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Space 30 May 2018

NASA Previews Mission to Study Frontier of Space

WASHINGTON, May 29, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA will host a media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, June 4, on the agency’s mission to explore Earth’s ionosphere and the processes…

Space 24 May 2018

NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Mission Crew Members

WASHINGTON, May 24, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch and Andrew Morgan have been assigned to spaceflights scheduled to launch in 2019. Both Koch and Morgan were selected…

Space 27 March 2018

NASA Hosts Media Teleconference on Status of James Webb Space Telescope

WASHINGTON, March 26, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday, March 27, to provide an update on the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope…

Space 15 February 2018

NASA Awards Mission Operations, Data Processing Contract for Solar Energy Instrument

GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA has awarded a contract to the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, for mission operations and…

Space 9 January 2018

NASA and DLR Invite Media Behind the Scenes of Jet Fuel and Contrail Study

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA and German Aerospace Agency (DLR) will host a media day on Jan. 24 to spotlight a partnership mission called the Multidisciplinary Airborne Experiment…

Space 8 January 2018

NASA Hosts Media to Discuss Testing on James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Hosts Media to Discuss Testing on James Webb Space Telescope WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Media are invited to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston at 2 p.m….

Space 8 January 2018

Astronaut Mario Runco Jr. Retires from NASA

HOUSTON, Jan. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — After nearly 48 years of federal service, veteran NASA astronaut and Earth and planetary scientist Mario Runco Jr. has retired from NASA; his last…

Space 8 January 2018

NASA Remembers Agency’s Most Experienced Astronaut

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on the passing of John Young, who died Friday night following complications from…

Space 21 December 2017

NASA Invests in Concept Development for Missions to Comet

NASA Invests in Concept Development for Missions to Comet, Saturn Moon Titan WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA has selected two finalist concepts for a robotic mission planned to…

Space 15 December 2017

Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling…

Space 7 December 2017

NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Space Station Resupply Mission

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is now targeting its 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for no earlier than 11:46…

Space 7 December 2017

NASA Television Coverage Set for Space Station Crew Landing, Launch

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Three crew members on the International Space Station are scheduled to end their mission and return to Earth on Thursday, Dec. 14, just days…

Space 23 November 2017

NASA to Highlight Science on Next Resupply Mission to Space Station

NASA to Highlight Science on Next Resupply Mission to Space Station WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 29,…

Space 20 November 2017

NASA Launches NOAA Weather Satellite

NASA Launches NOAA Weather Satellite Aboard United Launch Alliance Rocket to Improve Forecasts WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA has successfully launched for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…

Space 9 November 2017

NASA Sets Media Coverage of Rescheduled NOAA Weather Satellite Launch

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) satellite, the first in a new series of four highly advanced National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) polar-orbiting…