March 10, 2022 MEDIA ADVISORY M22-033*Coverage, Activities Set for First Rollout of NASA’s Mega Moon Rocket*  Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, work platforms are being retracted from around the Artemis I Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft in preparation to roll out for testing. */Credits: NASA/* NASA will hold a media teleconference on Monday, March 14 to discuss the upcoming debut of the agency’s Mega Moon rocket and integrated spacecraft for ...Continue Reading

February 22, 2022 *NASA Kennedy’s Control Center Named for Apollo-Era Launch Director* Launch Control Center Renaming Ceremony Kennedy Space Center Director Janet Petro speaks during a ceremony renaming the Florida spaceport’s launch control center to the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center on Feb. 22, 2022. Petrone was instrumental in America’s first voyages to the Moon and headed the Apollo program. He died in 2006 at the age of 80. */Credits: NASA/Glenn Benson/* By Jim Cawley NASA's Kennedy Space C ...Continue Reading

February 03, 2022 MEDIA ADVISORY M22-020*NASA, SpaceX to Provide Update on Crew-4 Space Station Mission* crew-4.jpg NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts participate in a training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left: NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 mission specialist Jessica Watkins, NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 pilot Robert Hines, NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 commander Kjell Lindgren, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Crew-4 mission specialist Samantha Cristoforett ...Continue Reading

January 18, 2022 MEDIA ADVISORY M22-010*NASA Invites Media to Launch of New Mega-Moon Rocket and Spacecraft* ksc-20190628-ph_fwm01_0106_large_1.jpg An aerial view of Launch Complex 39B with Exploration Ground Systems’ mobile launcher for the Artemis 1 mission on the pad. The mobile launcher, atop crawler-transporter 2, made its final solo trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building on June 27, 2019, and arrived on the surface of pad B on June 28, 2019, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. */Credits: NASA ...Continue Reading

January 18, 2022 MEDIA ADVISORY M22-010*La NASA invita a los medios al lanzamiento del nuevo mega-cohete y nave espacial lunares* ksc-20190628-ph_fwm01_0106_large_1.jpg An aerial view of Launch Complex 39B with Exploration Ground Systems’ mobile launcher for the Artemis 1 mission on the pad. The mobile launcher, atop crawler-transporter 2, made its final solo trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building on June 27, 2019, and arrived on the surface of pad B on June 28, 2019, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florid ...Continue Reading

January 18, 2022 MEDIA ADVISORY M22-010*NASA Invites Media to Launch of New Mega-Moon Rocket and Spacecraft* ksc-20190628-ph_fwm01_0106_large_1.jpg An aerial view of Launch Complex 39B with Exploration Ground Systems’ mobile launcher for the Artemis 1 mission on the pad. The mobile launcher, atop crawler-transporter 2, made its final solo trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building on June 27, 2019, and arrived on the surface of pad B on June 28, 2019, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mobile launche ...Continue Reading

January 12, 2022 MEDIA ADVISORY M022-01*Kennedy Space Center Will Continue Making History in 2022* Kennedy Space Center Director Janet Petro NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Director Janet Petro discusses the center’s 60 years of contributions to enabling science, exploration, and human spaceflight, as well as highlighting Kennedy’s coming growth in launch capacity and commercial space development. She addressed the industry, government, and academia attendees during the morning keynote address on Jan. 12, 2022, a ...Continue Reading

December 27, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-170*NASA Invites Media to NOAA’s Weather Observing Satellite Launch* goes-r_main_earth_reflection_panel_big.jpg An artist’s rendering of GOES-R. */Credits: NASA/* Media accreditation is now open for the upcoming launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-T satellite, the Western Hemisphere’s most advanced weather observing and environmental monitoring system. GOES-T is scheduled to launch March 1, 2022, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas ...Continue Reading

November 16, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-154*NASA TV to Air DART Prelaunch Activities, Launch* dart_header.jpg Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. */Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins, APL/Steve Gribben/* NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s first planetary defense test mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). The mission will help determine if intentionally cra ...Continue Reading

November 10, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-150*NASA to Provide Coverage of U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction* melroy_2007.jpg NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy in 2007, when she was serving as an astronaut and mission commander, floating into the Unity node of the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA/* NASA will provide live coverage of the 2021 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony at 11 a.m. EST on Saturday, Nov. 13. The agency's Deputy Administrator, Pam Melroy, is among the inductees, and t ...Continue Reading