NASA Awards Intuitive Machines Lunar South Pole Research Delivery *Aug 29, 2024* *RELEASE 24-110* An artist’s concept of Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander on the Moon’s South Pole. Credit: Intuitive Machines A new set of NASA science experiments and technology demonstrations will arrive at the lunar South Pole in 2027 following the agency’s latest CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative delivery award. Intuitive Machines of Houston will receive $116.9 million to deliver six NASA payloads to a part ...Continue Reading

NASA Assigns Astronaut Jonny Kim to First Space Station Mission *Aug 28, 2024* *RELEASE 24-109* Official portrait of NASA astronaut Jonny Kim in an EMU suit. Credit: NASA During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the upcoming Expedition 72/73 crew. Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft in March 2025, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky. The trio will spend approximately eig ...Continue Reading

Aug. 28, 2024   *MEDIA ADVISORY: **M24-118*   *NASA, SpaceX Extend US Media Deadline for Crew-9 Launch to Station*** * * The SpaceX Dragon Endurance crew ship, carrying four Crew-5 members, approaches the International Space Station with the Earth’s horizon in the background. Credit: NASA/Kjell Lindgren   NASA is extending U.S. media accreditation for the launch of the agency’s ninth rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the Internationa ...Continue Reading

NASA, Blue Origin Invite Media to New Glenn Launch of Mars Mission *Aug 26, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-116* NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) identical dual spacecraft are inspected and processed on dollies in a high bay of the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Aug. 22. As the first multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to Mars, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations ...Continue Reading

NASA Invites Public Input on Low Earth Orbit Microgravity Strategy *Aug 26, 2024* *RELEASE 24-107* A waxing gibbous moon rises over the Indian Ocean as the International Space Station orbited 266 miles above. Credit: NASA As NASA and its partners continue to conduct groundbreaking research aboard the International Space Station, the agency announced Monday it is seeking U.S. industry, academia, international partners, and other stakeholders’ feedback on newly developed goals and objectives that will help guide the n ...Continue Reading

Aug. 24, 2024 * * *RELEASE: 24-108* * * *NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew* NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and leadership host a live news conference on Saturday, Aug. 24 at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to give a status update about NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. Credit: NASA NASA will return Boeing’s Starliner to Earth without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the spacecraft, the agency announced Saturday. The uncrew ...Continue Reading

NASA Selects Three New Venture-Class Launch Service Providers *Aug 22, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-030* Credit: NASA NASA has selected three additional companies to provide launch services for future agency missions through its VADR (Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare) contract. The companies awarded are: Arrow Science and Technology LLC of Webster, Texas Impulse Space Inc. of Redondo Beach, California Momentus Space LLC of San Jose, California The VADR contract is a firm-fixed-price, ...Continue Reading

Aug. 22, 2024 * * *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-115*   *Leadership to Discuss NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test* * * Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port. (Credit: NASA)   NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and leadership will hold an internal Agency Test Flight Readiness Review ...Continue Reading

*NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale*** *Aug 19, 2024* *RELEASE 24-106* * * Interstellar Lab, a small business comprised of team members from France, Texas, and Florida, took home the $750,000 grand prize for their food system, NUCLEUS, which uses a multi-pronged approach to growing and harvesting food outputs for astronauts on long-duration human space exploration missions. Credit: OSU/CFAES/Kenneth Chamberlain NASA has awarded a total of $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in the ...Continue Reading

Aug. 16, 2024   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-113* * * *Kansas Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Station* * * Expedition 71 Flight Engineers Matthew Dominick and Tracy C. Dyson, both NASA astronauts, pose for a fun portrait as Dominick tests portable breathing gear aboard the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module. (Credit: NASA) * * Students from Topeka, Kansas, will have the opportunity Wednesday, Aug. 21, to have NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Tracy C. Dyson answer thei ...Continue Reading