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Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Exploration Ground Systems
I Am Artemis
Listen to this audio excerpt from Joe Pavicic, Artemis operations project engineer Joe Pavicic will never forget when he told the Artemis launch director teams were NO-GO for launch. Before Artemis I lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in November 2022, the launch team made multiple launch attempts the months prior.   […]
Posted July 9, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
NASA has awarded a task order to Florida Power and Light of Juno Beach, Florida, to provide electric distribution utility service at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is a fixed-price task order with an estimated value of $70 million over five years. The contract consists of a two-year base period beginning July […]
Posted June 30, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
Artemis 2
Exploration Ground Systems
Johnson Space Center
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Space Launch System (SLS)
NASA and the Department of Defense (DoD) teamed up June 11 and 12 to simulate emergency procedures they would use to rescue the Artemis II crew in the event of a launch emergency. The simulations, which took place off the coast of Florida and were supported by launch and flight control teams, are preparing NASA […]
Posted June 13, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
A NASA photographer captured this June 14, 2013, photo of a bobcat wading through a waterway near Launch Pad 38B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Bobcats are just one of over 30 mammal species that call the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge home, along with hundreds of bird, fish, amphibian, and reptile species. […]
Posted June 11, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Exploration Ground Systems
I Am Artemis
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Lili Villarreal fell in love with space exploration from an early age when her and her family visited the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. So, it should come as no surprise that when the opportunity came for her to start working on NASA’s Artemis missions to return the next humans to the Moon, she jumped at it.  
Posted June 4, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
For Colleges & Universities
Learning Resources
Next Gen STEM
Partner with NASA STEM
STEM Engagement at NASA
STEM Impacts
And the winner is… the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The Utah Student Robotics Club won the grand prize Artemis Award on May 22 for NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Challenge held at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.  “Win was our motto for the […]
Posted June 3, 2025
Game Changing Development Program
Kennedy Space Center
Science Mission Directorate
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA’s RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) manipulates a simulant of regolith – the fragmental material found on the Moon’s surface – during a site preparation test inside of the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Lab at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 27.
Posted June 3, 2025
Artemis 2
Artemis
Exploration Ground Systems
Humans in Space
Kennedy Space Center
Missions
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Space Launch System (SLS)
Teams responsible for preparing and launching Artemis II at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set to begin a series of integrated tests to get ready for the mission. With the upper stage of the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) integrated with other elements of the rocket, engineers are set to start the tests […]
Posted May 29, 2025
Space Operations Mission Directorate
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Office
Launch Services Program
NASA Headquarters
NASA has selected Rocket Lab USA Inc. of Long Beach, California, to launch the agency’s Aspera mission, a SmallSat to study galaxy formation and evolution, providing new insights into how the universe works. The selection is part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract.
Posted May 14, 2025
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