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New NASA Artemis Instruments to Study Volcanic Terrain on the Moon

As part of NASA’s regular cadence of robotic lunar missions through Artemis, the agency has selected a new scientific payload to establish the age and composition of hilly terrain created by volcanic activity on the near side of the Moon.

Posted July 14, 2023

NASA Awards Sounding Rocket Operations Follow-On Contract

NASA has awarded the Sounding Rocket Operations IV (NSROC IV) contract to Peraton Inc. of Herndon, Virginia, to support suborbital flight operations managed by the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Posted July 13, 2023

NASA to Host Small Business Administration’s Annual Scorecard Event

Media are invited to join NASA and Small Business Administration leadership at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 18, at NASA Headquarters in Washington to highlight how federal agencies rank on meeting their small business goals.

Posted July 13, 2023

NASA to Discuss Science on Next Northrop Grumman Space Station Mission

NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 18, to discuss the next science investigations bound for the International Space Station aboard Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft on the company’s 19th commercial resupply mission for NASA.

Posted July 11, 2023

NASA Expands Options for Spacewalking, Moonwalking Suits, Services

NASA has awarded Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace task orders under existing contracts to advance spacewalking capabilities in low Earth orbit, as well as moonwalking services for Artemis missions.

Posted July 10, 2023

Join NASA to Celebrate Webb Space Telescope’s First Year of Science

NASA is commemorating the first year of science and discoveries from the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most powerful, and most complex space telescope ever built. To celebrate the anniversary, multiple events will take place online and live across the U.S.

Posted July 7, 2023

NASA Invites Media to Next SpaceX Commercial Crew Space Station Launch

Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA’s seventh rotational mission of a SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station.

Posted July 5, 2023

NASA Hosts OSIRIS-REx Sample Lab Media Day in Houston

Ahead of the first asteroid sample collected by the U.S. arriving on Earth in September, media are invited on Monday, July 24, to see NASA’s newly-built OSIRIS-REx Sample Curation Laboratory where the agency will study the sample at its Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Posted June 30, 2023

NASA Offers Media Interviews in Utah on Asteroid Sample Return

NASA invites media to the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground about 80 miles southwest of Salt Lake City on Thursday, July 20, before the agency’s first asteroid sample collected in space is returned to Earth.

Posted June 28, 2023

NASA to Provide Coverage for Launch of ESA ‘Dark Universe’ Mission

The ESA (European Space Agency) and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 11:11 a.m. EDT Saturday, July 1, to launch the Euclid spacecraft. Euclid is an ESA mission with contributions from NASA that will shed light on the nature of dark matter and dark energy, two of the biggest modern mysteries about the universe.

Posted June 26, 2023