NASA Headquarters

NASA Headquarters
Bill Nelson
Editor’s note: This news release was updated on Jan. 22, 2024, to adjust the list of participants at Marshall Space Flight Center. In honor of the members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery for the benefit all, the agency will host its annual Day of […]
Posted January 20, 2024
Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Johnson Space Center
NASA Headquarters
The first flight of NASA’s commercial lunar delivery service carrying agency science and technology, as well as other customer payloads intended for the Moon, has come to an end. After 10 days and 13 hours in space, Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One made a controlled re-entry on Earth over open water in the South Pacific at […]
Posted January 19, 2024
NASA Headquarters
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Johnson Space Center
NASA will join an Astrobotic media teleconference at 12 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 18, to discuss updates on their Peregrine Mission One, which is carrying science for the agency as part of its Commercial Lunar Provider Services (CLPS) initiative. The audio-only teleconference will stream live on the agency’s website.
Posted January 13, 2024
Johnson Space Center
ISS Research
NASA Headquarters
NASA has selected 12 companies to provide research, engineering, and mission integration services for the International Space Station Program.
Posted January 12, 2024
NASA Headquarters
Climate Change
Earth
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Read this release in English here. En el año 2023, la temperatura promedio de la superficie de la Tierra fue la más cálida que se haya registrado, según un análisis de la NASA. Las temperaturas globales del año pasado estuvieron alrededor de 1,2 grados Celsius (2,1 grados Fahrenheit) por encima del promedio para el período de […]
Posted January 12, 2024
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Missions
NASA Headquarters
NASA will host a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 17, to discuss the upcoming launch and science objectives of the agency’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission. Once in orbit above Earth, the satellite will shed light on the impact of tiny things – microscopic life in water and microscopic particles […]
Posted January 11, 2024
Humans in Space
In-flight Education Downlinks
International Space Station (ISS)
Jasmin Moghbeli
Johnson Space Center
Learning Resources
Loral O'Hara
NASA Headquarters
Students from Emblem Academy in Santa Clarita, California, will have an opportunity to hear from NASA astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station.   The Earth-to-space call will stream live at 11:35 a.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 16, on NASA+, NASA Television, and the agency’s website.
Posted January 11, 2024
Johnson Space Center
Humans in Space
In-flight Education Downlinks
Jasmin Moghbeli
Learning Resources
Loral O'Hara
NASA Headquarters
Students from North Carolina and Virginia will have separate opportunities next week to each hear from a NASA astronaut living and working aboard the International Space Station. The two Earth-to-space calls will air live Tuesday, Jan. 9, on NASA+, NASA Television, and the agency’s website.
Posted January 5, 2024
Pamela A. Melroy
Earth
NASA Headquarters
NASA is participating in a meeting of the National Space Council on Wednesday, Dec. 20, in Washington. The meeting, chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris, will focus on international partnerships and is the third council meeting held by the Biden-Harris Administration.
Posted December 20, 2023
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
GUSTO (Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory)
Infrared Light
Missions
NASA Headquarters
Origin & Evolution of the Universe
Science & Research
Scientific Balloons
On a vast ice sheet in Antarctica, scientists and engineers are preparing a NASA experiment called GUSTO to explore the universe on a balloon. GUSTO will launch from the Ross Ice Shelf, near the U.S. National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station research base, no earlier than Dec. 21.
Posted December 18, 2023
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