November 21, 2020 RELEASE 20-116*NASA, US and European Partners Launch Mission to Monitor Global Ocean* Sentinel-6_Michael_Freilich_liftoff_screenshot.png The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean observation satellite lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:17 a.m. PST (12:17 p.m. EST) Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. */Credits: NASA TV/* A joint U.S.-European satellite built to monitor global sea levels lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocke ...Continue Reading

November 17, 2020 CONTRACT RELEASE M020-16*NASA Awards Kennedy Facilities Engineering Support Services III Contract* NASA has selected Tesla Laboratories Inc. of Arlington, Virginia, to provide project management, project planning and validation, real property management, launch support, and systems maintenance engineering for assigned facilities, systems, equipment, and utilities. The NASA Kennedy Facilities Engineering Support Services III (KFESS III) blanket purchase agreement with firm fixed price task orde ...Continue Reading

November 05, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M020-15 *NASA Invites Media to View Orion as It Advances on the Path to the Pad for Artemis I* saj_fairing_install_main.jpg The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis I mission is in view inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay on Oct. 28. Attached below Orion are the crew module adapter and the European Service Module with spacecraft adapter jettison fairings installed. */Credits: NASA/Ben Smegelsky/* NASA invites media to capture images of the ag ...Continue Reading

October 05, 2020 RELEASE M020-14 *NASA Releases Latest CubeSat Launch Initiative Announcement of Opportunity* announcement2.jpg */Credits: NASA/* Accredited education institutions, nonprofit organizations and NASA Centers can join the adventure and challenges of space while helping the agency achieve its exploration goals through the next round of the NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI). Applicants must submit proposals by 4:30 p.m. EST, December 16, 2020.  Students conduct testing on the LightSail 1 ...Continue Reading

September 28, 2020 RELEASE M020-13*NASA’s Artemis Program Seeks Student Ideas for Innovative Technologies* sp-2020-08-776-ksc_nasa_minds_web_banner_graphic.png NASA MINDS is a hands-on, design-and-build collegiate learning experience. Participating teams will independently select a technology that is relevant to NASA's Artemis missions, allowing students to focus on technologies that interest and inspire them most. */Credits: NASA/* NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP)&nb ...Continue Reading

September 18, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-103*NASA Invites Media to Launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite from West Coast* Media accreditation is open for the launch of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, an international collaboration between NASA and several partners. This is the first of two identical satellites to be launched sequentially to continue observations of sea level change for at least the next decade. The spacecraft is targeted for liftoff Nov. 10 at 2:31 p.m. EST (11:31 a.m. PST) fro ...Continue Reading

September 17, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-100*NASA to Host Preview Briefings, Interviews for First Crew Rotation Mission with SpaceX * 50237582937_409d83e018_k.jpg The SpaceX Crew-1 official crew portrait with (from left) NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Soichi Noguchi. */Credits: NASA/* NASA will highlight the first crew rotational flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station with a ...Continue Reading

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 $15.2 million. The performan ...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 supersized sandbox filled w ...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 expedition planned for a launch in 2021 to the orb ...Continue Reading