NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-030 MARCH 4, 2025 SCIENCE NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Second Private Moon Landing Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission lunar lander, Athena, entering lunar orbit on Monday, March 3. Credit: Intuitive Machines Carrying NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations, Intuitive Machines is targeting their Moon landing no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6. The company’s Nova-C lunar lander is slated to land in Mons Mouton, a lunar plat ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-031 MARCH 3, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in Ohio, Texas NASA’s Space X Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait. Credit: NASA Students from Ohio and Texas will have the chance to hear NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer their prerecorded questions this week.   At 12:55 p.m. EST, Wednesday, March 5, NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Don Pettit will respond to quest ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-022 MARCH 2, 2025 SCIENCE Touchdown! Carrying NASA Science, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lands on Moon First image captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, taken shortly after confirmation of a successful landing at Mare Crisium on the Moon’s near side. This is the second lunar delivery of NASA science and tech instruments as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aer ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-019 FEB 27, 2025 Liftoff! NASA Tech, Science En Route to Moon with Intuitive Machines   Creating a golden streak in the night sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander (IM-2) and NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:16 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Feb. 26. The IM-2 launch, which is part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) ini ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-020 FEB 26, 2025 NASA Remembers Long-Time Civil Servant John Boyd   Portrait of John Boyd, whose contributions to NASA spanned more than 70 years. Credit: NASA John Boyd, known to many as Jack and whose career spanned more than seven decades in a multitude of roles across NASA as well as its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), died Feb. 20. He was 99. Born in 1925, and raised in Danville, Virginia, he was a long ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-027 FEB. 26, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 to Discuss Space Station Mission, Upcoming Return 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 Media are invited to hear from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts during a news conference beginning at 11:55 a.m. EST, Tu ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-026 FEB. 24, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 91 Launch, Space Station Docking The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress spacecraft pictured on Aug. 13, 2024, from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft delivering approximately three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station.   The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 91 spa ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-018 FEB 24, 2025 NASA Names Acting Associate Administrator, More Leadership Changes   NASA logo. Credit: NASA NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro announced Monday Vanessa Wyche will serve as the acting associate administrator for the agency at NASA Headquarters in Washington, effective immediately. Wyche, who had been the director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, is detailed as Petro’s senior advisor leading the agency’s center directors and mission directora ...Continue Reading

NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C25-005 FEB. 21, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Awards Planetary Defense Space Telescope Launch Services Contract Credit: NASA NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to Earth. The firm fixed price launch service task order is being awarded under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity NASA Launch Se ...Continue Reading

NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Next Commercial Moon Launch NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-025 FEB. 21, 2025 SCIENCE NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Next Commercial Moon Launch Caption: The Intuitive Machines lunar lander that will deliver NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign is encapsulated in the fairing of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: Spac ...Continue Reading