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NASA encourages researchers to develop and study unexpected approaches for traveling through, understanding, and exploring space. View the full article

Soyuz Crew Launch to the International Space Station

Artemis I: NASA’s Plans to Travel Beyond the Moon

What Is an Exoplanet?

NASA is targeting no earlier than Sunday, April 11, for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet. View the full article

Students from the Rice Space Institute will have an opportunity this week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. View the full article

Three space travelers, including NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, are poised to launch Friday, April 9, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. View the full article

NASA Drop Test of Orion Spacecraft for Crewed Artemis Missions

Engineers will drop an 14,000-pounds test version of the Orion spacecraft into the Hydro Impact Basin at NASA's Langley Research Center's Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia at 1:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 6. View the full article

Port Relocation of SpaceX Crew Dragon on the International Space Station

Preparing a Small Satellite to Conduct Some Big Science on This Week @NASA – April 2, 2021

NASA has awarded a task order to AT&T Corporation of Virginia to provide support of the agency’s Communications Mission Network Services, including the highest quality, cost-effective telecommunications services for the transmission of data, video, and voice for the agency. View the full article

NASA has selected L3Harris Technologies Inc. of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Raytheon Company of El Segundo, California, for the Geostationary and Extended Orbits (GEO-XO) Imager (GXI) Phase A Study contracts. View the full article

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts aboard the International Space Station will mark another first for commercial spaceflight Monday, April 5, when the four astronauts will relocate the Crew Dragon spacecraft to prepare for the arrival of new crew members in late April and the upcoming delivery of new solar arrays this summer. View the full article

Preparing for First Flight on Mars on This Week @NASA – March 26, 2021

E.Z. Science: Women in Astronomy

Small businesses are vital to NASA’s mission, helping expand humanity’s presence in space and improve life on Earth. View the full article

Vice President Kamala Harris Calls NASA Astronauts Shannon Walker and Kate Rubins

NASA Science Live: Modern-Day Explorers Search for Life Beyond Earth

NASA is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. View the full article

Firing up the Rocket for the Artemis Moon Missions on This Week @NASA – March 19, 2021

NASA Remembers Legendary Flight Director Glynn Lunney

Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk released the following statement after today’s nomination by President Joe Biden of Bill Nelson to serve as the 14th NASA administrator: View the full article

Space Station Crew Relocate Soyuz Spacecraft

Smoke & Fire! NASA Tests the World's Most Powerful Rocket