Kennedy Space Center

Editor’s note: This release was updated on Nov. 1, to reflect a change in the docking time for NASA’s SpaceX CRS-29 mission. NASA and SpaceX are targeting 9:16 p.m. EST Tuesday, Nov. 7, to launch the company’s 29th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy […]

Posted November 1, 2023

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Kennedy Awards Operational, Institutional Support Contract

NASA has awarded the Kennedy Operational and Institutional Support (KOIS) contract to Chiricahua-Logical Joint Venture of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide services at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. KOIS is an Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity, Level of Effort contract that includes a one-month phase-in period beginning Nov.

Posted October 31, 2023

NASA Centers & Facilities

Artemis

Gateway Program

Kennedy Space Center

Mars

People of NASA

NASA, JAXA Benefit from Collaborative Fellowship Experience

A yearlong journey of cultural and professional development overseas has a NASA Deep Space Logistics employee excited about current and future collaboration with one of America’s key international partners in the agency’s Artemis program. Katherine Cook, who develops cargo delivery services for NASA’s Gateway, recently returned to the agency’s K

Posted October 27, 2023

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Commercial Crew

Commercial Space

Commercial Space Programs

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

Progress Continues Toward NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to Station

NASA and Boeing are working to complete the agency’s verification and validation activities ahead of Starliner’s first flight with astronauts to the International Space Station.

Posted October 27, 2023

Humans in Space

Commercial Crew

Commercial Space

Commercial Space Programs

International Space Station (ISS)

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Updates Commercial Crew Planning Manifest

NASA and its industry partners Boeing and SpaceX are planning for the next set of missions to the International Space Station for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Crew-8 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the orbiting laboratory is targeted to launch no earlier than mid-February.

Posted October 27, 2023

Artemis 2

Exploration Ground Systems

Kennedy Space Center

Artemis II Water Deluge Test

NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems conducts a water flow test with the mobile launcher at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s in Florida on Oct. 24, 2023. It is the third in a series of tests to verify the overpressure protection and sound suppression system is ready for launch of the Artemis II mission. During liftoff, 400,000 gallons […]

Posted October 26, 2023

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Sustainability at Kennedy Space Center

Record Number of Sea Turtles Hatch at NASA Spaceport

Humans aren’t the only living creatures using NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as their launchpad to the future. This year, a record number of sea turtle hatchlings got their start in nests built on the undisturbed beaches of the Florida spaceport.

Posted October 25, 2023

International Space Station (ISS)

Kennedy Space Center

Laser Communications Relay

Join NASA to Discuss High-Rate Laser Comms Demo, Space Station Science

Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated on Oct. 23 to update the list of participants for the teleconference. NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 26, to discuss a laser communications system and new research to understand the interactions between weather on Earth and in space. The investigations are two of […]

Posted October 20, 2023

Kennedy Space Center

Psyche Mission

Launching to a Metal-Rich Asteroid

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This image captures the beginning of the spacecraft’s journey to a metal-rich asteroid of the same name. The body of the Psyche spacecraft is about the size of a small van, and it’s […]

Posted October 16, 2023

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Psyche Mission

Preparing Psyche for Launch

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the horizontal integration facility on Oct. 10, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as preparations continue for the Psyche mission. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will travel to a metal-rich asteroid by the same name orbiting the […]

Posted October 12, 2023