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08/06/2021
NASA’s Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars Sampling Attempt
Data sent to Earth by NASA’s Perseverance rover after its first attempt to collect a rock sample on Mars and seal it in a…
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07/12/2021
NASA Announces New Johnson Space Center Deputy Director
NASA Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche announced Monday the selection of Stephen A. Koerner as the next deputy director of the center. Koerner will assist Wyche in…
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03/25/2021
NASA Provides $45M Boost to US Small Businesses
Small businesses are vital to NASA’s mission, helping expand humanity’s presence in space and improve life on Earth. NASA has selected 365 U.S. small…
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03/19/2021
NASA, SpaceX Sign Joint Spaceflight Safety Agreement
NASA and SpaceX have signed a joint agreement to formalize both parties’ strong interest in the sharing of information to maintain and improve space safety. This…
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02/27/2021
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Gives High-Definition Panoramic View of Landing Site
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or “head,”…
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02/19/2021
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends Sneak Peek of Mars Landing
Less than a day after NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency’s Jet…
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02/18/2021
Touchdown! NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet
Editor’s note: This release was updated shortly after issuing to update the quotes following landing. The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another…
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02/14/2021
NASA Assigns Astronauts to Agency’s SpaceX Crew-4 Mission to Space Station
NASA has assigned two crew members to launch on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission – the fourth crew rotation flight of the Crew Dragon…
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02/11/2021
NASA Awards Contract to Launch Initial Elements for Lunar Outpost
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation…
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02/09/2021
NASA Celebrates Black History Month with Lessons from African American Leaders
As part of its celebration of Black History Month, NASA will host a virtual discussion at 12 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 10, featuring a…
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02/04/2021
NASA Selects Firefly Aerospace for Artemis Commercial Moon Delivery in 2023
NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, approximately $93.3 million to deliver a suite of 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations to…
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02/01/2021
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Plans for May Asteroid Departure
On May 10, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will say farewell to asteroid Bennu and begin its journey…
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01/23/2021
NASA Invites Media to Next Space Station Cargo Launch With Northrop Grumman
Media accreditation is open for the launch from Virginia of Northrop Grumman’s 15th commercial resupply services mission to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and…
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01/21/2021
NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Releases 2020 Annual Report
The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, issued its 2020 annual report Tuesday examining the agency’s…
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01/18/2021
NASA Moves Forward with Campaign to Return Mars Samples to Earth
NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) are moving to the next phase in a campaign to deepen understanding of whether life ever existed on…
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