May 21, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-085*NASA Invites Media to View New Mission to Study the Frontier of Space* An artist concept of NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer. The spacecraft will observe colorful swaths of light called airglow to track how Earth’s weather and space weather interact. */Credits: NASA/* Media will have the opportunity June 4-5 for tours, interviews and photographs of NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) as it prepares t ...Continue Reading

  May 17, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-082*NASA Invites Media to Upcoming Launch of Science to Space Station* A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on April 2, 2018 at 4:30 p.m. EDT, carrying the 14th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA/* Media accreditation now is open for the launch of the next SpaceX delivery of NASA science investigations, supplies and equipment to the Inter ...Continue Reading

  May 10, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY 009-18*NASA Hosts Media Day for 2018 Robotic Mining Competition, Women in STEM Networking Forum at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex* College team members cart their remote-controlled robot miner from the robot mining arena after a competition run during NASA's 6th Annual Robotic Mining Competition, May 20, 2015, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. */Credits: Amber Watson/* News media are invited on Thursday, May 17, from 10 a.m. to noon EDT, to c ...Continue Reading

  May 05, 2018 RELEASE 18-033*NASA, ULA Launch Mission to Study How Mars Was Made* NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission is the first interplanetary launch from the West Coast of the U.S. After its six-month journey, InSight will descend to Mars to study the heart of the Red Planet. */Credits: NASA/* NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) missi ...Continue Reading

  April 27, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY 008-18*InSight Briefings and Events* An artist's rendering of a rocket launching with the InSight spacecraft later this May. */Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech /* NASA’s next mission to Mars - the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport spacecraft (InSight) - is scheduled to launch as early as Saturday, May 5, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. InSight’s liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas ...Continue Reading

  April 19, 2018 RELEASE 18-026*NASA Planet Hunter on Its Way to Orbit* NASA’s next planet-hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 on April 18, 2018. TESS will search for new worlds outside our solar system for further study. */Credits: NASA Television/* NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched on the first-of-its-kind mission to find worlds beyond our solar system, including some that could s ...Continue Reading

  April 11, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-059*NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Planet-Hunting Mission* NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida no earlier than April 16, 2018. Once in orbit, TESS will spend about two years surveying 200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun to search for planets outside our solar system. */Credits: NASA/* On a missio ...Continue Reading

  April 13, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY 007-18*Kennedy Space Center Traffic and Road Closures for April 14-16* Kennedy Space Center Traffic and Road Closures for April 14-16 Heavy traffic on and around the Kennedy Space Center and the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is expected April 14-16 due to center activities surrounding the upcoming launch of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air For ...Continue Reading

  April 11, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-059*NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Planet-Hunting Mission* NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida no earlier than April 16, 2018. Once in orbit, TESS will spend about two years surveying 200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun to search for planets outside our solar system. */Credits: NASA/* On a missio ...Continue Reading

  April 02, 2018 RELEASE 18-023*New Research Heading to Space Station Aboard 14th SpaceX Resupply Mission* A SpaceX Dragon launched at 4:30 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida delivering more than 5,800 pounds of equipment and research to the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA/* Astronauts aboard the International Space Station soon will receive a delivery of experiments dealing with how the human body, plants and materials behave ...Continue Reading