*NASA Finds New Homes for Artemis Generation of ‘Moon Trees’ Across US* * * April 25, 2024   *RELEASE: 24-060* * * **** Photo of a Loblolly Pine Artemis I Moon Tree during a tree dedication ceremony at the North Carolina Governor’s mansion on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Credits: NASA/OLIA * * After careful review of hundreds of applications, NASA has selected organizations from across the country to receive ‘Moon Treeâ ...Continue Reading

NASA Announces 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners *APR 22, 2024* *RELEASE 24-055* Students from Universidad Católica Boliviana prepare to traverse the course at the 2024 Human Exploration Rover Challenge at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Credits: NASA/Taylor Goodwin NASA announced the winners of the 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) April 22, with Parish Episcopal School, from Dallas, winning first p ...Continue Reading

NASA Nurtures Promising Tech Ideas from Small Businesses *APR 22, 2024* *RELEASE 24-059* Credit: NASA New space technology ideas emerge every day from innovators across the country, and NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program on Monday selected more than 100 projects for funding. This program offers small businesses in the United States early-stage funding and support to advance the agency’s goals of exploring the unknown in air and space while returning benefits to Earth. Specifically, NASA’s ...Continue Reading

April 19, 2024 * * *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-058* * * *NASA Sets Coverage of Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station* * * Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub from Roscosmos is pictured during a spacewalk to inspect a backup radiator, deploy a nanosatellite, and install communications hardware on the International Space Station’s Nauka science module.   NASA will provide live coverage, beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 25, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside the In ...Continue Reading

*Slovenia Signs Artemis Accords, Joins Pursuit of Safer Space* * * April 19, 2024 RELEASE: 24-058 * * **** Matevž Frangež, State Secretary, Ministry of Economy, Tourism, and Sport signs the Artemis Accords on behalf of Slovenia with NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, Ambassador Jamie L. Harpootlian, Rebecca Bresnik, Associate General Counsel for International and Space Law, and Slovenian Ambassador to the United States Iztok MiroÅ¡ič standing behind. Credit: Stat ...Continue Reading

April 17, 2024 *RELEASE: 24-057*   *NASA Announces Winners of Power to Explore Challenge* * * The winners of NASA’s 2024 Power to Explore Student Challenge are: 9-year-old Raine Lin, left, 12-year-old Aadya Karthik, and 18-year-old Thomas Liu. Credit: NASA/Dave Lam   NASA announced the winners on Wednesday of the third annual Power to Explore Challenge, a national writing competition designed to teach K-12 students about the power of radioisotopes for space exploration.   The competition asked s ...Continue Reading

*NASA Invites Media for Climate Update, New Earth Missions*   April 17, 2024 MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-057 For a media briefing in advance of Earth Day, NASA will share info about next steps for its Earth research program, as well as highlight our newest Earth-observing satellite PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem). This image from PACE shows two different communities of phytoplankton in the ocean off the coast of South Africa on Feb. 28, 2024. Credit: NASA * * In anticipation of Earth Day, NASA invit ...Continue Reading

NASA to Host a Pair of Briefings for Starliner Crew Flight *APR 16, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-052* NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare for their mission in the company’s Starliner spacecraft simulator at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Robert Markowitz NASA will host two media opportunities on Thursday, April 25, in preparation for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station. The mission is targeting launch at 10:3 ...Continue Reading

NASA Leadership to Visit Mexico, Strengthen Cooperation *APR 16, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-056* NASA Administrator Bill Nelson discusses the agency’s goals during the annual State of NASA address, Monday, March 11, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Continuing their significant engagement with key government officials around the world to deepen ties and strengthen space collaboratio ...Continue Reading

*New York Students to Hear from NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station* * * April 16, 2024 *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-054* * * **** NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission specialist Jeanette Epps is pictured training inside a Dragon mockup crew vehicle at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX * * Students from Syracuse City School District and Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, will have an opportunity this week to hear from alumna and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps aboard the Internatio ...Continue Reading