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Press Releases
NASA to Broadcast Next Space Station Resupply Launch, Prelaunch Activities
NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting 7:35 p.m. EDT Sunday, July 21, for the launch of its 18th agency-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station. Live coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency’s website Sunday with prelaunch events. The Dragon spacecraft will deliver supplies and critical materials to directly support dozens of the more than 250 science and research…
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Starliner Nears First Uncrewed Launch
American space programs are getting closer to putting an American astronaut back on the Moon. Boeing’s Starliner space capsule just completed its final and most challenging set of parachute tests. The capsule successfully landed at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range after being dropped from a balloon at 40,000 feet with two of its five parachutes disabled. In a further…
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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Groundbreaking Astrophysics Mission
NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, which will allow astronomers to discover, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most exotic astronomical objects in our universe. The total cost for NASA to launch IXPE is approximately $50.3 million, which includes the launch…
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Ball Aerospace Successfully Commissions Small Satellite, Begins On-Orbit Testing of Green Fuel
BOULDER, Colo., July 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Ball Aerospace has officially commissioned NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) and begun on-orbit testing of a non-toxic, high-performance propellant. GPIM launched on June 25, 2019 at 2:30 a.m. EDT on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Ball Aerospace commissions small satellite for NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission, begins on-orbit testing of propellant. “We are excited for the opportunity…
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NASA Scientists, Engineers Honored with Presidential Early Career Awards
President Trump has named 18 NASA researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). These recipients, and 296 other federal researchers, will receive their awards later this year at a ceremony in Washington. The PECASE Award is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to scientists and engineers who are beginning their research…
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New York City Students to Speak with NASA Astronauts on Space Station
Students in New York City will have an opportunity next week to talk with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 10:15 a.m. EDT Monday, July 8, on NASA television and the agency’s website. NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch will answer questions posed by kids participating in the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) Youth Strategies Divisions programs.…
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NASA Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Historic Moon Landing with Live TV Broadcast, Events
NASA will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon mission and look to the future of exploration on the Moon and Mars with a live, two-hour television broadcast Friday, July 19, and partner-led events taking place across the country from July 16 through July 20. On July 16, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins lifted off from Launch…
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Successful Orion Test Brings NASA Closer to Moon, Mars Missions
NASA successfully demonstrated Tuesday the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system can outrun a speeding rocket and pull astronauts to safety during an emergency during launch. The test is another milestone in the agency’s preparation for Artemis missions to the Moon that will lead to astronaut missions to Mars. During the approximately three-minute test, called Ascent Abort-2, a test version of the Orion…
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NASA Awards Contract for Acquisition of Nitrogen, Oxygen
NASA has awarded eight contracts under the NASA-wide Acquisition for Nitrogen and Oxygen 3 (NANO 3) solicitation to eight U.S. companies to supply nitrogen and oxygen to NASA centers for a variety of operational activities. The NANO 3 contracts are fixed-price, indefinite-delivery requirement contracts with economic price adjustment. The five-year contracts begin July 1 and have a combined total value…
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NASA Awards Contract for WFIRST Science Operations Center
NASA has awarded a contract to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland for the agency’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission Science Operations Center (SOC). WFIRST is a NASA observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics. The SOC award…
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