*NASA Grants Support Academic Collaborations for STEM Student Success* * * April 30, 2024 *RELEASE: 24-061* * * **** Credit: NASA * * *NASA Grants Support Academic Collaborations for STEM Student Success*   NASA has awarded $3.9 million to 13 teams at under-resourced academic institutions across the country, to support collaborative projects with NASA that offer students mentorship and career development in science, technology, engineering, and math.   This is the second round of seed funding ...Continue Reading

NASA Sets Coverage for Boeing Starliner’s First Crewed Launch, Docking *APR 29, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-061* Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft approaches the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will launch aboard Starliner on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. Credits: NASA NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s Boeing Cre ...Continue Reading

*NASA Sets Coverage for Dragon Spacecraft Relocation on Space Station* ** April 29, 2024 MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-059 *** *The SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft pictured from the International Space Station. Credits: NASA.**   In preparation for the arrival of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, four crew members aboard the International Space Station will relocate the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft to a different docking port Thursday, May 2, to make way for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. NASA will provide live coverag ...Continue Reading

April 29, 2024 * * *RELEASE: 24-061* * * *NASA Administrator Names New Stennis Space Center Director* John Bailey, director, John C. Stennis Space Center   NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday named John Bailey as director of the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, effective immediately. Bailey had been serving as acting director role since January.    “John will build on his nearly 35 years of federal service to lead our talented workforce at Stennis,” said ...Continue Reading

April 26, 2024 * * *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-060* * * *NASA to Provide Coverage as Dragon Departs Station with Science* * * The SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship is pictured approaching the International Space Station carrying over 7,300 pounds of new science, supplies and solar arrays to replenish the Expedition 65 crew. The Cargo Dragon’s nose cone is open revealing its hatch and forward docking cone. * * NASA and its international partners are set to receive scientific research samples and hardware ...Continue Reading

*NASA Finds New Homes for Artemis Generation of ‘Moon Trees’ Across US* * * April 25, 2024   *RELEASE: 24-060* * * **** Photo of a Loblolly Pine Artemis I Moon Tree during a tree dedication ceremony at the North Carolina Governor’s mansion on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Credits: NASA/OLIA * * After careful review of hundreds of applications, NASA has selected organizations from across the country to receive ‘Moon Treeâ ...Continue Reading

NASA Announces 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners *APR 22, 2024* *RELEASE 24-055* Students from Universidad Católica Boliviana prepare to traverse the course at the 2024 Human Exploration Rover Challenge at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Credits: NASA/Taylor Goodwin NASA announced the winners of the 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) April 22, with Parish Episcopal School, from Dallas, winning first p ...Continue Reading

NASA Nurtures Promising Tech Ideas from Small Businesses *APR 22, 2024* *RELEASE 24-059* Credit: NASA New space technology ideas emerge every day from innovators across the country, and NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program on Monday selected more than 100 projects for funding. This program offers small businesses in the United States early-stage funding and support to advance the agency’s goals of exploring the unknown in air and space while returning benefits to Earth. Specifically, NASA’s ...Continue Reading

April 19, 2024 * * *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-058* * * *NASA Sets Coverage of Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station* * * Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub from Roscosmos is pictured during a spacewalk to inspect a backup radiator, deploy a nanosatellite, and install communications hardware on the International Space Station’s Nauka science module.   NASA will provide live coverage, beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 25, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside the In ...Continue Reading

*Slovenia Signs Artemis Accords, Joins Pursuit of Safer Space* * * April 19, 2024 RELEASE: 24-058 * * **** Matevž Frangež, State Secretary, Ministry of Economy, Tourism, and Sport signs the Artemis Accords on behalf of Slovenia with NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, Ambassador Jamie L. Harpootlian, Rebecca Bresnik, Associate General Counsel for International and Space Law, and Slovenian Ambassador to the United States Iztok MiroÅ¡ič standing behind. Credit: Stat ...Continue Reading