NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit, Russian Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands launched to the International Space Station aboard their Soyuz TMA-03M craft at 7:16 a.m. CST Wednesday, Dec. 21 (7:16 p.m. local time), from Kazakhstan.
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In 2011, NASA began developing a heavy-lift rocket for the human exploration of deep space, helped foster a new era of commercial spaceflight and technology breakthroughs, fully utilized a newly complete space station and made major discoveries about the universe we live in, many of which will benefit life on Earth.
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NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system.
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Just in time for the holidays, the residents of the International Space Station will welcome three new crew members.
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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 selected 85 small business proposals to enter into negotiations for Phase II contract awards through the agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program.
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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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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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