NASA Centers & Facilities

Ten explorers are currently training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to become flight-eligible astronauts. Selected in 2025, the astronaut candidates are building the technical and operational skills needed for future missions to the International Space Station, the Moon, and eventually Mars.

Posted March 19, 2026

Armstrong Flight Research Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Armstrong Director Brad Flick to Retire After 40 Years of Service

On Monday, NASA announced Bradley Flick, director of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, will retire Thursday, March 19, after a nearly 40-year career advancing aeronautics and flight research. Flick began his NASA journey in 1986 as a flight systems engineer and rose through the ranks to lead the center.

Posted March 9, 2026

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Shared Services Center

Grants

Grants Status Requests To submit a request, visit NASA General Information Request Form and complete the form. You will receive an automated email with the most commonly requested grant status information.

Posted February 10, 2026

Goddard Space Flight Center

Goddard Technology

NASA Centers & Facilities

Technology

NASA Awards Global Modeling, Assimilation Support Contract

NASA has selected ADNET Systems, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, to provide global modeling and data assimilation support at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Posted January 23, 2026

NASA Headquarters

Ames Research Center

Apollo 1

Johnson Space Center

Kennedy Space Center

Langley Research Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

Space Shuttle

Stennis Space Center

NASA’s Day of Remembrance Honors Fallen Heroes of Exploration

NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 22, which includes commemorating the crews of Apollo 1 and the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. The event is traditionally held every year on the fourth Thursday of January, as all three astronaut accidents happened around the end of the month. “On NASA’s Day […]

Posted January 21, 2026

Wallops Flight Facility

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

Technology

NASA Awards Launch Range Contract for Wallops Flight Facility

NASA has selected ARES Technical Services Corporation of McLean, Virginia, to provide launch range operations support at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Wallops Range Contract has a total potential value of $339.8 million with a one-year base period expected to begin Tuesday, Feb.

Posted January 6, 2026

General

Advanced Air Transport Technology

Advanced Air Vehicles Program

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Aerosciences Evaluation Test Capabilities

Glenn Research Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

Transformational Tools Technologies

Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program

NASA Software Raises Bar for Aircraft Icing Research

When flying in certain weather conditions, tiny freezing water droplets floating in the air can pose a risk to aircraft. If not taken into consideration, these water droplets can accumulate on an aircraft as ice and pose a safety risk. But NASA software tools such as Glenn Icing Computational Environment (GlennICE) are working to keep […]

Posted December 4, 2025

NASA Centers & Facilities

Glenn Research Center

Kennedy Space Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Stennis Space Center

NASA Awards Liquid Hydrogen Supply Contracts

NASA has selected Plug Power, Inc., of Slingerlands, New York, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., of Allentown, Pennsylvania, to supply up to approximately 36,952,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen for use at facilities across the agency.

Posted November 21, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Directorates

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

NASA’s IMAP Mission to Study Boundaries of Our Home in Space

Summary Space is a dangerous place — one that NASA continues to explore for the benefit of all. It’s filled with radiation and high-energy particles that can damage DNA and circuit boards alike. Yet life endures in our solar system in part because of the heliosphere, a giant bubble created by the Sun that extends […]

Posted September 17, 2025

Asteroids

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lucy

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Directorates

Planetary Science Division

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System

Trojan Asteroids

Regions on Asteroid Explored by NASA’s Lucy Mission Get Official Names

The IAU (International Astronomical Union), a global naming authority for celestial objects, has approved official names for features on Donaldjohanson, an asteroid NASA’s Lucy spacecraft visited on April 20.

Posted September 16, 2025