Kennedy Space Center

Goddard Space Flight Center
Astrophysics Division
Astrophysics Pioneers
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Office
Launch Services Program
Space Operations Mission Directorate
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.
Posted February 10, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Kennedy Space Center
Missions
Science Mission Directorate
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
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
Coronal Mass Ejections
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Office
Launch Services Program
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
Science & Research
Solar Wind
Space Weather
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Technicians supporting NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission deployed and tested the spacecraft’s solar arrays at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of its launch next month.
Posted January 28, 2025
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Astrophysics Division
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
Science Mission Directorate
NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 31, to discuss a new telescope that will improve our understanding of how the universe evolved and search for key ingredients for life in our galaxy. Agency experts will preview NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and […]
Posted January 27, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
A NASA photographer took this portrait of a curious sandhill crane on March 24, 2021, near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Sandhill cranes are just one of the hundreds of types of birds that call the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, which shares space with NASA Kennedy, their home. […]
Posted January 27, 2025
Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Kennedy Space Center
Langley Research Center
Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium
Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative
NASA Headquarters
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA Space Technology has big travel plans for 2025, starting with a trip to the near side of the Moon! Among ten groundbreaking NASA science and technology demonstrations, two technologies are on a ride to survey lunar regolith – also known as “Moon dust” – to better understand surface interactions with incoming lander spacecraft and […]
Posted January 24, 2025
Artemis 2
Exploration Ground Systems
Kennedy Space Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program continue stacking the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s twin solid rocket booster motor segments for the agency’s Artemis II mission, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Posted January 24, 2025
Artemis
Artemis 2
Exploration Ground Systems
Kennedy Space Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
Teams with NASA are gaining momentum as work progresses toward future lunar missions for the benefit of humanity as numerous flight hardware shipments from across the world arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first crewed Artemis flight test and follow-on lunar missions. The skyline at Kennedy will soon see added […]
Posted January 17, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Earth's Moon
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Lunar Science
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on its way to our nearest celestial neighbor aboard a commercial spacecraft, where they will provide insights into the Moon’s environment and test technologies to support future astronauts landing safely on the lunar surface under the agency’s Artemis campaign.
Posted January 15, 2025
Robert D. Cabana
Bill Nelson
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
NASA Headquarters
Pamela A. Melroy
Space Shuttle
Stennis Space Center
Robert Cabana, who served as a NASA associate administrator, astronaut, and a colonel in the United States Marine Corps, received the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, recognizing his exceptional achievements and public service to the nation.
Posted January 13, 2025
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