Oct. 26, 2023 * * *RELEASE: 23-119* * * *Commander Callie Continues Moon Mission in NASA�??s New Graphic Novel* * * �??Astronaut Callie Rodriguez continues her space adventures as the first woman to walk on the Moon in NASA�??s new graphic novel, �??First Woman: Expanding Our Universe.�?�   Fictional astronaut Callie Rodriguez continues exploring space as the first woman to walk on the Moon in a new issue of NASA�??s First Woman graphic novel series. Now available digitally in English and S ...Continue Reading

Oct. 23, 2023 *CONTRACT RELEASE: C23-029* NASA Awards NOAA�??s QuickSounder Spacecraft Contract NASA * * * * NASA, on behalf of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), has awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV (Rapid-IV) contract to Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio for the QuickSounder spacecraft. The firm-fixed-price delivery order covers all phases of QuickSounder�??s operations to include spacecraft development, integration of NOAA�??s Advanced Te ...Continue Reading

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 resupply services miss ...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 hours. NASA astr ...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 to build trust i ...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 spacecraft also carries the agency�??s Deep Space Optical Communicat ...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 in space and bro ...Continue Reading