April 11, 2019 RELEASE C19-009*NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Asteroid Redirect Test Mission* NASA has selected SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by colliding a spacecraft with it at high speed – a technique known as a kinetic impactor. The total cost for NASA to launch DART is approximately $69 mil ...Continue Reading

  April 03, 2019 RELEASE M019-04*Four Honored and Added to The Chroniclers at Kennedy Space Center* Brass plaques engraved with the names of "The Chroniclers" create a roll of honor on the wall at the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. */Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett/* Four career media members are being recognized by the Kennedy Space Center and their media industry peers by being added to “The Chroniclers,” a list of retired journalists, bro ...Continue Reading

  April 01, 2019 MEDIA ADVISORY M019-03*Kennedy Space Center Traffic and Road Closures for Launch Activities* */Credits: NASA image/* Heavy traffic on and around the Kennedy Space Center and the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is expected April 7 due to center activities surrounding the upcoming launch of SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is planned to take place between 6:36 p.m. and 8:35 p.m EDT. _PUBLIC ACCESS ROAD C ...Continue Reading

  March 15, 2019 MEDIA ADVISORY M19-018*NASA Invites Media to 17th SpaceX Cargo Launch to Space Station*  The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 1:16 p.m. EST, Dec. 5, 2018. */Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett/* Media accreditation now is open for the next SpaceX delivery of supplies, equipment and science inv ...Continue Reading

  March 12, 2019 MEDIA ADVISORY M019-02*NASA Kennedy Space Center Seeks Media Nominations for 2019 “Chroniclers”* Craig Covault, left, and George Diller were honored as “Chroniclers” during an event at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center on Friday, May 4, 2018. The longtime friends combined for more than 80 years of U.S. space exploration news reporting. “Chroniclers” recognizes retirees of the news and communications ...Continue Reading

  March 08, 2019 RELEASE 19-016*SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashdown Marks Success of First NASA Commercial Crew Flight Test* Completing an end-to-end uncrewed flight test, Demo-1, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon departed the International Space Station at 2:32 a.m. EST Friday, March 8, 2019, and splashed down at 8:45 a.m. in the Atlantic Ocean about 200 nautical miles off the Florida coast. */Credits: NASA Television/* NASA passed a major milestone Friday in its goal to restore America’s h ...Continue Reading

  March 05, 2019 MEDIA ADVISORY M19-011*March 11 Events Highlight NASA’s Moon to Mars Plans, FY 2020 Budget* *//* NASA invites media and social media to agency centers across the country Monday, March 11, to get an up-close look at America’s work to return astronauts to the Moon and on to Mars, following the delivery of President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal to the U.S. Congress. The main event will take place at NASA’s Kennedy Space C ...Continue Reading

  March 02, 2019 RELEASE 19-014*NASA, SpaceX Launch First Flight Test of Space System Designed for Crew* Crowd gathers to watch as NASA and SpaceX make history by launching the first commercially-built and operated American crew spacecraft and rocket to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off at 2:49 a.m. EST Saturday on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. */Credits: NASA/* For the first time in his ...Continue Reading

  February 20, 2019 MEDIA ADVISORY M019-01*NASA, SpaceX Demo-1 Briefings, Events and Broadcasts* This illustratration depicts SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 lifting off from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. */Credits: SpaceX /* NASA and commercial crew provider SpaceX are targeting 2:49 a.m. EST Saturday, March 2, for the launch of the Demo-1 uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station. The uncrewed test fli ...Continue Reading

  February 20, 2019 MEDIA ADVISORY M019-01*NASA, SpaceX Demo-1 Briefings, Events and Broadcasts* This artist concept depicts SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 lifting off from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Image Credit: SpaceX *//* NASA and commercial crew provider SpaceX are targeting 2:48 a.m. EST Saturday, March 2, for the launch of the Demo-1 uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station. The uncrewed test flights will be the fir ...Continue Reading