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NASA Selects Human Space Flight Technical Integration Contractor

By |2025-07-28T16:22:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected Barrios Technology, LLC, in Houston to provide technical integration services for the agency’s human spaceflight programs. The Mission Technical Integration Contract is a cost-plus-award-fee and cost-plus-incentive fee contract with core and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity requirements. It has a total estimated value of approximately $450 million, and a period of performance beginning Oct. [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4609–4610: Recharged and Ready To Roll Onwards

By |2025-07-28T15:57:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity NavigationCuriosity HomeMission OverviewWhere is Curiosity?Mission UpdatesScienceOverviewInstrumentsHighlightsExploration GoalsNews and FeaturesMultimediaCuriosity Raw ImagesImagesVideosAudioMosaicsMore ResourcesMars MissionsMars Sample ReturnMars Perseverance RoverMars Curiosity RoverMAVENMars Reconnaissance OrbiterMars OdysseyMore Mars MissionsMars Home 3 min read Curiosity Blog, Sols 4609–4610: Recharged and Ready To Roll Onwards NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image showing the boxwork hollow where it is investigating, and [...]

2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge

By |2025-07-28T15:00:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Join the 2025 NASA International Space Apps Challenge: Learn, Launch, Lead On October 4–5, 2025, NASA—along with 14 international space agency partners—invites scientists, engineers, coders, designers, storytellers, and space enthusiasts of all kinds to take part in the 2025 NASA International Space Apps Challenge. This two-day global hackathon brings together diverse teams to tackle real-world [...]

OSDR Chats with Begum Mathyk

By |2025-07-28T14:54:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

OSDR Chats: Dr Begum Mathyk Presents Latest Research in this OSDR-Enabled Publication Welcome to “OSDR Chats,” an interview series featuring authors of publications that were enabled by the Open Science Data Repository (OSDR). Researchers share highlights and insights into their work, emphasizing the valuable roles played by the OSDR in their research. This newest interview [...]

NASA Welcomes Senegal as Artemis Accords Signatory

By |2025-07-28T13:44:22-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Senegal signed the Artemis Accords July 24, 2025, during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. In 2020, during the first Trump Administration, the United States, led by NASA and the State Department, joined with seven other founding nations to establish the Artemis Accords, responding to the growing interest in lunar [...]

NASA Drop Test Supports Safer Air Taxi Design and Certification

By |2025-07-28T13:19:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An aircraft body modeled after an air taxi with weighted test dummies inside is shown after a drop test at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The test was completed June 26 at Langley’s Landing and Impact Research Facility. The aircraft was dropped from a [...]

Melissa John Champions Environmental Stewardship at White Sands 

By |2025-07-28T06:00:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

For Melissa John, protecting the environment is her way of contributing to space exploration while preserving the Earth we call home.   As the sustainability program lead at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, John manages efforts to reduce waste, prevent pollution, and promote eco-conscious practices. Over the past 13 years, she [...]

Celebrating 25 Years of Continuous Human Presence Aboard the International Space Station 

By |2025-07-25T15:53:00-04:00July 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Jonny Kim NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. A truly global endeavor, the International Space Station has been visited by more than 280 people from 23 countries and a variety of international and commercial spacecraft. The unique microgravity laboratory has hosted more than 4,000 experiments [...]

NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 33rd Resupply Launch to Space Station

By |2025-07-25T13:18:00-04:00July 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company’s Dragon spacecraft, stands in a vertical position at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.SpaceX Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This [...]

NASA Rehearses How to Measure X-59’s Noise Levels

By |2025-07-25T13:00:00-04:00July 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA test pilot Nils Larson walks around an F-15B research aircraft for a rehearsal flight supporting the agency’s Quesst mission at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The flight was part of a full-scale dress rehearsal for Phase 2 of the mission, [...]

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