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Students from three states will hear from astronauts from three different countries aboard the International Space Station next week. View the full article

A Commercial Cargo Spacecraft Departs the Space Station on This Week @NASA – July 9, 2021

NASA and Northrop Grumman of Dulles, Virginia, have finalized a contract to develop the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) for Gateway, which will be a critical way station and outpost in orbit around the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program. View the full article

NASA's Final Space Shuttle Launch 10th Anniversary Replay

Media accreditation is open for the launch from Virginia of Northrop Grumman’s 16th commercial resupply services mission to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station aboard its Cygnus spacecraft. View the full article

Students from Harlem Link Charter School will have an opportunity this week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station. View the full article

NASA’s public meeting to discuss its recently issued request for information (RFI), entitled Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities in NASA Programs, Contracts and Grants, will take place at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 13. View the full article

The center of Hurricane Elsa has formed to the east of the Windward and southern Leeward islands and is expected to bring heavy rainfall to those areas over the weekend, according to an update Friday from the National Hurricane Center. View the full article

A U.S. Commercial Spacecraft Departs the Space Station on This Week @NASA – July 2, 2021

A Message from NASA Deputy Administrator Col. Pam Melroy to the NASA Workforce

NASA has issued a formal policy that standardizes the criteria and process for media accreditation to cover events and activities at all agency locations. View the full article

NASA has selected PAE Applied Technologies LLC of Fort Worth, Texas, to provide facilities operations and maintenance support services at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. View the full article

NASA’s SpaceX Dragon cargo freighter, loaded with approximately 5,000 pounds of scientific experiments and other cargo from the International Space Station, will depart Tuesday, July 6, bound for a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean Thursday, July 8, completing the company’s 22nd commercial resupply services mission for NASA. View the full article

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has named Vanessa Wyche director of the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and Janet Petro director of Kennedy Space Center in Florida. View the full article

Meet NASA’s Psyche Team Who Will Measure the Asteroid’s Magnetic Field

The NASA Family and Your Family: Moving Forward Safely

Many of NASA's computational innovations were developed to help explore space, but the public can download them for applications that benefit us right here on Earth. View the full article

“Commander Moonikin Campos” is the official name of the manikin launching on Artemis I, NASA’s uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon later this year. View the full article

"Comandante Moonikin Campos" es el nombre oficial del maniquí que se lanzará a bordo de Artemis I, la prueba de vuelo sin tripulación de la NASA del cohete Sistema de Lanzamiento Espacial (SLS por sus siglas en inglés) y la nave espacial Orion alrededor de la Luna a finales de este año. View the full article

For the ninth consecutive year, the Partnership for Public Service has ranked NASA as the Best Place to Work in the Federal Government among large agencies and, new for 2020, has also ranked NASA No. 1 among large agencies for its response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. View the full article

NASA Science Live: International Asteroid Day

NASA has awarded a new, agencywide information technology and communications services contract for Advanced Enterprise Global Information Technology Solutions (AEGIS) to Leidos Inc. of Reston, Virginia. View the full article

Spacewalking Astronauts Work Outside the Space Station on This Week @NASA – June 25, 2021

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced four new additions to the agency’s senior staff Thursday. View the full article

Spacewalk to Continue Installing New Solar Arrays