September 11, 2020 CONTRACT RELEASE M020-12*NASA Awards Kennedy Flight Operations Contract * NASA has selected Airbus Helicopters, Inc., of Grand Prairie, Texas, to provide comprehensive H-Care Infinite maintenance and flight operations services for three new Airbus H135 T3 aircraft and associated aerospace ground equipment at Kennedy Space Center.  The Kennedy Flight Operations Contract (KFLOC) is a firm-fixed price contract and has a maximum potential value of approximately ...Continue Reading

  September 04, 2020 RELEASE M020-11*NASA Calls on College Students to Aid in Lunar Excavation Ideas* ksc-20180517-ph_lch01_0051_large.jpg First-time participants from Saginaw Valley State University pause with their robot miner in the RobotPits on the fourth day of NASA's 9th Robotic Mining Competition, May 17, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. More than 40 student teams from colleges and universities around the U.S. are using their mining robots to dig in a super ...Continue Reading

  August 25, 2020 RELEASE 20-082 *NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Joins First Operational Boeing Crew Mission to Space Station*  NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps */Credits: NASA/* NASA has assigned astronaut Jeanette Epps to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission, the first operational crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station. Epps will join NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada for a six-month exped ...Continue Reading

August 03, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-090*NASA Astronauts to Discuss Historic SpaceX Crew Dragon Test Flight* NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, left, and Douglas Hurley are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. The Demo-2 test flight for NASA's Commercial Crew Program was the first to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station and return ...Continue Reading

  August 02, 2020 RELEASE 20-078*NASA Astronauts Safely Splash Down after First Commercial Crew Flight to Space Station *   SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida at 2:48 p.m. EDT Aug. 2, 2020, where the spacecraft is recovered by SpaceX and brought aboard the recovery ship 'Go Navigator.' */Credits: NASA Television/* Two NASA astronauts splashed down saf ...Continue Reading

  August 02, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-089*NASA Broadcasts First Splashdown of American Astronauts in 45 Years* NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley boarded the International Space Station shortly after arriving in the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on May 31, 2020. The two departed the station aboard the Crew Dragon Aug. 1 for a scheduled splashdown of 2:38 p.m. EDT Aug. 2 in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. */Credits: NASA/* NASA is broadcasting the retu ...Continue Reading

  July 30, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-088*NASA Astronauts in Space to Discuss Upcoming SpaceX Crew Dragon Return* NASA astronauts (from left) Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley and Chris Cassidy are the U.S. members of the Expedition 63 crew aboard the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA/* NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will address their upcoming SpaceX Crew Dragon departure and splashdown in a news conference at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, July 31, from the International Space ...Continue Reading

  July 30, 2020 RELEASE 20-077*NASA, ULA Launch Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission to Red Planet * A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, July 30, 2020, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Perseverance rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. */Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky/* NASA's Mars 2020 ...Continue Reading

  July 24, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-087*NASA to Provide Coverage of Astronauts’ Return from Space Station on SpaceX Commercial Crew Test Flight* The International Space Station's two newest crew members, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken, left, and Doug Hurley, are pictured having just entered the orbiting lab shortly after arriving aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. */Credits: NASA/* NASA will provide live coverage of activities leading up to, during, and following the return of ...Continue Reading

  July 22, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-081*NASA, SpaceX Invite Media to First Operational Commercial Crew Launch* Mission specialist Shannon Walker, left, pilot Victor Glover, Crew Dragon commander Michael Hopkins – all of NASA – and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission specialist Soichi Noguchi, right, will launch to the International Space Station on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ...Continue Reading