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NASA Preserves Its Past at Kennedy While Building Future of Space

Current and former employees of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida gathered recently to celebrate the installation of a Florida Historical Marker cast in bronze at the location of the spaceport’s old headquarters building. The first of its kind inside the center’s secure area, the marker is the latest example of the center’s commitment to […]

Posted June 20, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

The Marshall Star for June 18, 2024

California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge By Savannah Bullard After two days of live competitions, two teams from southern California are heading home with a combined $1.5 million from NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge. Since 2020, competitors from around the world have competed in this challenge with the […]

Posted June 19, 2024

Hypersonic Technology

Advanced Air Vehicles Program

High-Speed Market Studies

Owing to NASA’s Quesst mission and Commercial Supersonic Technology project, there is growing industry interest in commercial aircraft that fly faster than the speed of sound. In 2020, NASA funded two independent studies to investigate the economic viability of this potential market for high-speed commercial flight.

Posted June 19, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

The Universe

NASA Releases Hubble Image Taken in New Pointing Mode

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken its first new images since changing to an alternate operating mode that uses one gyro. The spacecraft returned to science operations June 14 after being offline for several weeks due to an issue with one of its gyroscopes (gyros), which help control and orient the telescope. This new image […]

Posted June 19, 2024

Science Mission Directorate

Artemis, Architecture, and Lunar Science: SMD and ESDMD Associate Administrators visits Tokyo

June 18, 2024 At NASA we always say that exploration enables science, and science enables exploration.

Posted June 19, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Headquarters

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Awards Logistic Services, Management Contract

NASA has awarded the Goddard Logistics Services Contract to TRAX International Corporation of Las Vegas to provide logistics services and management for NASA missions. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes a base period and up to five options with a potential contract value of approximately $265 million if all options are exercised.

Posted June 18, 2024

GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)

Earth Observatory

Earth Science Division

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Selects Lockheed Martin to Build Next-Gen Spacecraft for NOAA

NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build the spacecraft for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $2.27 billion.

Posted June 18, 2024

Kennedy Space Center

GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)

Launch Services Program

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

NASA Sets Launch Coverage for NOAA Weather Satellite

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U) mission. The two-hour launch window opens at 5:16 p.m.

Posted June 18, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer)

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Etched into Collier Trophy, Aerospace History

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been immortalized at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington as the latest awardee of the Robert J. Collier Trophy. Bestowed annually by the National Aeronautic Association, the trophy recognizes groundbreaking aerospace achievements.

Posted June 18, 2024

Earth

International Space Station (ISS)

Celebrating Juneteenth

The crew aboard the International Space Station captured this image of Galveston, Texas, the birthplace of Juneteenth, as the station orbited 224 miles above on Nov. 23, 2011. In the early 1800s, slavers periodically used Galveston Island as an outpost for operations.

Posted June 18, 2024