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NASA Selects 12 New Lunar Science, Technology Investigations
NASA has selected 12 new science and technology payloads that will help us study the Moon and explore more of its surface as part of the agency’s Artemislunar program. These investigations and demonstrations will help the agency send astronauts to the Moon by 2024 as a way to prepare to send humans to Mars for the first time. The selected investigations will go to…
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NASA EXPLORERS: 50th ANNIVERSARY OF APOLLO 11
Thanks to Nichole Heydenburg from Apex Waves for this article Nasa Explorers The quest of NASA’s explorer’s program is providing recurring flight assistance for global scientific investigation from space-related innovation and effective managerial approaches for Heliophysics and Astrophysics. Explorers create opportunities for scientific innovations by filling up the spaces between the larger scientific missions. The program seeks…
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NASA Awards Contract for Telescope Facility Management, Operations
NASA has awarded a contract to University of Hawaii Systems in Honolulu for management and operational support of the agency’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) and related services. The contract has a hybrid firm-fixed-price core with indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity firm-fixed-price task orders, and a total potential value of approximately $32.8 million. It begins July 1 with a one-year base period, followed by four…
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NASA Selects Teams to Study Our Moon, Mars’ Moons, and More
NASA has selected eight new research teams to collaborate on research into the intersection of space science and human space exploration as part of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI). “The discoveries these teams make will be vital to our future exploration throughout the solar system with robots and humans,” said Lori Glaze, director of the Planetary Science…
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NASA to Livestream South America Total Solar Eclipse
NASA has partnered with the Exploratorium in San Francisco to bring live views to people across the world of a total solar eclipse, occurring Tuesday, July 2, over South America. The eclipse will only be visible directly to observers within the path of totality, which stretches across parts of Chile and Argentina. NASA will livestream three Exploratorium views via separate players on…
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NASA Highlights Science on 18th SpaceX Resupply Mission to Space Station
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 9, to discuss select science investigations launching on the next SpaceX commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station. Audio of the teleconference will stream live online at: https://www.nasa.gov/live SpaceX is targeting 7:35 p.m. Sunday, July 21, for the launch of its Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket…
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NASA to Announce New Solar System Mission, Hold Media Teleconference
NASA will announce a major new science mission to explore our solar system during a broadcast of NASA Science Live at 4 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 27. The announcement will air on NASA Television, the agency’s website, Facebook Live, YouTube, Periscope and USTREAM. Media may ask questions during the program by emailing their name, affiliation, and phone number to Courtney O’Connor at [email protected] by 3:45 p.m. Thursday. The public…
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Coverage Set for NASA Test of Orion Abort System for Moon to Mars Missions
NASA Television will broadcast launch and prelaunch activities for the Ascent Abort-2 flight test of the launch abort system for NASA’s Orion spacecraft’s, which will help pave the way for Artemis missions with astronauts to the Moon and then Mars. The test’s four-hour launch window opens at 7 a.m. EDT Tuesday, July 2. A test version of the crew module will launch from Space Launch Complex…
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NASA Awards Contract for Second Mobile Launcher at Kennedy Space Center
NASA has selected Bechtel National, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, to design and build a second mobile launcher, known as Mobile Launcher 2 or ML2, for Exploration Ground Systems at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The cost-plus-award-fee end item contract has a total value of approximately $383 million. Bechtel National will complete the design, build, test, and commissioning of the mobile launcher within…
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NASA Technology Missions Launch on SpaceX Falcon Heavy
NASA technology demonstrations, which one day could help the agency get astronauts to Mars, and science missions, which will look at the space environment around Earth and how it affects us, have launched into space on a Falcon Heavy rocket. The NASA missions lifted off at 2:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as part of…
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