Space Operations Mission Directorate

Humans in Space
Commercial Crew
Commercial Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Space Operations Mission Directorate
Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA’s 10th rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, carrying astronauts to the International Space Station for a science expedition.
Posted February 11, 2025
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
Space Operations Mission Directorate
With more than 17 years of experience at NASA, Lindsai Bland has been an integral part of the agency, contributing to multiple Earth observing system missions at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Posted January 31, 2025
Technology
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
NASA Directorates
Near Space Network
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA has selected multiple companies to expand the agency’s Near Space Network’s commercial direct-to-Earth capabilities services, which is a mission-critical communication capability that allows spacecraft to transmit data directly to ground stations on Earth.
Posted December 21, 2024
Deep Space Network
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Operations Mission Directorate
Deep Space Station 23’s 133-ton reflector dish was recently installed, marking a key step in strengthening NASA’s Deep Space Network. NASA’s Deep Space Network, an array of giant radio antennas, allows agency missions to track, send commands to, and receive scientific data from spacecraft venturing to the Moon and beyond. NASA is adding a new […]
Posted December 21, 2024
NASA Directorates
Commercial Space
Dragonfly
Launch Services Office
Launch Services Program
Missions
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission, a rotorcraft lander mission under NASA’s New Frontiers Program, designed to explore Saturn’s moon Titan. The mission will sample materials and determine surface composition in different geologic settings, advancing our search for the building blocks of life.
Posted November 25, 2024
Space Operations Mission Directorate
Strategic Integration and Management Division
Diana Oglesby’s love for NASA began long before she started working for the agency. A native of Decatur, Texas, Oglesby knew at the age of eight that she would make NASA her future destination. That dream became a reality when Oglesby joined the agency, first as an intern and later as a NASA full-time employee, […]
Posted November 14, 2024
Near Space Network
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA has awarded a contract to Intuitive Machines, LLC of Houston, to support the agency’s lunar relay systems as part of the Near Space Network, operated by the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Posted September 17, 2024
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