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Launching a New Earth-Observing Satellite on This Week @NASA – March 4, 2022

NASA will participate in the 2022 Commodity Classic conference, America’s largest farmer-led, farmer-focused educational and agricultural experience.View the full article

Media accreditation now is open for the launch of the fourth SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission.View the full article

NASA successfully launched the third in a series of next-generation weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at 4:38 p.m. EST Tuesday. The newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-T, launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.View the full article

Pioneers to New Frontiers: NASA Women Through the Decades

Students from across the state of Ohio will have an opportunity this week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.View the full article

NASA has selected KBR Wyle Services LLC of Greenbelt, Maryland, to provide safety and mission assurance services to the agency in various locations across the country.View the full article

NASA has selected Howard Hu as the Orion Program manager, based at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.View the full article

An Update on Our Artemis I Mission on This Week @NASA – February 25, 2022

An astronaut steps into a body scanner and, hours later, walks on Mars in a custom-made spacesuit, breathing oxygen that was extracted from Mars' carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere.View the full article

Watch NOAA's GOES-T Weather Satellite Launch to Geostationary Orbit

Members of the media and public are invited to participate in NASA’s imaginAviation, a three-day virtual event that will focus on the future transformation of aviation that begins Tuesday, March 1.View the full article

NASA experts will join a virtual news conference hosted by Axiom Space to preview the launch of Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. The briefing will take place at 11 a.m. EST Monday, Feb. 28.View the full article

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 24, to provide an update on progress toward the launch of the agency’s uncrewed Artemis I mission.View the full article

A fresh supply of 8,300 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 12:40 p.m. EST on Saturday, Feb. 19, aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft, and is now traveling to the International Space Station.View the full article

The Next Commercial Cargo Mission to the Space Station on This Week @NASA – February 18, 2022

NASA will provide coverage of the prelaunch and launch activities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next weather observing and environmental monitoring system satellite.View the full article

Students from Colorado will have an opportunity this week to hear from a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station.View the full article

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Wednesday he appointed new members to the NASA Advisory Council (NAC), which provides leadership counsel and advice on a variety of important and complex agency programs and topics.View the full article

Companies with technologies that may advance exploration but need a little extra push to finalize development have two new opportunities to partner with NASA to make it over the finish line.View the full article

Watch S.S. Piers Sellers Cygnus Capsule Launch to the Space Station – Official NASA Broadcast

Fine-Tuning the James Webb Space Telescope on This Week @NASA – February 11, 2022

NASA has awarded the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation-2 (ICESat-2) Mission Operations Center Support contract to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Dulles, Virginia.View the full article

NASA has selected two science missions – the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) and HelioSwarm – to help improve our understanding of the dynamics of the Sun, the Sun-Earth connection, and the constantly changing space environment.View the full article