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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight
Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving data from the helicopter via NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at 6:46 a.m. EDT (3:46 a.m. PDT). “Ingenuity is the latest in a…
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NASA Adds Vulcan Centaur Launch Services to Launch Services Contract
NASA has awarded a contract modification to United Launch Services LLC of Centennial, Colorado, to add Vulcan Centaur launch services to the company’s NASA Launch Services II (NLS II) contract, in accordance with the contract’s on-ramp provision. The Vulcan Centaur launch service will be available to NASA’s Launch Services Program to use for future missions in accordance with the on-ramp…
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NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Space Station Crew Landing
Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are scheduled to end their mission on the International Space Station Friday, April 16. Coverage of departure from the station and landing on Earth will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. Rubins, along with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, will close the hatch to the Soyuz…
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Coverage Set for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 Briefings, Events, Broadcasts
NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission with astronauts to the International Space Station. This is the second crew rotation flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon and the first with two international partners. The flight follows certification by NASA for regular flights to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial…
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NASA to Host Virtual Viewing of Orion Spacecraft Drop Test
Engineers will drop a 14,000-pound test version of the Orion spacecraft into the Hydro Impact Basin at NASA’s Langley Research Center’s Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia, at 1:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 6. The test will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app and the agency’s website, and will livestream on multiple agency social media platforms, including the Facebook channels for Orion and Langley. The first…
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NASA Awards Communications Program Mission Network Services Task Order
NASA has awarded a task order to AT&T Corporation of Virginia to provide support of the agency’s Communications Mission Network Services, including the highest quality, cost-effective telecommunications services for the transmission of data, video, and voice for the agency. The NASA Communications Mission Network Services task order is a firm-fixed-price task order with a performance period beginning April 1, 2021,…
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NASA to Host Virtual Symposium Exploring Rise of Commercial Space
From activities in low-Earth orbit to NASA’s Artemis program, the commercial space industry has emerged as an innovator in areas of space access, commerce, and exploration. In an effort to address the growth of commercial space over the past decades and inform the relationship between government and industry for the future, NASA will host a virtual event Wednesday, March 17, through Friday,…
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NASA Awards Rapid IV On-Ramp 1 Contract for Spacecraft Systems, Services
NASA has awarded contracts to Thales Alenia Space France of Cannes, France, and Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. of Rome, Italy, under the On-Ramp feature of the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV (Rapid IV) contract. The work will be performed at the contractors’ facilities in Cannes and Rome. Rapid IV is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that allows the federal government to…
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California Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station
Students from across California will have an opportunity Thursday, March 18, to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 12:35 p.m. EDT on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Shannon Walker will answer prerecorded questions from K-12 students from seven local school districts: Pomona Unified, Ontario-Montclair,…
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NASA, SpaceX Invite Media to Next Commercial Crew Launch
Media accreditation is now open for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station. This is the second crew rotation flight with astronauts on the Crew Dragon spacecraft and the first launch with two international partners as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Expedition 64 official crew portrait The launch, on a Falcon 9 rocket, is targeted for no earlier…
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