Artemis

Guiding Orion: Jorge Chong’s Mission to Advance Deep Space Exploration

Jorge Chong is helping shape the future of human spaceflight, one calculation at a time. As a project manager for TRON (Tracking and Ranging via Optical Navigation) and a guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) test engineer in the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, he is leading efforts to ensure the Orion spacecraft can navigate deep […]

Posted February 20, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Earth's Moon

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Sets Coverage of Firefly’s First Robotic Commercial Moon Landing

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. Blue Ghost is slated to touch down near Mare Crisium, a plain in the northeast quadrant on the near side of […]

Posted February 14, 2025

Space Launch System (SLS)

Artemis

Artemis 4

Humans in Space

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Readies Moon Rocket for the Future with Manufacturing Innovation

NASA’s Artemis campaign will send astronauts, payloads, and science experiments into deep space on NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) super heavy-lift Moon rocket. Starting with Artemis IV, the Orion spacecraft and its astronauts will be joined by other payloads atop an upgraded version of the SLS, called Block 1B.

Posted February 13, 2025

Artemis

Artemis 4

Earth's Moon

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

Gateway Program

Gateway Space Station

Humans in Space

Johnson Space Center

Lunar Space Station Module Will Journey to US ahead of NASA’s Artemis IV Moon Mission

A key element of the Gateway lunar space station has entered the cleanroom for final installations after completing environmental stress tests.

Posted February 13, 2025

Johnson Space Center

Artemis

General

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

Driving the Future: NASA Highlights Artemis at Houston AutoBoative Show

You would not expect to see NASA at a car show—but that’s exactly where Johnson Space Center employees were from Jan. 29 to Feb. 2, 2025, driving the future of space exploration forward. At the Houston AutoBoative Show, a fusion of the auto and boat show, NASA rolled out its Artemis exhibit at NRG Center […]

Posted February 11, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Artemis

Communicating and Navigating with Missions

Space Communications & Navigation Program

Space Communications Technology

More Than 400 Lives Saved with NASA’s Search and Rescue Tech in 2024

Did you know that the same search and rescue technologies developed by NASA for astronaut missions to space help locate and rescue people across the United States and around the world? NASA’s collaboration with the international satellite-aided search and rescue effort known as Cospas-Sarsat has enabled the development of multiple emergency locati

Posted February 6, 2025

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Artemis

Flight Opportunities Program

Game Changing Development Program

Glenn Research Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Tests in Simulated Lunar Gravity to Prep Payloads for Moon

The old saying — “Practice makes perfect!” — applies to the Moon too. On Tuesday, NASA gave 17 technologies, instruments, and experiments the chance to practice being on the Moon… without actually going there. Instead, it was a flight test aboard a vehicle adapted to simulate lunar gravity for approximately two minutes. The test began […]

Posted February 4, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Kennedy Space Center

Missions

Science Mission Directorate

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

NASA to Talk Science, Tech Aboard Next Intuitive Machines Moon Flight

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 7, to discuss the agency’s science and technology flying aboard Intuitive Machines’ second flight to the Moon.

Posted January 31, 2025

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

Artemis

Artemis 2

Orion Program

How to Fly NASA’s Orion Spacecraft

On NASA’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency’s Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the controls of the Orion spacecraft and periodically fly it manually during the flight around the Moon and back.

Posted January 28, 2025

Michoud Assembly Facility

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

NASA Invites Media to Pre-Super Bowl Tours at New Orleans Facility

Media are invited to visit NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans between Tuesday, Feb. 4, and Thursday, Feb. 6, ahead of Super Bowl LIX for an inside look at America’s rocket factory, as well as interview agency experts.

Posted January 27, 2025