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NASA Awards Second Human Health, Performance Contract

By |2025-08-11T16:21:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected KBR Wyle Services, LLC of Fulton, Maryland, to provide services to the Human Health and Performance Directorate at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, which focuses on astronaut health, occupational health, and research that could help mitigate health risks for future human spaceflight missions. The Human Health and Performance [...]

NASA Explores Industry Possibilities to Raise Swift Mission’s Orbit

By |2025-08-11T15:55:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory orbiting above Earth.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (KBRwyle) To drive the development of key space-based capabilities for the United States, NASA is exploring an opportunity to demonstrate technology to raise a spacecraft’s orbit to a higher altitude. Two American companies – Cambrian Works [...]

Space Station Cell Studies

By |2025-08-11T15:00:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read Space Station Cell Studies Cells grown aboard the International Space Station. Credits: University of Connecticut Science in Space August 2025 Cells are the basic building blocks of all living things, from single-celled bacteria to plants and animals containing vast numbers of them. Cells have adapted for a wide variety of settings [...]

NASA Continues Search for Moon-Focused Sustainability Solutions

By |2025-08-11T14:40:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

An artist’s concept of the Moon (right) and Mars (center) against the starry expanse of space. A sliver of the Earth’s horizon can be seen in the foreground.Credit: NASA NASA is accepting U.S. submissions for the second phase of the agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge, a Moon-focused recycling competition. The challenge aims to develop solutions for recycling [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashes Down in Pacific Ocean

By |2025-08-11T13:09:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Keegan Barber The members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission – Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, left, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi – are all smiles after having landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. The crew [...]

Juliana Barajas: Supporting NASA’s Mission, One Task at a Time 

By |2025-08-11T06:00:00-04:00August 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

As an administrative assistant in the Safety and Mission Assurance Office at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Juliana Barajas approaches her work with one clear mission: to help others succeed.   Juliana Barajas stands in front of the Super Guppy at the El Paso Forwarding Operations Location (EPFOL) in El Paso, [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Returns, Splashes Down Off California

By |2025-08-09T13:29:00-04:00August 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025.Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber Editor’s Note: This release was edited Aug. [...]

NASA Selects Contractors to Supply Centers with Helium

By |2025-08-08T16:55:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has chosen a group of contractors to supply multiple agency facilities with liquid and gaseous helium for at least the next two years. The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid and Gaseous Helium contract is a fixed-price indefinite-delivery requirements contract with firm-fixed-price delivery orders. The awards have a total estimated value of approximately [...]

Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell

By |2025-08-08T14:43:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Portrait of NASA astronaut Jim LovellCredit: NASA The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97 years old. “NASA sends its condolences to the family of Capt. Jim Lovell, whose life and [...]

NASA Invites Media to View Heliophysics, NOAA Space Weather Missions

By |2025-08-08T14:25:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Technicians at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida conduct illumination testing on Friday, July 18, 2025, by flashing a bright light that simulates the Sun into the two-panel solar array that will help power the agency’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) observatory on its upcoming journey to a [...]

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