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Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

NASA Sending Five Payloads to Moon on Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lander

NASA will kick off 2024 by sending five payloads to the Moon aboard Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander, Astrobotic Peregrine Mission One. The inaugural launch under the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative will blast off Monday, Jan. 8, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket.

Posted January 6, 2024

International Space Station (ISS)

Commercial Crew

Humans in Space

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Socials Program

Experience the Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Mission

Digital content creators are invited to register to attend the launch of the eighth SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket that will carry crew to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission. This mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The targeted launch date for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is […]

Posted January 5, 2024

Armstrong Test Facility (Plum Brook)

Artemis

Artemis 1

Artemis 2

Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s Artemis I Spacecraft Prepped to Depart to Ohio Facility

From Florida to the Moon and back, NASA’s Orion spacecraft is still making moves.

Posted January 5, 2024

Low-Earth Orbit Economy

Commercial Space

General

Humans in Space

NASA Adjusts Agreements to Benefit Commercial Station Development

NASA has modified agreements for two funded commercial space station partners that are on track to develop low Earth orbit destinations for NASA and other customers as the International Space Station retires in 2030.

Posted January 5, 2024

General

Interview with Victoria Hartwick

April 11,2023 You probably know from reading these that we like to start with your early years, where you were born, something about your family, if you have siblings, your parents and what they did, and mixed in with that, how early was it in your life that you developed an interest in what you’ve […]

Posted January 5, 2024

Expedition 70

International Space Station (ISS)

Loral O'Hara

Preflight Checks for Astronaut Loral O’Hara

Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara has her Russian Sokol Suit pressure checked ahead of launching to the International Space Station on Sept. 15, 2023. O’Hara, currently on the station, is scheduled to spend six months there. She and her fellow Expedition 70 crew members are studying an array of microgravity phenomena to benefit humans […]

Posted January 5, 2024

Johnson Space Center

Humans in Space

In-flight Education Downlinks

Jasmin Moghbeli

Learning Resources

Loral O'Hara

NASA Headquarters

NASA Astronauts to Speak with North Carolina, Virginia Students

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

Commercial Space

Commercial Crew

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

NASA, SpaceX Invite Media to Crew-8 Mission Launch to Space Station

Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA’s eighth rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon Endeavour spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station for a science expedition. This mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is targeted for no […]

Posted January 5, 2024

Astrophysics Division

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Exoplanets

Hubble Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

The Universe

NASA Features New Discoveries at American Astronomical Society Meeting

Experts will discuss new research from NASA missions at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), on topics ranging from planets outside our solar system to fleeting, high-energy explosions in the universe. The meeting will take place Jan. 7-11 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. In press […]

Posted January 5, 2024

Aeronautics

Langley Research Center

Supersonic Flight

NASA Sets Coverage for X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Rollout

NASA will provide live coverage as it reveals its X-59 aircraft at 4 p.m. EST on Friday, Jan. 12, as part of the agency’s Quesst mission to make commercial supersonic flight possible. For the first time, the public will see the painted aircraft, which will be unveiled during a ceremony hosted by prime contractor Lockheed […]

Posted January 5, 2024