New missions, announcements
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6 years ago
Successful Orion Test Brings NASA Closer to Moon, Mars Missions
NASANASA successfully demonstrated Tuesday the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system can outrun a speeding rocket and pull astronauts to safety during an emergency during launch.
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6 years ago
NASA Selects 12 New Lunar Science, Technology Investigations
NASANASA has selected 12 new science and technology payloads that will help us study the Moon and explore more of its surface as part of the agency’s Artemis lunar program. These investigations and demonstrations will help the agency send astronauts to the Moon by 2024 as a way to prepare to send humans to Mars for the first time.
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6 years ago
NASA Selects Teams to Study Our Moon, Mars’ Moons, and More
NASANASA has selected eight new research teams to collaborate on research into the intersection of space science and human space exploration as part of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).
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6 years ago
NASA's Dragonfly Will Fly Around Titan Looking for Origins, Signs of Life
NASANASA has announced that our next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Advancing our search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn’s icy moon.
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6 years ago
Coverage Set for NASA Test of Orion Abort System for Moon to Mars Missions
NASANASA Television will broadcast launch and prelaunch activities for the Ascent Abort-2 flight test of the launch abort system for NASA’s Orion spacecraft’s, which will help pave the way for Artemis missions with astronauts to the Moon and then Mars.
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6 years ago
Coverage Set for NASA Test of Orion Abort System for Moon to Mars Missions
NASANASA Television will broadcast launch and prelaunch activities for the Ascent Abort-2 flight test of the launch abort system for NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which will help pave the way for Artemis missions with astronauts to the Moon and then Mars.
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6 years ago
Media Invited to See Progress on NASA’s Space Launch System for Its First Moon Mission
NASAMedia are invited to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans at 9:30 a.m. CDT Friday, June 28, to view progress on the rocket core stage for the Space Launch System’s Artemis 1 Moon mission.
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6 years ago
NASA Invites Media to Opening of Newly-Restored Apollo Mission Control Center
NASAFifty years ago, an unparalleled team of experts in a mission control center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston landed the first humans on the Moon. Media are invited to join NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine for the reopening of this historic and newly-restored facility at 9 a.m. CDT Friday, June 28.
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6 years ago
Media Invited to Final Roll of Mobile Launcher Before Artemis 1 Moon Mission
NASAMedia are invited to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida from 6 to 10 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 27, to view the agency’s mobile launcher as it makes its final roll on crawler-transporter 2 to Launch Pad 39B prior to the launch of the first Artemis mission.
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6 years ago
NASA Invests $45M in US Small Businesses for Space Tech Development
NASAAmerican small businesses will help NASA land astronauts on the Moon in five years and establish a sustainable presence there, as part of the agency’s larger Moon to Mars exploration approach.
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