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Start Your Engines: NASA to Begin Critical Testing for Future Artemis Missions

NASA will begin a new RS-25 test series Oct. 5, the final round of certification testing ahead of production of an updated set of the engines for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The engines will help power future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. A series of 12 tests stretching into 2024 is […]

Posted October 3, 2023

Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP)

Doing Business with NASA

Hispanic Heritage Month

Organizations

NASA and Bastion: A Collaborative Teamwork Advancing Deep Space Exploration and Ensuring Safety in Missions

As we continue to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, the NASA Office of Small Business Programs is pleased to share the contributions of Bastion Technologies Inc. (Bastion), a Hispanic-owned company that supports NASA’s missions. Their primary role is in Safety & Mission Assurance at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Posted October 3, 2023

Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA)

First NASA One-Year Mars Mission Simulation Reaches 100 Days

The first crew to take part in a yearlong NASA Mars analog mission reached a milestone of 100 days inside the 1,700-square-foot habitat on October 3. The four person, volunteer crew entered the CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space center in Houston on June 25 to begin a 378-day […]

Posted October 3, 2023

NASA Selects Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Contractors

NASA has selected seven companies to provide commercial data in support of the agency’s Earth science research. The Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program will acquire Earth observation data and related services from commercial sources for NASA.

Posted October 2, 2023

People of NASA

Jennifer L. Turner

“I can almost directly trace my entire career back to [my extracurriculars] in high school and a mentor I had. My first foray into engineering was this high school program called the Robotics Science Academy. It was basically my high school’s attempt to put together a curriculum that was designed specifically to prepare students for […]

Posted October 2, 2023

NASA History

65 Years Ago: NASA Begins Operations

On Oct. 1, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officially began operations. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act the previous July, creating NASA to lead America’s civilian space program in response to Soviet advances in space exploration. T. Keith Glennan and Hugh L.

Posted October 2, 2023

Office of the General Counsel (OGC)

Organizations

Contracts and Acquisition Integrity Law Resources

Substantive Areas The following sites provide substantive information on matters of concern to the Contracts and Acquisition Integrity Law Practice Group: Searchable versions of the current Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and NASA FAR Supplement (NFS).

Posted October 2, 2023

General

Ames Research Center

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

Asteroids

Discovery Program

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

Planetary Science Division

Psyche Asteroid

Psyche Mission

Science Mission Directorate

SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) / 747-SP

The Solar System

Clues to Psyche Asteroid’s Metallic Nature Found in SOFIA Data

When the asteroid Psyche has its first close-up with a NASA spacecraft, scientists hypothesize they will find a metal-rich asteroid. It could be part or all of the iron-rich interior of a planetesimal, an early planetary building block, that was stripped of its outer rocky shell as it repeatedly collided with other large bodies during […]

Posted October 2, 2023

NASA Engineering and Safety Center

NESC Technical Bulletin 23-06:Considerations for Software Fault Prevention and Tolerance

The NESC has released a technical bulletin for the Software Engineering community. Mission or safety-critical spaceflight systems should be developed to both reduce the likelihood of software faults pre-flight and to detect/mitigate the effects of software errors should they occur in-flight.

Posted October 2, 2023

NASA History

NASA’s Origins

On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act “to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth’s atmosphere.” At the White House less than a month later, Eisenhower commissioned Dr. T. Keith Glennan, right, as the first administrator for NASA and Dr. Hugh L. […]

Posted October 2, 2023