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NASA has selected New Directions Technologies Inc. of Ridgecrest, California, for management systems engineering, software development, project management, information technology security, and enterprise architecture support services for the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Ames Research Center in CalifView the full article

We Asked a NASA Scientist: Will an Asteroid Ever Hit Earth?

Students in Georgia and California will each have an opportunity this week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station.View the full article

Why the Moon?

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting Saturday, Aug. 28, at 3:37 a.m. EDT to launch its 23rd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station.View the full article

Highlighting an Upcoming Earth-Observing Mission on This Week @NASA – August 20, 2021

Two astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station Tuesday, Aug. 24, for a spacewalk to install a support bracket in preparation for future installation of the orbiting laboratory’s third new solar array.View the full article

Two astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station Tuesday, Aug. 24, for a spacewalk to install a support bracket in preparation for future installation of the orbiting laboratory’s third new solar array.View the full article

NASA is calling on all sixth through 12th-grade educators and students to submit experiments for possible suborbital flights as a way of gaining firsthand experience with the design and testing process used by NASA researchers.View the full article

La NASA hace un llamado a todos los educadores y estudiantes de grados 6.º a 12.º para que presenten experimentos para posibles vuelos suborbitales como una forma de obtener experiencia de primera mano en el proceso de diseño y prueba utilizado por los investigadores de la NASA.View the full article

Celebrating Gene Roddenberry: Star Trek's Bridge and NASA

NASA is helping the legacy of inspiration, hope, and diversity fostered by the creator of Star Trek to live long and prosper.View the full article

NASA will host a media teleconference Monday, Aug. 23, at 1 p.m. EDT to discuss science investigations launching on the next SpaceX commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station.View the full article

NASA has awarded a contract to TechTrans International (TTI) Inc. of Houston to provide translation, interpretation, language training, and logistics services for the agency’s International Space Station Program, with the option to support additional programs and NASA centers, if required.View the full article

NASA has selected Leidos Inc. of Reston, Virginia, to provide program, science, engineering, operations, and project management support at the agency’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California.View the full article

Students in Arkansas and Florida will have opportunities this week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station.View the full article

Landsat 9, a joint NASA and U.S. Geological Survey satellite mission, is scheduled to launch Thursday, Sept. 16, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.View the full article

Science Launching on SpaceX's 23rd Cargo Resupply Mission to the Space Station

A Commercial Resupply Mission to the Space Station on This Week @NASA – August 13, 2021

NASA and Boeing are continuing discussions on the status of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, and will host a joint media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 13, to discuss the second uncrewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station, as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.View the full article

NASA and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) across the United States are teaming up to bring untapped talent and diverse perspectives to several of the agency’s top priorities: understanding and monitoring global ocean health, returning humans to the Moon through the Artemis program, and helping build a more inclusive workforce.View the full article

Dedicating The Neil A. Armstrong Facility for an American Hero

NASA researchers used precision-tracking data from the agency’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu, significantly reducing uncertainties related to its future orbit, and improving scientists’ ability to determine the total impact probability and predict orbits of other asteroids.View the full article

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with more than 8,200 pounds of science investigations and cargo after launching at 6:01 p.m. EDT Tuesday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.View the full article

NASA is continuing its support of university research into technologies for future helicopters and other vertical lift aircraft in partnership with the U.S. Army and Navy.View the full article