NASA Briefings and Discussions

Captures of NASA officials during briefings about space missions, including discussions on spacecraft development and scientific research.

Pete Hasbrook, associate program scientist for the International Space Station Program, speaks to members of social media in the Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for launch from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A on Aug. 14 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the company's 12th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

Dane Drefke, United Launch Alliance (ULA) lead engineer for Atlas V mechanical operations, speaks in Kennedy Space Centers Neil Armstrong O&C Mission Briefing Room on April 16, 2019, during an employee event in which Dr. Humberto Campins from the University of Central Florida gave a status update on NASAs Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx). The first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, OSIRIS-REx launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sept. 8, 2016 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Management of the launch service for OSIRIS-REx was the responsibility of NASAs Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy.

Brad Doorn, SMAP applications lead, Science Mission Directorates Applied Sciences Program at NASA Headquarters speaks during a briefing about the upcoming launch of the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, Thursday, Jan. 08, 2015, at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. The mission is scheduled for a Jan. 29 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and will provide the most accurate, highest-resolution global measurements of soil moisture ever obtained from space. The data will be used to enhance scientists' understanding of the processes that link Earth's water, energy and carbon cycles.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - MARINE ACOUSTICS LECTURE

NASA Officials gather at Ames Research Center to discuss Spaceship development progress. Constellation is developing the Orion spacecraft and Ares rockets to support an American return to the moon by 2020.

NASA and science investigators from MIT participate in a science briefing for the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in the Press Site auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director, NASA Headquarters, answered questions during the briefing. TESS is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. The satellite will survey the nearest and brightest stars for two years to search for transiting exoplanets. TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 16.

Pete Hasbrook, associate program scientist for the International Space Station Program, speaks to members of social media in the Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for launch from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A on Aug. 14 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the company's 12th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

Tom Neumann, ICESat-2 deputy project scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, speaks to members of the news media and social media participants during a prelaunch mission briefing for NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), a mission to measure the changing height of Earth's ice, on Sept. 13, 2018 at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California. ICESat-2 will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II, the rockets final mission, from Space Launch Complex 2 at VAFB. Launch is scheduled for 8:46 a.m. EDT (5:46 a.m. PDT).

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames. Reed is seen here (sitting, right) at the hyperwall-2 with Steve Hipskind, Chief, NASAs Earth Science Division (left).

LADEE them member Richard Elpic, Project Scientist

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - SCIENCE DAY 2004

Roger Clark, team member, Cassini spacecraft Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer and co-investigator, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, U.S. Geological Survey in Denver answers questions on NASAs discovery of water molecules in the polar regions of the moon at a press conference at NASA Headquarters, September 24, 2009, in Washington.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

Astrobiology Conference 2002

Eric Ianson speaks during a media briefing to discuss the upcoming Orbiting Carbon Observatory mission, the first NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERNCE MOTIGATING VOLCANIC ASH HAZARDS TO AVIATION

Foton-M2 and Foton-M3 Mission description and summary of science results presented by Mike Skidmore The Foton-M3 spacecraft launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) on Sept 14, 2007 and landed 12 days later approximately 130km south of Kustanay, Northern Kazakhstan. The Foton-me flight, following the 16-day Foto-M2 spaceflight (june 2005), represented a uique opportunity to re-fly and improve the Foton-M2 experiments. For Foton-Me, important improvements were made in hardware, experimental design and operational logistics.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERNCE MOTIGATING VOLCANIC ASH HAZARDS TO AVIATION

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

In the Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium, Pete Hasbrook, NASA associate program scientist for the ISS Program at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, speaks to members of the media at a prelaunch news conference for Orbital ATK CRS-6 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station.

Inaugural NASA Climate Summit Opening Remarks. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson delivers opening remarks during the inaugural NASA Climate Summit Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Steve Volz, associate director for flight programs, Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, briefs media representatives in Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium in preparation for the launch of the SpaceX CRS-4 mission to resupply the International Space Station. Volz is a member of the ISS Earth Science: Tracking Ocean Winds Panel.The mission is the fourth of 12 SpaceX flights NASA contracted with the company to resupply the space station. It will be the fifth trip by a Dragon spacecraft to the orbiting laboratory. The spacecrafts 2.5 tons of supplies, science experiments, and technology demonstrations include critical materials to support 255 science and research investigations that will occur during the station's Expeditions 41 and 42. Liftoff is targeted for an instantaneous window at 2:14 a.m. EDT.

Charlie Duke, former Apollo 16 astronaut and member of the Apollo 1 Emergency Egress Investigation Team, speaks to participants during the Apollo 1 Lessons Learned presentation in the Training Auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The program's theme was "To There and Back Again." Other guest panelists included Ernie Reyes, retired, Apollo 1 senior operations engineer; and John Tribe, retired, Apollo 1 Reaction and Control System lead engineer. The event helped pay tribute to the Apollo 1 crew, Gus Grissom, Ed White II, and Roger Chaffee.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Mark Trail Reception

Eric Lindstrom, left, Aquarius Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters, talks about NASA's Aquarius/SAC-D mission to study the salinity of Earth's oceans from space on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The mission is a collaboration between NASA and Argentina's space agency Comision Nacional de Actividades Especiales (CONAE), with participation from Brazil, Canada, France and Italy. The Aquarius/SAC-D observatory will launch June 9, 2011 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Dr. David H. Grinspoon, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, speaks about working on NASA's Voyager team while serving as moderator for a panel discussion at the "NASA's New Horizons Pluto Mission: Continuing Voyager's Legacy of Exploration" event on Monday, August, 25, 2014, in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. The panelists gave their accounts of Voyager's encounter with Neptune and discussed their current assignments on NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto.

S103-E-5015 (20 December 1999) --- Astronaut Claude Nicollier, mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA), shares space with STS-103 crew mates on Discovery's flight deck. The astronauts spent a portion of flight day 1 preparing for the upcoming rendezvous and docking with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The photo was recorded with an electronic still camera (ESC)at 16:21:22 GMT, December 20, 1999.

Dr. John Spencer, senior scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, speaks during a panel discussion at the "NASA's New Horizons Pluto Mission: Continuing Voyager's Legacy of Exploration" event on Monday, August, 25, 2014, in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. The panelists gave their accounts of Voyager's encounter with Neptune and discussed their current assignments on NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto.

Kepler Project Team member Michael Haas

Angelo Vourlidas, project scientist, Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation, at the Naval Research Laboratory makes a comment during a Science Update on the STEREO mission at NASA Headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2009.

Dean Pesnell, SDO project scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. speaks during a briefing to discuss recent images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at the Newseum in Washington.

Cassini program manager at JPL, Earl Maize is seen during a press conference previewing Cassini's End of Mission, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Since its arrival in 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission has been a discovery machine, revolutionizing our knowledge of the Saturn system and captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity. On Sept. 15, 2017, operators will deliberately plunge the spacecraft into Saturn, as Cassini gathered science until the end. The plunge” ensures Saturn’s moons will remain pristine for future exploration. During Cassini’s final days, mission team members from all around the world gathered at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to celebrate the achievements of this historic mission.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Michael Curie, NASA Public Affairs, moderates a post-launch media briefing following the successful launch of NASA's SpaceX CRS-4 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 1:52 a.m. EDT.The mission is the fourth of 12 SpaceX flights NASA contracted with the company to resupply the space station. It will be the fifth trip by a Dragon spacecraft to the orbiting laboratory. The spacecrafts 2.5 tons of supplies, science experiments, and technology demonstrations include critical materials to support 255 science and research investigations that will occur during the station's Expeditions 41 and 42.

Dr, Michael Meyer, NASA Mars lead scientist, talks during a Mars Program Update where prominent scientists discussed evidence of water on Mars, current Program status, including the 7th Anniversary of the Mars rovers and the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory mission and previewing exciting discoveries to come, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

Mars Science Laboratory Press Conference

STS-132 Press Conference. Photo Date: May 3, 2010. Location: Building 2N, Press Conference Room.

Eric Lindstrom, left, Aquarius Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters, talks about NASA's Aquarius/SAC-D mission to study the salinity of Earth's oceans from space on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The mission is a collaboration between NASA and Argentina's space agency Comision Nacional de Actividades Especiales (CONAE), with participation from Brazil, Canada, France and Italy. The Aquarius/SAC-D observatory will launch June 9, 2011 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Media attending a post-launch news conference at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. heard from Michael Freilich, director of the Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate at Headquarters. The Landsat Data Continuity Mission LDCM is the future of Landsat satellites. It will continue to obtain valuable data and imagery to be used in agriculture, education, business, science, and government. The Landsat Program provides repetitive acquisition of high resolution multispectral data of the Earth's surface on a global basis. The data from the Landsat spacecraft constitute the longest record of the Earth's continental surfaces as seen from space. It is a record unmatched in quality, detail, coverage, and value. Liftoff took place at 10 02 a.m. PST 1 02 P.M. EST) on Feb. 11, 2013 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Jim Free, associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, participates in a press conference on Aug. 29, 2022, at the agencys NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, after waving-off of the launch of the Artemis I mission. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.

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In the Press Site auditorium at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Bill Barry, NASA's chief historian, speaks to members of the media during a a news conference with key individuals involved in the upcoming motion picture "Hidden Figures." The movie is based on the book of the same title, by Margot Lee Shetterly. It chronicles the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, three African-American women who worked for NASA as human "computers. Their mathematical calculations were crucial to the success of Project Mercury missions including John Glenn’s orbital flight aboard Friendship 7 in 1962. The film is due in theaters in January 2017.

Andrew Klesh, a Mission Architect at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory is seen during a keynote titled “MarCO: Flight Results from the First Interplanetary CubeSat Mission” at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington.

Cassini imaging science subsystem (ISS) team associate Mike Evans speaks with Cassini NASA Social attendees, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Since its arrival in 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission has been a discovery machine, revolutionizing our knowledge of the Saturn system and captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity. On Sept. 15, 2017, operators will deliberately plunge the spacecraft into Saturn, as Cassini gathered science until the end. The plunge” ensures Saturn’s moons will remain pristine for future exploration. During Cassini’s final days, mission team members from all around the world gathered at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to celebrate the achievements of this historic mission.

Torsten Neubert of the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark, and principal investigator for the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, discusses how this Earth observatory will study severe thunderstorms and their role in the Earth's atmosphere and climate. This is one of the scientific investigations that will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 4:30 p.m. EST, on April 2, 2018. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 14th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - SCIENCE DAY 2004

VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. -- NASA and contractor officials discussed NASA's readiness to launch the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, or LDCM, during a prelaunch news conference at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Participants included NASA Launch Director Omar Baez from Kennedy Space Center. The Landsat Data Continuity Mission LDCM is the future of Landsat satellites. It will continue to obtain valuable data and imagery to be used in agriculture, education, business, science, and government. The Landsat Program provides repetitive acquisition of high resolution multispectral data of the Earth's surface on a global basis. The data from the Landsat spacecraft constitute the longest record of the Earth's continental surfaces as seen from space. It is a record unmatched in quality, detail, coverage, and value. Liftoff is planned for Feb. 11, 2013 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

Directors Colloquium Dr Charles Beichman, NExSci Caltech/JPL presents 'Using JWST's Near-IR Camera to observe the Universe from 10 AU to Z 10'.

Madrid, 11/17/2015. Interview with James Green, director of NASA's planetary science division. Photo: Ignacio Gil ARCHDC.

New Horizons mission systems engineer Chris Hersman of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is seen during a press conference after the team received confirmation from the New Horizons spacecraft that it has completed the flyby of Ultima Thule, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

Dr. Seth Shostak, of the SETI Institute presents a Director's Colloquium at NASA Ames entitled 'When Will We Discover the Extraterrestrails '

Dr. John Spencer, senior scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, answers a question from the audience during a panel discussion at the "NASA's New Horizons Pluto Mission: Continuing Voyager's Legacy of Exploration" event on Monday, August, 25, 2014, in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. The panelists gave their accounts of Voyager's encounter with Neptune and discussed their current assignments on NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto.

PHOTO DATE: 02-04-11LOCATION: Bldg 2SUBJECT: STS-134 press conference with Mark Kelly making announcement he is resuming his training for STS-134.

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Bob O'Connell, chair of the science oversight committee for the NASA Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 at the University of Virginia discusses newly released images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The images were from four of the telescopes' six operating science instruments.

Dr. Edward Kelly, with the University of Washington School of Pharmacy, discusses The Tissue Chips in Space project during a Whats On Board science briefing to NASA Social participants at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 29, 2019. The briefing was held for SpaceXs 17th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-17) mission to the International Space Station. Kelly and other researchers will send kidney tissue chip models to the space station to understand how microgravity affects kidney function, such as changes in vitamin D metabolism and formation of kidney stones. NASAs Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) and Space Test Program-Houston 6 (STP-H6) are two of the experiments that also will be delivered to the space station on CRS-17. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo module are scheduled to launch no earlier than May 3, 2019, from Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

RODNEY GRUBBS, PROGRAM MANAGER FOR NASA'S IMAGERY EXPERTS PROGRAM AT THE MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, DISPLAYS THE 3-D CAMERA THAT WAS RETURNED FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. THE MONITOR BEHIND HIM SHOWS THE 3-D VIDEO THAT WILL NEED SPECIAL GLASSES TO VIEW CORRECTLY.

Jason Craig, Visualization Manager, NASA JPL, talks about Mars InSight online visualization tools during a social media briefing, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core. InSight is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet at approximately noon PST (3 p.m. EST) on Nov. 26.

Dr. Humberto Campins from the University of Central Florida speaks to Kennedy Space Center employees in the Florida spaceports Neil Armstrong O&C Mission Briefing Room on April 16, 2019, to give a status update on NASAs Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx). The first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, OSIRIS-REx launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sept. 8, 2016 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Management of the launch service for OSIRIS-REx was the responsibility of NASAs Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy.

Dr Chris McKay presents a Director's Colloquium to Ames staff and summer interns on 'Missions to Investigate the Polar Ice of Mars Phoenix and Beyond'

PHOTO DATE: 05-14-10LOCATION: Bldg. 30 south - WFCRSUBJECT: STS-132/ULF4 WFCR Flight Controllers on Console During Launch with Flight Director Richard Jones

Bruce Banerdt, InSight Principal Investigator, NASA JPL, talks about Mars exploration during a Mars celebration Sunday, June 2, 2019, in Mars, Pennsylvania. NASA is in the small town to celebrate Mars exploration and share the agencys excitement about landing astronauts on the Moon in five years. The celebration includes a weekend of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) activities.

The inaugural Glenn Symposium focused on advancements in aerospace technology including power and propulsion, autonomy and communications, low boom supersonics, hypersonics, and more. Discussion also encompassed humans returning to the moon, including challenges associated with the 2024 mission.

Phil Morton, NASA GRACE-FO project manager at JPL, discusses the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission during a prelaunch media briefing, Monday, May 21, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The twin GRACE-FO spacecraft will measure changes in how mass is redistributed within and among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land and ice sheets, as well as within Earth itself.

Dr. David Morrison being interviewed by Space News regarding the Lunar Science Institute at the NASA Research Park.

New Horizons deputy project scientist John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, CO discusses what they hope to learn from the flyby of Ultima Thule, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018 at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

Dr Bernard Bigot, Chairman of the French Atomic Energy Commission India Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox -

Media Invited to Rare View of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors

James Marr, NASA JPL presents a Director's Colloquium to Ames staff on 'The SIM-lite Mission Concept Detecting Earth-like Planets around Nearby Stars'

Dr Chris McKay presents a Director's Colloquium to Ames staff and summer interns on 'Missions to Investigate the Polar Ice of Mars Phoenix and Beyond'

Olivier Barnouin (US Instrument Scientist, Johns Hopkins University/APL) discusses the OSIRIS-REx mission, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018 at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

Prasun Desai, acting director, Strategic Integration, NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, speaks at a public event at NASA Headquarters observing the first anniversary of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars, Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 in Washington. The Mars Science Laboratory mission successfully placed the one-ton Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, about 1 mile from the center of its 12-mile-long target area. Within the first eight months of a planned 23-months primary mission, Curiosity met its major science objective of finding evidence of a past environment well-suited to support microbial life.

PHOTO DATE: 07-07-10LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - below FFT MockupSUBJECT: Expedition 25/26 Vehicle Approach Skills training with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri in building 9NW by the FFT mockup with instructor Katrina Willoughby.WORK ORDER: 02002-BS__EXP2526B9W-07-07-10

Ralf Zimmerman, head of Moon programs and Orion European Service Module, Airbus,participates in a prelaunch media briefing on the role of industry in advancing human exploration on Aug. 26, 2022, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as the agency prepares for launch of Artemis I scheduled for Aug. 29, at 8:33 a.m. EDT from Kennedys Launch Complex 39B. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.

The inaugural Glenn Symposium focused on advancements in aerospace technology including power and propulsion, autonomy and communications, low boom supersonics, hypersonics, and more. Discussion also encompassed humans returning to the moon, including challenges associated with the 2024 mission.

Kennedy Space Centers Tim Bass speaks at the third in a series of five TED Talk-style informational sessions on Oct. 17, 2019, in the Florida spaceports Kennedy Learning Institute. Sponsored by Kennedys Launching Leaders and Leadership for the Future, NASAtalks focuses on the topic of intentional careers and aims to provide employees with tools and knowledge that can be utilized for career growth. The theme of this third session was customers, and additional speakers included Kennedy employees Ryan Richards, Mike Williams and Dave Grau.

Psyche Mission and Science Briefing. Ben Weiss, Psyche deputy principal investigator and magnetometer lead, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, participates in a Psyche mission and science briefing at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Psyche is the first mission to explore an asteroid with a surface that likely contains substantial amounts of metal rather than rock or ice. Liftoff of NASAs Psyche spacecraft, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, is targeted for 10:16 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A.

A.J. Sandora, Lockheed Martin's GOES-R Series Mechanical Operations Assembly, Test and Launch Operations (ATLO) manager, speaks to members of social media in the Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's, or NOAA's, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. Built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Littleton, Colorado, the spacecraft is the second satellite in a series of next-generation NOAA weather satellites. It will launch to a geostationary position over the U.S. to provide images of storms and help predict weather forecasts, severe weather outlooks, watches, warnings, lightning conditions and longer-term forecasting. GOES-S is slated to lift off at 5:02 p.m. EST on March 1, 2018 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Astrobiology Conference 2002

Dr. Jonathan Lunine, Director, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Co-Chair of the Former Committee on Human Spaceflight, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine testifies during the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics hearing titled "Keeping our sights on Mars: A Review of NASA's Deep Space Exploration Programs and Lunar Proposal", Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington.

Prof. Xavier Girerd, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, endocrinology-metabolism department, Paris 13th.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist with Hayden Planetarium, the American Museum of Natural History, visits the Ames Kepler Science Team during the 1000 days since Launch Review.

NASA Officials gather at Ames Research Center to discuss Spaceship development progress. Constellation is developing the Orion spacecraft and Ares rockets to support an American return to the moon by 2020. Speaker; Skip Hatfield, JSC Orion Project Manager

Former NASA Administrator James Beggs smiles during a dialogue on the future of the space program, Friday, March 4, 2011, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Beggs was NASA's sixth administrator serving from July 1981 to December 1985. The dialogue was part of the program The State of the Agency: NASA Future Programs Presentation” sponsored by the NASA Alumni League with support from the AAS, AIAA, CSE and WIA.

ESA (European Space Agency) Cassini project scientist, Nicolas Altobelli answers a question from the media during a press conference held after the end of the Cassini mission, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Since its arrival in 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission has been a discovery machine, revolutionizing our knowledge of the Saturn system and captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity. On Sept. 15, 2017, operators deliberately plunged the spacecraft into Saturn, as Cassini gathered science until the end. Loss of contact with the Cassini spacecraft occurred at 7:55 a.m. EDT (4:55 a.m. PDT). The plunge” ensures Saturn’s moons will remain pristine for future exploration. During Cassini’s final days, mission team members from all around the world gathered at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to celebrate the achievements of this historic mission.

Media Invited to Rare View of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors

Apollo 11 astronaut Mike Collins talks about his mission during NASA’s Giant Leaps: Past and Future," a live television program on Friday, July 19, 2019 from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. NASA and the world are recognizing the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, in which astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin crewed the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon.

Kevin Rohrer, Chief of Strategic Communication at NASAs Armstrong Flight Research Center

In the Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium, Kirt Costello, deputy chief scientist for the International Space Station Program Science Office at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-13 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson visited with Goddard's Space Flight Center Director Chris Scolese and the James Webb Space Telescope team at Goddard in Greenbelt, Md. on June 3, 2014.Tyson spoke to the team and was able to see the giant vacuum test chamber that now holds the heart of the telescope, the Integrated Science Instrument Module.Learn more about JWST: http://www.jwst.nasa.gov

Dr. Timothy Lyons, Professor of Biogeochemistry, UC Riverside, speaks on a panel at the Ancient Earth, Alien Earths” Event at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC Wednesday, August 20, 2014. The event was sponsored by NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Smithsonian Institution and was moderated by Dr. David H. Grinspoon, Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. Six scientists discussed how research on early Earth could help guide our search for habitable planets orbiting other stars.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is introduced during a Crew-4 press briefing April 26, 2022, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the agencys SpaceX Crew-4 launch. NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, and Jessica Watson, along with ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, will launch aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon, named Freedom by the Crew-4 crew, atop the companys Falcon 9 rocket on April 27, 2022, to the International Space Station. Launch is targeted for 3:52 a.m. EDT from Pad 39A.

Guenther Hasinger, director of science, European Space Agency, participates in a Solar Orbiter science press conference at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 7, 2020. Solar Orbiter is an international cooperative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA. The mission aims to study the Sun, its outer atmosphere and solar wind. The spacecraft will provide the first images of the Suns poles. The spacecraft was developed by Airbus Defence and Space. NASAs Launch Services Program based at Kennedy is managing the launch. Solar Orbiter will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Feb. 9, 2020, from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Artemis I Post Launch News Conference. Mike Bolger, Exploration Ground Systems Program manager, Kennedy, participates in a postlaunch news conference on Nov. 16, 2022, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, after launch of Artemis I at 1:47 a.m. EST from Kennedys Launch Complex 39B. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.

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NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier is seen during a NASA town hall on the amendment to the fiscal year 2020 budget request that supports the agencys plan to land astronauts on the Moon by 2024, Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.

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