NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-033 MARCH 17, 2025 CLPS NASA, Firefly Invite Media to Discuss End of Blue Ghost Moon Mission     This picture, captured from the surface of the Moon, shows Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, which performed operations on the Moon from March 2, to March 16, 2025, in the foreground, and Earth in the sky above it. Credit: Firefly Aerospace NASA and Firefly Aerospace will host a news conference at 2 p ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-035 MARCH 16, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-9 Return, Splashdown     The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission, including NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, pose for a photo aboard the International Space Station. Credit: NASA NASA will provide live coverage of the agency’s Space ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-024 MARCH 14, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launches to International Space Station   A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. Credit: NASA Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission launched at 7:03 p.m. EDT Fr ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-021 MARCH 12, 2025 SCIENCE NASA Launches Missions to Study Sun, Universe’s Beginning NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 11, 2025. Credit: SpaceX NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx, is on its way to study the origins ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-028 MARCH 11, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim to Discuss Upcoming Launch, Mission  Official portrait of NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, who will serve as a flight engineer during Expedition 73. Credit: NASA NASA will provide interview opportunities with astronaut Jonny Kim beginning at 9 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, March 18, to highlight his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in April.   The virtual interviews from Star City, Russia, will str ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-025 MARCH 7, 2025 SCIENCE NASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 captured an image March 6, 2025, after landing in a crater from the Moon’s South Pole. The lunar lander is on its side about 820 feet from the intended landing site, Mons Mouton. In the center of the image between the two lander legs is the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1 suite, which shows the drill deployed. Credit: Intuitive Machines Shortly aft ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-025 MARCH 7, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Invites Creators to Design Mascot for Artemis Moon Mission  Artemis II crew members, shown inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, stand in front of their Orion crew module on Aug. 8, 2023. From left are: Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; Victor Glover, pilot; Reid Wiseman, commander; and Christina Hammock Koch, mission specialist. Credit: NASA NASA is seeking design ide ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-032 MARCH 7, 2025 OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Oregon NASA astronaut Don Pettit inside the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft. Credit: NASA Students from Oregon will have the chance to connect with NASA astronaut Don Pettit as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions from aboard the International Space Station.   Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call at 2:15 p.m. EDT on Monday, M ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-029 MARCH 5, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Sets Coverage for Agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launch, Docking The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission pictured during an equipment test at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station.   Liftoff is targeted for 7:48 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, March 12, from Launch Compl ...Continue Reading

NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C25-006 MARCH 4, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Awards Launch Service for Mission to Study Storm Formation Credit: NASA NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission, which aims to understand why, when, and where tropical convective storms form, and why some storms produce extreme weather. The mission will launch on the company’s Alpha rocket from NASA’s Wallops Fl ...Continue Reading