washington* *Sep 18, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-129* Students are recognized for their hard work in STEM-related extended-day programs at their school through a partnership with NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Credit: NASA Media are invited to the kickoff event of a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Department of Education at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, at the Wheatley Education Campus in Washington. The interagency project,  ...Continue Reading

NASA Selects Lunar Relay Contractor for Near Space Network Services *Sep 17, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-032* Credit: NASA NASA has awarded a contract to Intuitive Machines, LLC of Houston, to support the agency’s lunar relay systems as part of the Near Space Network, operated by the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. This Subcategory 2.2 GEO to Cislunar Relay Services is a new firm-fixed-price, multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity task order contract. The contract ...Continue Reading

*NASA Selects Lockheed Martin to Develop Lightning Mapper for NOAA* *Sep 17, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-034* Credit: NASA NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to develop a lightning mapping instrument as part of NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $297.1 million. It includes the development of two flight instruments as we ...Continue Reading

Sept. 17, 2024 *RELEASE: 24-118* *NASA’s Spanish-language Podcast Returns for New Season * * * Podcast art for Universo curioso de la NASA, the agency’s first podcast in Spanish, which returns for a second season in September 2024. Credits: NASA / Krystofer Kim /Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí./ In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, NASA is releasing new content for Universo curioso de la NASA/, /the agency’s f ...Continue Reading

NASA Ames Selects Aeronautics and Exploration Support Contractor Credit: NASA NASA has awarded the NASA Academic Mission Services 2 (NAMS-2) contract to Crown Consulting Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, to provide the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, aeronautics and exploration technology research and development support. NAMS-2 is a single award hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $121 million. The contract begins ...Continue Reading

*NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awards*** *Sep 13, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-127* The Sun rises above the Flight Research Building at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Credit: NASA NASA‘s Watts on the Moon Challenge, designed to advance the nation’s lunar exploration goals under the Artemis campaign by challenging United States innovators to develop breakthrough power transmission and energy storage t ...Continue Reading

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Crewmates Arrive at Space Station The Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 72 crew members: NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner, onboard, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its number of ...Continue Reading