October 26, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-157*NASA Invites Media to View Orion Test Capsule and Recovery Hardware* NASA’s Recovery Team and the U.S. Navy test procedures and ground support equipment to improve recovery procedures and hardware ahead of Orion's next flight, Exploration Mission-1, when it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean. */Credits: NASA/* Media are invited to see a test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, as well as the hardware that will be used to recover th ...Continue Reading

  October 23, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-155 *Coming to America: Orion’s European Service Module Arrives for First Mission* Technicians work underneath the European Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft to complete final preparations before shipment to the United States. */Credits: ESA/A. Conigli /* NASA is inviting media to its Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9 a.m. EST Friday, Nov. 16, for an event marking the arrival from Bremen, Germany, of the Europe ...Continue Reading

  October 17, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY 016-18*ICON Launch Briefings and Events* Illustration of NASA's ICON mission in orbit */Credits: NASA/* NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON), which will study the frontier of space: the dynamic zone high in our atmosphere where terrestrial weather from below meets space weather above, is scheduled to launch on Friday, October 26. The 90-minute launch window will open at 4:00 a.m. EDT. The spacecraft will launch aboard a Northrop Grumman P ...Continue Reading

  October 03, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-144*NASA Administrator Highlights ‘Moon to Mars’ Events Across Agency Oct. 24* NASA invites media to visit one of the agency’s many locations across the United States on Wednesday, Oct. 24, to learn more about how NASA is preparing to return astronauts to the Moon, then on the Mars. During these events, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will speak at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at noon EDT, spotlighting N ...Continue Reading

  September 15, 2018 RELEASE 18-078 *NASA, ULA Launch Mission to Track Earth's Changing Ice* The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket with the NASA Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) onboard is seen shortly after the mobile service tower at SLC-2 was rolled back, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The ICESat-2 mission will measure the changing height of Earth's ice. */Credits: NASA/ Bill Ingalls /* NASA’s Ice, Cloud and ...Continue Reading

  September 04, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-015*ICESat-2 Launch Briefings and Events from California* An artist illustration of NASA's ICESat-2 satellite above Earth. Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center *//* NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, a mission to measure the changing height of Earth's ice, is scheduled to launch Saturday, Sept. 15, with a 40-minute window opening at 8:46 a.m. EDT (5:46 a.m. PDT). The spacecraft will lift off from Space L ...Continue Reading

  August 31, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-131*NASA Invites Media to View Spacecraft to Study the Frontier of Space* Illustration of NASA's ICON mission in orbit */Credits: NASA/* NASA is inviting media to view NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft Thursday, Oct. 4, ahead of its scheduled launch aboard a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket Saturday, Oct. 6, at 4 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida. ICON will study ...Continue Reading

  August 30, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY 014-18*Mobile Launcher Progresses to First Flight of NASA’s Deep Space Exploration System* A swing test of the Orion crew access arm, top right, begins on the mobile launcher at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Aug. 21, 2018. The crew access arm is located at about the 274-foot level on the mobile launcher tower. It will rotate from its retracted position and interface with the Orion crew hatch location to provide entry to the Orion crew modu ...Continue Reading

  August 12, 2018 RELEASE 18-072*NASA, ULA Launch Parker Solar Probe on Historic Journey to Touch Sun *  The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to u ...Continue Reading

  August 07, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-112*NASA Invites Media to View Launch of ICESat-2 from West Coast* The ICESat-2 mission will measure the changing height of Earth's glaciers, ice sheets and sea ice, one laser pulse at a time, 10,000 laser pulses per second. */Credits: NASA/* Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 15, with a 40-minute window opening at 8:46 a.m. EDT ( ...Continue Reading