NASA to Cover Two Spacewalks, Hold Preview News Conference *Jan 07, 2025* *MEDIA ADVISORY M25-004* NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet conduct a spacewalk to complete work on the International Space Station on June 25, 2021. Credit: NASA Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station, conducting U.S. spacewalk 91 on Thursday, Jan. 16, and U.S. spacewalk 92 on Thursday, Jan. 23, to complete station upgrades. NASA also will discuss the pai ...Continue Reading

NASA to Host Media Call Highlighting Mars Sample Return Update *Jan 03, 2025* *MEDIA ADVISORY M25-003* Credit: NASA NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Jan. 7, to provide an update on the status of the agency’s Mars Sample Return Program. The briefing will include NASA’s efforts to complete its goals of returning scientifically selected samples from Mars to Earth while lowering cost, risk, and mi ...Continue Reading

Jan. 3, 2025   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M25-002* * * *Idaho Students to Connect with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station* * * NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit points a camera outside a window on the International Space Station’s Poisk module for a sun photography session. (Credit: NASA) * * Students from Hawthorne Elementary School in Boise, Idaho, will have the chance to hear NASA astronaut Don Pettit answer their prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) r ...Continue Reading

Jan. 3, 2025 * * *MEDIA ADVISORY: M25-001* * * *NASA, NOAA to Announce 2024 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions* * * This map depicts global temperature anomalies for meteorological summer in 2024 (June, July, and August). It shows how much warmer or cooler different regions of Earth were compared to the baseline average from 1951 to 1980. (Credit: NASA/NOAA)   Climate researchers from NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) will release their annual assessments of glo ...Continue Reading

*UPDATE: Earth to Space Call: NASA Leaders to Speak with Station Astronauts* *JAN 2, 2025* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-157* NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, react as they are recognized by employees during a NASA agencywide all hands on Dec. 6, 2024, at the NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson Building in Washington. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will speak with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, Suni ...Continue Reading

Earth to Space Call: NASA Leaders to Speak with Station Astronauts *Dec 30, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-157* NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, react as they are recognized by employees during a NASA agencywide all hands on Dec. 6, 2024, at the NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson Building in Washington. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will speak with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams ...Continue Reading

Dec. 29, 2024   *RELEASE: 24-154*   *NASA Administrator Pays Tribute to President Carter* * * President Carter, wife Rosalynn and daughter Amy are shown a scale model of the crawler that transported the total shuttle launch configuration to Pad 39 from the Vehicle Assembly Building by NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Director Lee Scherer in 1978. NASA * *   The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Sunday’s passing of President Jimmy Carter:   “President Carter& ...Continue Reading

Dec. 20, 2024 * * *CONTRACT RELEASE: C24-047* * * *NASA Selects Four Commercial Companies to Support Near Space Network* * * * * NASA has selected multiple companies to expand the agency’s Near Space Network’s commercial direct-to-Earth capabilities services, which is a mission-critical communication capability that allows spacecraft to transmit data directly to ground stations on Earth.   The work will be awarded under new Near Space Network services contracts that are firm-fixed-price, inde ...Continue Reading

NASA Welcomes Liechtenstein as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory From left to right, Ambassador of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United States of America Georg Sparber, Director of the Office for Communications of the Principality of Liechtenstein Dr. Rainer Schnepfleitner, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation and to the Principality of Liechtenstein Scott Miller, pose for a group photo during an Artemis Accords signing ceremony, ...Continue Reading

More NASA Science, Tech will Fly to Moon Aboard Future Firefly Flight *Dec 18, 2024* *RELEASE 24-152* A rendering of Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander and a rover developed for the company’s third mission to the Moon as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. Credit: Firefly Aerospace NASA continues to advance its campaign to explore more of the Moon than ever before, awarding Firefly Aerospace $179 million to deliver six experiments to the lunar surface. This fourth task order for Firef ...Continue Reading