Kennedy Space Center

Rescuers at the Ready at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

If there’s an emergency at the launch pad during a launch countdown, there’s a special team engineers at Kennedy Space Center teams can call on – the Pad Rescue team. Trained to quickly rescue personnel at the launch pad and take them to safety in the event of an unlikely emergency, NASA’s Pad Rescue team at […]

Posted August 16, 2024

Artemis 2

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

Kennedy Space Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Michoud Assembly Facility

Space Launch System (SLS)

NASA Invites Media to Watch Artemis II Rocket Adapter Roll Out

To mark progress toward the first crewed flight test around the Moon in more than 50 years for the benefit of humanity, NASA will welcome media Wednesday, Aug. 21, to see a key adapter for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at its Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The cone-shaped launch vehicle […]

Posted August 14, 2024

Artemis 2

Kennedy Space Center

A Practiced Escape

In preparation for NASA’s Artemis II crewed mission, teams at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida practice getting out of the emergency escape, or egress, basket on Aug. 9, 2024. The baskets, similar to gondolas on ski lifts, are used in the case of a pad abort emergency to enable astronauts and other pad […]

Posted August 14, 2024

MOSAICS

For Colleges & Universities

Goddard Space Flight Center

Kennedy Space Center

Learning Resources

MUREP

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Funds Research Projects Advancing STEM Career Development

NASA has awarded $6 million to 20 teams from emerging research institutions across the United States supporting projects that offer career development opportunities for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students.

Posted August 14, 2024

Artemis 2

Artemis

Exploration Ground Systems

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Teams Change Brakes to Keep Artemis Crew Safe

Recently, teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Program at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center met with engineering teams at a central Florida amusement park to share knowledge on a new braking system NASA is using for its launch pad emergency egress system for Artemis missions. “We have a new magnetic braking system for the […]

Posted August 9, 2024

Get Involved

Kennedy Space Center

Learning Resources

Opportunities For Students to Get Involved

STEM Engagement at NASA

Calling All Innovators: Apply for NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Challenge

NASA invites teams from colleges, universities, as well as technical and vocational schools around the country to test their engineering skills in the 2025 Lunabotics Challenge. Applications open at 5 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 6.

Posted August 8, 2024

Artemis 2

Exploration Ground Systems

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

Artemis Emergency Egress System Emphasizes Crew Safety

Since NASA began sending astronauts to space, the agency has relied on emergency systems for personnel to safely leave the launch pad and escape the hazard in the unlikely event of an emergency during the launch countdown. During the Mercury and Gemini programs, NASA used launch escape systems on spacecraft for the crew to safely […]

Posted August 6, 2024

Small Satellite Missions

CubeSat Launch Initiative

CubeSats

For Colleges & Universities

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Program

Learning Resources

Space Operations Mission Directorate

NASA Seeks Student Missions to Send to Space in 2026, Beyond

NASA announced a new round of opportunities for CubeSat, developers to build spacecrafts on that will fly on upcoming launches through the agency’s CSLI (CubeSat Launch Initiative). CubeSats are a class of small spacecraft called nanosatellites. The initiative provides space access to U.S.

Posted August 6, 2024

Biological & Physical Sciences

Glenn Research Center

ISS Research

Kennedy Space Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Materials Science

Physical Sciences

Plant Biology

Space Biology

NASA Sends More Science to Space, More Strides for Future Exploration

Biological and physical investigations aboard the Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply mission NG-21 included experiments studying the impacts of zero gravity on grass, how packed bed reactors could improve water purification both in space and on Earth, and observations on new rounds of samples that will allow scientists to learn more about the cha

Posted August 5, 2024

International Space Station (ISS)

Commercial Resupply

CubeSat Launch Initiative

CubeSats

ISS Research

Johnson Space Center

Kennedy Space Center

Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply

Small Satellite Missions

NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 21st Northrop Grumman Mission to Station

Following a successful launch of NASA’s Northrop Grumman 21st commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for the agency are bound for the International Space Station. Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft, carrying more than 8,200 pounds of supplies to the orbiting laboratory, lifted off at 11:02 a.m.

Posted August 5, 2024