Kennedy Space Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Launch Services Office

NASA’s Roman Telescope to Carry 1.35 Million Names to Deep Space

On July 27, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installed a memory card containing 1,350,144 names as part of a commemorative plaque on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The names were submitted by people globally, including astronauts from Artemis II and Artemis III. The memory card will travel with the Roman observatory […]

Posted July 31, 2026

Astrophysics Division

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Science Mission Directorate

NASA to Host Media Briefing on Roman Telescope, Launching Next Month

Media are invited to join NASA for a virtual news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, July 29, to preview the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, scheduled to launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 30. NASA will stream this event live through a variety of platforms. Learn where […]

Posted July 21, 2026

Commercial Crew

International Space Station (ISS)

Missions

NASA Invites Media to Roman Space Telescope, Crew-13 Launches

Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the agency’s SpaceX Crew-13 missions, both targeting launch in the coming months. The Roman telescope is slated to launch no earlier than 7:20 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at […]

Posted July 17, 2026

Launch Services Program

Bringing Signals to NASA

Growing up on the central California coast, watching rocket launches with his father was part of Eric Fernandez’s childhood routine. Fernandez had posters of rockets on the wall, but despite being fascinated by them, he never imagined one day this would be his career. Because both of his grandparents had served at Vandenberg Air Force […]

Posted June 26, 2026

Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor - 2 (TSIS-2)

CubeSat Launch Initiative

CubeSats

Launch Services Office

Launch Services Program

Small Satellite Missions

Space Operations Mission Directorate

The Sun

NASA Selects Rocket Lab to Launch Sun, Earth Science Missions

NASA has selected Rocket Lab to provide the launch service for both the agency’s PolSIR (Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer) and Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 (TSIS-2) missions. The two selections are part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract.

Posted June 25, 2026

Roman Telescope Comes to Kennedy

In this June 21, 2026, photo, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrives at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard NASA’s Pegasus barge. After offloading and transportation to the spaceport’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, Roman will undergo processing ahead of launch, targeted no earlier than Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026.

Posted June 24, 2026

Launch Services Program

From Suriname to Space: Rohit Goeptar Shares His Journey to NASA

Rohit Goeptar was born into a poor family in Suriname, South America, the kind where both parents work three jobs and they still can only provide food and shelter for their family. At around age six, his family moved to California to start a new life. Only two years later, he moved back to South America […]

Posted June 18, 2026

Artemis

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

Missions

Moon Base

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

Sustainability at Kennedy Space Center

NASA Testing Wastewater Treatment Facility for Future Moon Base

A mobile wastewater treatment system built at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida that can help prepare for long-duration missions on the Moon and Mars departed the spaceport and arrived at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks.

Posted June 2, 2026