NASA bumps Artemis countdown rehearsal until after Axiom crew launch
Spaceflight Now · 5 Apr 2022
NASA officials said Tuesday they are standing down from a cryogenic loading test on the agency’s Space Launch System moon rocket until after the launch of a commercial crew mission from a neighboring pad at the Kennedy S...
Orbital Reef passes design review
SpaceNews · 5 Apr 2022
Orbital Reef, a commercial space station being developed by a consortium of companies, has completed an initial design review as part of a NASA award.
NASA plans talks with partners on ISS and Artemis
SpaceNews · 4 Apr 2022
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy plans to use this week’s Space Symposium to meet with international partners on both the long-term future of the International Space Station and roles in later phases of NASA’s Artemi...
Spaceborne Computer-2 completes 24 experiments on ISS
SpaceNews · 4 Apr 2022
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft and NASA will share details at the 37th Space Symposium on 24 research experiments completed to date on the International Space Station’s HPE Spaceborne Computer-2.
NASA scrubs first attempt at SLS countdown rehearsal
SpaceNews · 3 Apr 2022
NASA called off the first attempt to fuel its Space Launch System rocket and go through a practice countdown April 3, citing a problem with the rocket’s mobile launcher.
Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal timeline
Spaceflight Now · 3 Apr 2022
This timeline covers major countdown activities planned during the NASA’s wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis 1 mission. The wet dress rehearsal will include loading of more than 700,000 gallons of cryogenic liquid hydro...
Ground system problem halts Artemis 1 countdown dress rehearsal
Spaceflight Now · 3 Apr 2022
NASA launch controllers called off plans to load super-cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the first fully-assembled Space Launch System moon rocket Sunday, giving time for ground teams to troubleshoot problems w...
NASA begins critical Artemis countdown rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center
Spaceflight Now · 1 Apr 2022
NASA commenced a two-day countdown dress rehearsal for the agency’s huge Space Launch System moon rocket Friday, with clocks ticking down to a critical milestone Sunday, when the heavy-lifter will be fueled and pressuriz...
NASA to Participate in Space Symposium, Broadcast Select Panels
NASA · 1 Apr 2022
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Associate Administrator Bob Cabana are among the agency’s speakers at the Space Foundation’s 37th Space Symposium from Wednesday, April 5 to Thursday, April 7 in Colorado Springs,...
NASA Astronaut to Discuss American Space Record in News Conference
NASA · 1 Apr 2022
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, back on Earth after breaking the record for the longest single spaceflight in history by an American, will participate in a virtual news conference at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 5, from the...
NASA still working with Russia on ISS seat barter agreement
SpaceNews · 1 Apr 2022
NASA officials say they are still hopeful to complete a seat barter agreement with Russia in time to allow an exchange of seats on missions this fall despite the tensions between Russia and the West.
Coverage Set for Axiom Mission 1 Briefings, Events, Broadcast
NASA · 31 Mar 2022
NASA and Axiom Space will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut back on Earth after record-setting flight
Spaceflight Now · 30 Mar 2022
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei joined two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth Wednesday, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to close out a...
NASA ready for high-stakes, low-profile SLS test
SpaceNews · 29 Mar 2022
NASA says it’s ready to go ahead with a practice countdown of the Space Launch System that will serve as a final key test before the rocket’s first launch, but one that will also take place largely out of public view.
NASA Names Winners of Lunar Robotics Design Contest
NASA · 29 Mar 2022
NASA has chosen two students as winners of the Lunabotics Junior Contest, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the agency’s Artemis missions.
NASA astronaut, two cosmonauts set for Wednesday return to Earth
Spaceflight Now · 29 Mar 2022
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, launched by Russia to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft last April, returns this week to a world torn by war in Ukraine and escalating superpower tension as he close...
NASA Administrator Statement on President’s FY 2023 Budget Request
NASA · 28 Mar 2022
The President’s fiscal year 2023 budget would allow NASA to sustain America’s global innovation leadership and keep NASA at the forefront of exploration and discovery by returning to the Moon with the Artemis program, am...
White House requests $26 billion for NASA for 2023
SpaceNews · 28 Mar 2022
The Biden administration’s fiscal year 2023 budget proposal seeks nearly $26 billion for NASA, with increases for exploration, Earth science and space technology.
NASA to Provide Updates, Coverage for Final Test Ahead of Moon Mission
NASA · 28 Mar 2022
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, March 29, to discuss the upcoming final major test with the agency’s Mega Moon rocket and spacecraft at the launch pad ahead of the uncrewed Artemis I lunar mi...
White House requests $26 billion for NASA in ’23, adds funds for second moon lander
Spaceflight Now · 28 Mar 2022
The White House’s fiscal year 2023 budget request for NASA totals $26 billion, including $7.5 billion for the agency’s Artemis moon program, a boost over this year’s budget to help pay for development of a second human-r...
Solar Orbiter successfully completes historic close pass of the Sun
NASASpaceflight · 27 Mar 2022
On March 26, 2022, the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft successfully completed its first close pass through the Sun’s corona, bringing the spacecraft’s specially-designed collection of...
NASA to delay Mars Sample Return, switch to dual-lander approach
SpaceNews · 27 Mar 2022
NASA plans to delay the next phase of its Mars Sample Return campaign and split a lander mission into two separate spacecraft to reduce the overall risk of the program.
Roman Space Telescope to search for other Earths by surveying space dust
NASASpaceflight · 26 Mar 2022
With the James Webb Space Telescope continuing its commissioning phase, NASA is already looking ahead to its next major space observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Currently scheduled to launch in 2027, Rom...
Hydrazine loading operations conclude at the SLS launch pad
Spaceflight Now · 25 Mar 2022
Technicians wearing protective self-contained suits loaded toxic hydrazine fuel into the Space Launch System’s hydraulic power units Friday on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center. NASA is gearing up for a countdown dress...
NASA gives priority to Artemis ground test over commercial astronaut launch
Spaceflight Now · 25 Mar 2022
NASA officials gave the green light Friday for the first all-commercial astronaut launch to the International Space Station on a SpaceX rocket as soon as April 3. But the astronaut launch could be delayed a day, or longe...
SLS test could delay Crew Dragon launch
SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2022
A practice countdown for NASA’s Space Launch System could cause a delay in the launch of a commercial mission to the International Space Station, a move with potential ripple effects for other missions to the station.
Atypical Scientists Contribute to NASA Data
Space Scout · 24 Mar 2022
MAR. 24, 2022—To learn how to live on Mars, citizen scientists at NASA undergo analog expeditions somewhere much closer to home: Antarctica.