NASA Awards Contract for Project and Engineering Support Services

NASA has selected Millennium Engineering and Integration Services LLC of Arlington, Virginia, for a contract providing support for flight and mission projects, including all advanced engineering capabilities needed to support the research and development mission at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

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NASA, ESA Choose Astronauts for SpaceX Crew-3 Mission to Space Station

NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) have selected three astronauts to serve as crew members for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station, which is expected to launch in the fall of 2021.

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NASA Awards Venture Class Launch Services Demonstration 2 Contract

NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has awarded multiple Venture Class Launch Services Demonstration 2 (VCLS Demo 2) contracts to launch small satellites (SmallSats) to space, including CubeSats, microsats or nanosatellites.

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NASA to Provide Spanish-Language Coverage, Livestream of Solar Eclipse

NASA will provide live coverage Monday, Dec. 14, of a solar eclipse that will pass over South America, treating parts of Chile and Argentina to views of a total eclipse of the Sun.

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NASA, US, European Partner Satellite Returns First Sea Level Measurements

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, a joint U.S.-European satellite built to measure global sea surface height, has sent back its first measurements of sea level.

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NASA Exploration Mission Integral to 2020 National Space Policy

Today, President Donald J. Trump issued the National Space Policy.

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NASA Names Artemis Team of Astronauts Eligible for Early Moon Missions

NASA has selected 18 astronauts from its corps to form the Artemis Team and help pave the way for the next astronaut missions on and around the Moon as part of the Artemis program.

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NASA Awards Prizes to Six Startup Companies in Entrepreneur’s Challenge

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has awarded prize funding of $100,000 each to six entrepreneurial startup companies under its pilot Entrepreneur’s Challenge program for concepts ranging from machine learning to enable exploration and other technologies to new ways to build instruments to study the universe.

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Arkansas Students to Speak with NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station

Students from Arkansas will have an opportunity this week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

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NASA Defines Science Priorities for First Crewed Artemis Landing on Moon

NASA has identified the agency’s science priorities for the Artemis III mission, which will launch the first woman and next man to the Moon in 2024.

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NASA Science, New Airlock Heads to Space Station on SpaceX Cargo Spacecraft

The latest SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with more than 6,400 pounds of science investigations, a new airlock, and other cargo after launching at 11:17 a.m. EST Sunday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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