NASA Johnson Space Center

NASA Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams say they continue to embrace the unexpected.

Wyche replaces Jim Free, who retired on Feb. 22, an announcement from Acting Administrator Janet Petro said on Feb. 24.

NASA’s Habitation and Logistics Outpost is set to undergo installation and testing of valves and hatches, leak checks and integration of external structures.

The robots assist astronauts with scientific research and technology demonstrations.

The four-story facility is located adjacent to the JSC campus.

The grid would provide long-term support of habitats, rovers and scientific research at the Moon’s south pole.

Four volunteers with astronaut-like credentials have concluded the first of NASA’s three planned yearlong Earth-based missions on a simulated Martian surface.

The multiyear Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services contract agreements have a combined maximum potential value of $4.6 billion over 15 years.

The five-year Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract III takes effect June 1.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has announced appointments to a pair of space committees.

NASA’s Johnson Space Center is positioned to receive the largest share of NASA’s $25.384 billion funding request for 2025.

The astronauts graduated from a two-year training period in a ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on March 5.

NASA raised the number of its active duty astronauts eligible for missions from 38 to 48 on March 5 with the graduation of its 2021 class of 10 candidates.

The American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation has signed a lease agreement with NASA’s JSC to become a second tenant of the center’s Exploration Park.

Dana Weigel, NASA’s International Space Station deputy program manager since 2021, is taking over as the 15-nation orbital lab’s program manager.

There is a long history of NASA brain power moving on to private industry.

The agreement is intended to facilitate a growing space economy by creating a “collaborative development environment,” NASA says.

NASA has opened applications for a second set of four volunteers motivated to spend a year in confinement in a simulated, 3D-printed Mars mission habitat.

Former NASA shuttle astronauts Dr. Dave Hilmers and Marsha Ivins have been selected as 2024 inductees into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

The Houston-based company is poised to become the fourth private entity to attempt a lunar landing.

The curation team was forced to halt the disassembly of the mission’s Touch And Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (Tagsam) in mid-October.

Samples from the asteroid Bennu returned to Earth less than three weeks ago by NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission already are paying scientific dividends.

Achieving essential soft landings on the Moon with precision is proving to be a challenge.

NASA, the Japan Exploration Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency will analyze some of the 250 grams of material from the asteroid Bennu.

The Osiris-Rex sample canister with material gathered from the surface of the asteroid Bennu was flown on Sept. 25 from its landing site in the Utah desert to NASA’s Johnson Space Center.