Space
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NASA Awards Contract for Intelligent Systems Research
NASA has selected Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, LLC, a KBRwyle business unit, of Greenbelt, Maryland, for a contract for intelligent systems research and development support services at the agency’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF) hybrid contract consisting of firm-fixed-price (FFP) contract line item numbers (CLINs) for phase-in and core management requirements; and CPFF or…
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NASA, SpaceX Complete Final Major Flight Test of Crew Spacecraft
NASA and SpaceX completed a launch escape demonstration of the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket Sunday. This was the final major flight test of the spacecraft before it begins carrying astronauts to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The launch escape test began at 10:30 a.m. EST with liftoff from historic Launch Complex 39A at…
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NASA Pays Tribute, Says Goodbye to One of Agency’s Great Observatories
NASA Pays Tribute, Says Goodbye to One of Agency’s Great Observatories NASA will host a live program at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 22, to celebrate the far-reaching legacy of the agency’s Spitzer Space Telescope – a mission that, after 16 years of amazing discoveries, soon will come to an end. The event will air live on NASA Television, Facebook…
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NASA’s Newest Astronauts Ready for Space Station, Moon, and Mars Missions
Editor’s Note: This release was updated shortly after being issued to correct the number of active astronauts in NASA’s corps to 48.NASA welcomed 11 new astronauts to its ranks Friday, increasing the number of those eligible for spaceflight assignments that will expand humanity’s horizons in space for generations to come. The new astronauts successfully completed more than two years of required…
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NASA Awards Contract for Aircraft Operations Support
NASA has awarded a contract to Vertex Aerospace LLC of Madison, Mississippi, for aircraft operations support at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and other NASA centers, as needed. The five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a value of $150 million and begins March 1. Vertex will support all NASA-assigned aircraft operations, including maintenance, modification, and flight line operations.…
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NASA’s Moon to Mars Plans, Artemis Lunar Program Gets Fast Tracked in 2019
In 2019, NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the agency’s Apollo 11 Moon landing, the most historic moment in space exploration, while also making significant progress toward putting the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024 under the Artemis program. Through America’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, Artemis gained bipartisan support this year among members of Congress, the U.S aerospace industry, as well as with international…
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NASA Television to Air Boeing Starliner Spacecraft Landing
NASA and Boeing will provide live coverage of the landing on Sunday, Dec. 22, of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, on return from its Orbital Flight Test for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Starliner will execute a deorbit burn at 7:23 a.m. EST to begin its return to Earth, headed for a parachute-assisted landing at 7:57 a.m. at White Sands Space Harbor…
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NASA, Boeing to Provide Update on Starliner Orbital Flight Test Status
NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST Saturday, Dec. 21, to discuss the status of the Boeing Orbital Flight Test, and the test objectives that have been, and are expected to be, accomplished related to NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Audio of the teleconference will stream live online at: NASA Live The uncrewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft…
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ULA and Boeing have a successful launch of Starliner
UPDATE: It appear that the Starliner suffered a malfunction and used extra fuel ment to get the spacecraft to the ISS shortly after this post. We will update you when we hear what Boeing decides to do next. At 6:36 AM EST ULA and Boeing had a successful launch of the new Starliner Crew Capsule on it’s way to the…
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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Environmental Satellite Mission
NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC (ULS) of Centennial, Colorado, to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T) mission, which will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth’s weather, oceans and environment, real-time mapping of total lightning activity, and improved monitoring of solar activity and space weather. The total cost for NASA to launch GOES-T is approximately…
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