Sally Ride National Tribute at Kennedy Center Tonight

NASA and Sally Ride Science are inviting journalists to tonight's "Sally Ride: A Lifetime of Accomplishment, A Champion of Science Literacy," a national tribute to America's first woman in space. The

International Space Station Program, Science Briefing Set

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will host a news conference and social media event at 1 p.m. CDT (2 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, May 22, to preview the upcoming Expedition 36 mission aboard the Interna

NASA Administrator Visits California Centers, Meets Media

NASA Administrator Visits California Centers, Meets Media WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will hold media availabilities at all three of the agency's centers in California this week, highlighting progress on the asteroid mission, commercial crew transportation and space technology development.

Vanderbilt Takes Top Prize in NASA Student Launch Challenge

The Aerospace Club of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., took first prize in the 2013 annual NASA Student Launch Projects challenge, in which student teams design, build and fly small rockets

NASA, Bigelow to Discuss Private Sector Human Space Exploration and Development

NASA and Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas are holding a media availability at 1:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, May 23, to discuss the agency's Space Act Agreement with the company for its insight on collaborati

NASA and The White House Pay Tribute to Sally Ride

NASA and The White House Pay Tribute to Sally Ride WASHINGTON -- NASA and President Obama are honoring the life and legacy of Sally Ride on the day a national tribute was held for the first American woman in space.

NASA Seeks Proposals for Commercial Operations at Kennedy's Launch Pad 39A

NASA Seeks Proposals for Commercial Operations at Kennedy's Launch Pad 39A WASHINGTON -- NASA released a synopsis Friday announcing plans to issue an announcement for proposals for the commercial use of Launch Pad 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The announcement is expected next week.

NASA TV Coverage Set for Next Soyuz Space Station Crew Launch

NASA Television will provide extensive coverage of the launch and docking of the next crew members who will fly to the International Space Station on Tuesday, May 28.

NASA Sets TV Briefing Today to Discuss Space Station Status

NASA Sets TV Briefing Today to Discuss Space Station Status HOUSTON -- NASA managers will discuss the status of the International Space Station, including the latest on an external cooling loop leak that developed Thursday, during a televised briefing today at 3 p.m. CDT (4 p.m. EDT).

NASA Extends Safety and Mission Assurance Contract at Marshall

NASA Extends Safety and Mission Assurance Contract at Marshall HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA has exercised a second two-year award term option with Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston for continued services to support the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

NASA Awards Contract to Modify Mobile Launcher

NASA has awarded a contract to J.P. Donovan Construction Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., to modify the mobile launcher that will enable the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket to send humans

NASA Television to Air Space Station Soyuz Landing

NASA Television will provide live coverage May 12-14 as three crew members aboard the International Space Station end five months in orbit and return to Earth for a scheduled landing May 13.

NASA Extends Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contract

NASA Extends Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contract WASHINGTON -- NASA has extended its interim contract with MEI Technologies Inc. of Houston for electrical systems engineering services. The ordering period has been extended for five months from May 9 to Oct. 8.

NASA to Mark 40th Anniversary of Skylab and Life Off Earth

NASA to Mark 40th Anniversary of Skylab and Life Off Earth WASHINGTON -- NASA will commemorate the 40th anniversary of America's first space station Monday, May 13, with a televised roundtable discussion featuring Skylab astronauts, a current astronaut and agency managers planning future space missions.

NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition

Fifty teams of undergraduate and graduate students from around the world will demonstrate their lunar excavator robots May 20 - 24 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA Study Projects Warming-Driven Changes in Global Rainfall

NASA Study Projects Warming-Driven Changes in Global Rainfall WASHINGTON -- A NASA-led modeling study provides new evidence that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall and drought. The study shows for the first time how rising carbon dioxide concentrations could affect the entire range of rainfall types on Earth.

NASA Opens New Era in Measuring Western U.S. Snowpack

NASA Opens New Era in Measuring Western U.S. Snowpack WASHINGTON -- A new NASA airborne mission has created the first maps of the entire snowpack of two major mountain watersheds in California and Colorado, producing the most accurate measurements to date of how much water they hold.

NASA Astrophysicist Elected to National Academy of Sciences

NASA Astrophysicist Elected to National Academy of Sciences WASHINGTON -- NASA astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou, a senior scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has been selected for membership in the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original scientific research.

Success Continues as NASA's Orion Parachute Tests Get More Difficult

Success Continues as NASA's Orion Parachute Tests Get More Difficult WASHINGTON -- A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft safely landed during a simulation of two types of parachute failures Wednesday. In the test, conducted in Yuma, Ariz., the mock capsule was traveling about 250 mph when the parachutes were deployed.

NASA Selects U.S. Small Business Technology Transfer Projects For Further Development

NASA Selects U.S. Small Business Technology Transfer Projects for Further Development WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 14 proposals from small business and research institution teams to continue development of innovative technologies that are needed for future NASA missions and could become viable commercial products and services.