NASA’s Johnson Space Center and Texas A&M University will sign an agreement Dec. 19 to begin the move of the primary space shuttle launch and landing trainer, the Shuttle Motion Simulator, to College Station.
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Kepler spacecraft experienced a processor reset. The project team detected a software reboot during regular scheduled contact.
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NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Dec. 20, announcing new discoveries by the Kepler mission.
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NASA has named physicist and former astronaut John Grunsfeld as the new associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. Grunsfeld will take the reins of the office effective Jan. 4, 2012. He succeeds Ed Weiler, who retired from NASA on Sept. 30.
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NASA has reaffirmed its commitment to science with the release of a new framework on scientific integrity. The framework summarizes the agency’s policies and practices that strengthen and uphold scientific integrity.
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Media accreditation for NASA’s second Commercial Orbital Transportation Services demonstration flight is open.
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Engineers at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center conducted another successful test firing of Aerojet’s AJ26 engine No. 8 on Dec. 15, continuing their support of Orbital Sciences Corporation as the company prepares to launch commercial cargo missions to the International Space Station.
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NASA released the fourth in a series of 60-day reports today showing that commercial spaceflight development programs are moving forward.
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NASA will host a media teleconference today, Thursday, Dec. 15, at 11:30 a.m. EST, to discuss a modified competitive procurement strategy for the Commercial Crew Program. The program will assist industry in developing a commercial system that will transport American astronauts into space.
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NASA announced today a modified competitive procurement strategy to keep on track the agency’s plan to have U.S. companies transport American astronauts into space instead of outsourcing this work to foreign governments.
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