With a suite of NASA science and technology on board, Firefly Aerospace is targeting no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, to land the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon. NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-021 FEB 14, 2025 ARTEMIS NASA Sets Coverage of Firefly’s First Robotic Commercial Moon Landing Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captured a bright image of the Moon’s South Pole (on the far left) through the cameras on its top deck, while it travels to the Moon as part of NA ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 25-016 FEB. 12, 2025 TECHNOLOGY NASA’s Advancements in Space Continue Generating Products on Earth   The cover of Spinoff 2025, NASA’s annual publication that chronicles commercial products born from space technology, is a detailed view of the lunar surface captured by cameras on the Orion spacecraft on a close approach of the Moon during the Artemis I mission. Credit: NASA The latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff publication, which highlights the successful transfer of a ...Continue Reading

NASA Invites Media to Artemis II Moon Mission Activities at Kennedy NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-020 FEB. 11, 2025 MISSIONS NASA Invites Media to Artemis II Moon Mission Activities at Kennedy A massive crane lifts NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moves it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-018 FEB 11, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA, SpaceX Invite Media to Watch Crew-10 Launch to Space Station NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members (from left to right) Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi pictured training at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA’s 10th rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 r ...Continue Reading

Connecticut Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-019 FEB. 11, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE Connecticut Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague are at the controls of the robotics workstation. Credit: NASA Students from Rocky Hill, Connecticut, will have the chance to connect with NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Don Pettit as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, ...Continue Reading

NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C25-003 FEB. 10, 2025 THE UNIVERSE NASA Awards Launch Service Task Order for Pandora Mission Credit: NASA NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Pandora mission, which will study at least 20 known exoplanets and their host stars to find out how changes in stars affect our observations of exoplanet atmospheres.   The selection is part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch se ...Continue Reading

NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Releases 2024 Annual Report NASA News   RELEASE: 25-015 FEB. 6, 2025 AEROSPACE SAFETY ADVISORY PANEL NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Releases 2024 Annual Report Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel report cover. (Credit: NASA) The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, issued its 2024 annual report Thursday examining the agency’s safety performance, accomplishme ...Continue Reading

NASA News   MEDIA ADVISORY M25-015 FEB. 5, 2025 HUMANS IN SPACE NASA Brings Space to New Jersey Classroom with Astronaut Q&A (Jan. 13, 2025) Astronaut Nick Hague swaps samples of materials to observe how they burn in weightlessness. Credit: NASA Students from the Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School in Somerset, New Jersey, will have the chance to connect with NASA astronaut Nick Hague as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related questions from aboa ...Continue Reading

NASA Goes Live: First Twitch Stream from Space Station NASA News   ADVISORY M25-017 FEB. 5, 2025 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION NASA Goes Live: First Twitch Stream from Space Station NASA astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA) For the first time, NASA is hosting a live Twitch event from about 250 miles off the Earth aboard the International Space Station, bringing new audiences closer to space than ever before. Viewers will have the opportunit ...Continue Reading

NASA Presses Forward Search for VIPER Moon Rover Partner NASA News   RELEASE 25-014 FEB. 3, 2025 SCIENCE NASA Presses Forward Search for VIPER Moon Rover Partner NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) sits outside a testing chamber after completing its thermal vacuum testing in the fall of 2024. Credit: NASA/JSC David DeHoyos To advance plans of securing a public/private partnership and land and operate NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Expl ...Continue Reading