April 13, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY 007-18*Kennedy Space Center Traffic and Road Closures for April 14-16* Kennedy Space Center Traffic and Road Closures for April 14-16 Heavy traffic on and around the Kennedy Space Center and the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is expected April 14-16 due to center activities surrounding the upcoming launch of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air For ...Continue Reading

  April 11, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-059*NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Planet-Hunting Mission* NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida no earlier than April 16, 2018. Once in orbit, TESS will spend about two years surveying 200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun to search for planets outside our solar system. */Credits: NASA/* On a missio ...Continue Reading

  April 02, 2018 RELEASE 18-023*New Research Heading to Space Station Aboard 14th SpaceX Resupply Mission* A SpaceX Dragon launched at 4:30 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida delivering more than 5,800 pounds of equipment and research to the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA/* Astronauts aboard the International Space Station soon will receive a delivery of experiments dealing with how the human body, plants and materials behave ...Continue Reading

  March 30, 2018 RELEASE 006-18*NASA Kennedy Announces Recipients of 2018 Chroniclers Awards* Broadcasters, journalists, authors, contractor public relations representatives and NASA public affairs officers are honored on the Chroniclers wall of fame in the newsroom at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. */Credits: NASA/* NASA will honor three veteran space chroniclers who have excelled at sharing U.S. space exploration news from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Brass strips ...Continue Reading

  March 26, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-053*NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Space Station Resupply Mission* NASA Television will cover the 14th resupply mission of commercial cargo provider SpaceX to the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA/* NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX now is targeting its 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station for no earlier than 4:30 p.m. EDT Monday, April 2. Live coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency’s&Acir ...Continue Reading

  March 23, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-052*NASA Invites Media to View Launch of InSight Mars Lander from West Coast* The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport spacecraft (InSight) will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. */Credits: NASA/* Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA’s next mission to Mars - the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport spacecraft (InSight) from Vandenbe ...Continue Reading

  March 19, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-046*Media Invited to View NASA's Mission to Study Mars Interior* NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander will be the first mission to look deep beneath the Martian surface and study the planet's interior by measuring its heat output and listening for marsquakes. */Credits: NASA/* Media are invited to view NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and He ...Continue Reading

  March 12, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY 005-18*NASA Kennedy Seeks Media Nominations for 2018 ‘Chroniclers’* 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 /* NASA is soliciting members of the working news media for names of former colleagues they deem worthy of designation as a space program “Chronicler” at the agen ...Continue Reading

  March 06, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-041*Media Invited to Upcoming Launch of NASA’s Newest Planet-Hunting Spacecraft* NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is targeted to launch no earlier than April 16, 2018, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will find planets outside the solar system that periodically block part of the light from their host stars as they pass by, or transit. */Credits: Goddard Space Flight Ce ...Continue Reading

  March 02, 2018 RELEASE 18-012*NASA, ULA Launch Advanced NOAA Weather Satellite*  A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. Liftoff was at 5:02 p.m. EST. GOES-S is the second satellite in a series of next-generation weather satellites. */Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett /* NASA successfully launched the second in a series of nex ...Continue Reading