NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden will sign an interagency agreement and hold a media availability from 10 to 11 a.m. PDT on Thursday, July 16, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
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Senator Barbara A. Mikulski will join NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman, John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and Ralph Semmel, director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland today for a briefing on New Horizons and a tour of the mission operations center.
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NASA will provide comprehensive television, Internet and social media coverage this week of the agency’s New Horizons spacecraft historic July 14 flyby of Pluto. The time for the flyby preview news briefing on NASA Television Monday, July 13 has moved up 30 minutes, and now will start at 10:30 a.m. EDT.
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A new NASA study of ocean temperature measurements shows in recent years extra heat from greenhouse gases has been trapped in the waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans. Researchers say this shifting pattern of ocean heat accounts for the slowdown in the global surface temperature trend observed during the past decade.
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NASA has selected four astronauts to train and prepare for commercial spaceflights that will return American launches to U.S. soil and further open up low-Earth orbit transportation to the private sector.
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NASA is inviting media to cover the New Horizons spacecraft’s closest approach and July 14 Pluto flyby from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, site of the mission operations center.
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A new book from NASA is showing how research aboard the International Space Station helps improve lives on Earth while advancing NASA’s ambitious human exploration goals.
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A new book from NASA is showing how research aboard the International Space Station helps improve lives on Earth while advancing NASA’s ambitious human exploration goals.
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NASA will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT today to discuss the New Horizons spacecraft returning to normal science operations after a July 4 anomaly. The mission remains on track to conduct the entire close flyby sequence as planned, including the July 14 flyby of Pluto.
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NASA has selected seven technology proposals for continued study under Phase II of the agency’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program. The selections are based on the potential to transform future aerospace missions, introduce new capabilities or significantly improve current approaches to building and operating aerospace systems.
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