NASA Press Briefings

Images from NASA press briefings featuring various professionals discussing ongoing missions, surrounded by a media audience in a modern auditorium setting.

In the Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium, Kirk Shireman, International Space Station Program manager at Johnson, participates by video link speaking 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.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - From left, NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and U.S. Senator Bill Nelson participate in an event in Kennedy's Operations and Checkout Building high bay marking the arrival of NASA's first space-bound Orion capsule in Florida.Slated for Exploration Flight Test-1, an uncrewed mission planned for 2014, the capsule will travel farther into space than any human spacecraft has gone in more than 40 years. The capsule was shipped to Kennedy from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans where the crew module pressure vessel was built. The Orion production team will prepare the module for flight at Kennedy by installing heat-shielding thermal protection systems, avionics and other subsystems.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Bob Cabana, director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center and a former astronaut, kicks off the center's Innovation Expo in the Operations Support Building II. The center-wide event gave researchers a chance to show some of their work to others at the center and gave employees the opportunity to see facilities they hadn't viewed before.

Paula do Vale Pereira, BeaverCube, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,participates in a climate conversation at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 13, 2022, leading up to SpaceXs 25th Commercial Resupply Services mission for NASA to the International Space Station. The Dragon capsule atop SpaceXs Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A on July 14 at 8:44 p.m. EDT. Dragon will deliver more than 5,800 pounds of cargo, including a variety of NASA investigations, to the space station.

Training sessions on November 30 included "Intro to Reverse Engineering" instructed by Jeremy Hawthorne, lead instructor for the Boston Cybernetics Institute (BCI) where he develops training for the U.S. military.

Derrick Matthews, moderator with NASA Communications, concludes 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. 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.

Hans Koenigsmann, vice president, Build and Flight Reliability, SpaceX, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference with NASA, SpaceX and the 45th Weather Squadron leaders Thursday, Feb. 28, prior to the Saturday, March 2 launch of the SpaceX Demo-1 Commercial Crew Program (CCP) mission to the International Space Station. The inaugural flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon, known as Demo-1, is scheduled to lift off from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A Saturday at 2:49 EST. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the uncrewed spacecraft on a mission designed to validate end-to-end systems and capabilities, leading to certification to fly crew. NASA has worked with SpaceX and Boeing in developing the Commercial Crew Program spacecraft to facilitate new human spaceflight systems launching from U.S. soil with the goal of safe, reliable and cost-effective access to low-Earth orbit destinations, such as the International Space Station.

At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Tori McLendon, speaks to members of the media at a prelaunch news conference for the Joint Polar Satellite System-1, or JPSS-1. Built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, JPSS is the first in a series four next-generation environmental satellites in a collaborative program between the NOAA and NASA. Liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is scheduled to take place from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex 2 at 1:47 a.m. PST (4:47 a.m. EST), on Nov. 14, 2017.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX Vice President of Mission Assurance Hans Koenigsmann participates in a SpaceX-3 post-launch news conference in the NASA Press Site television auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.SpaceX-3 launched at 3:25 p.m. EDT aboard a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon capsule from Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Dragon is making its fourth trip to the space station. The SpaceX-3 mission, carrying almost 2.5 tons of supplies, technology and science experiments, is the third of 12 flights through a $1.6 billion NASA Commercial Resupply Services contract. Dragon's cargo will support more than 150 experiments that will be conducted during the station's Expeditions 39 and 40.

In the Press Site auditorium of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Vern Thorp, United Space Alliance's program manager for NASA missions, speaks to members of the news media at a post-launch news conference following the liftoff of Orbital ATK CRS-6, a commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station, or ISS. The Cygnus spacecraft lifted off atop an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:05 p.m. EDT.

Kathy Lueders, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, participates in a Flight Readiness Review for the agencys SpaceX Crew-4 mission at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 15, 2022. International partners also participated. NASA and SpaceX mission managers held the review to confirm the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft are ready for launch. Crew-4 is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A on April 23, 2022, as part of NASAs Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft is targeted for 5:26 a.m. EDT.

Microsoft and NASA Space Education Day. NASA Associate Administrator for the STEM Engagement Office, Mike Kincaid, provides remarks during Space Education Day, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at the Microsoft Technology Center in Arlington, Va. Microsoft hosted the event to showcase the collaboration, early successes, and future plans for high quality student engagement through activities that combined space content and technologies like artificial intelligence and cloud computing.

Joseph Hamilton of NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston, speaks about the Space Debris Sensor with 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 liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Sen. Bill Nelson, left, answers a question as former Vice President Al Gore looks on during a visit with news media at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida prior to the planned liftoff of NOAAs Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR. DSCOVR will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The mission is a partnership between NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force. DSCOVR will maintain the nation's real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of NOAA's space weather alerts and forecasts.

A Nova Labs Robotics "BrainStorm Troopers" team member from Reston, Virginia asks a question during an Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) announcement, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Nine companies will be able to bid on delivering science and technology payloads for NASA, including payload integration and operations, launching from Earth and landing on the surface of the Moon. NASA expects to be one of many customers that will use these commercial landing services.

Joel Montalbano, manager, NASAs International Space Station Program, participates in a post-launch news conference following the liftoff of NASA Boeings Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) on May 19, 2022. Liftoff occurred at 6:54 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Floridas Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Boeings uncrewed flight test is designed to test the systems end-to-end capabilities for NASAs Commercial Crew Program providing valuable data towards NASA certifying Boeings crew transportation system for regular crewed flights to and from the International Space Station.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and Tory Bruno, president and chief executive officer of United Launch Alliance, wait at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida to see the liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying Boeings CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for Boeings Orbital Flight Test, Dec. 20, 2019. Liftoff occurred at 6:36 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 41 at Floridas Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The uncrewed Orbital Flight Test is the Starliners first flight for NASAs Commercial Crew Program.

Cesar Garcia, Solar Orbiter Project manager, European Space Agency, participates in a prelaunch news conference for the Solar Orbiter mission 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.

In the Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium, Joel Montalbano, deputy International Space Station program manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of Build and Flight Reliability for SpaceX, speak to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-16 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. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 16th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

During a "Powering Exploration Mission-1" ceremony in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 16, 2018, Mark Kirasich, left, Orion Program manager at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston; and Sue Motil, Orion European Service Module integration manager at the agency's Glenn Research Center, answer questions. The event was held to mark a major milestone, the arrival of the European Service Module (ESM) for Orion's Exploration Mission-1. The service module, built by the European Space Agency, will supply the main propulsion system and power to the Orion spacecraft during EM-1, a mission to the Moon. The ESM also will house air and water for astronauts on future missions. EM-1 will be an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration to destinations beyond Earth orbit. EM-1 will be the first integrated test of NASA's Space Launch System, Orion and the ground systems at Kennedy.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Members of the media gather for a post-launch news conference held in the Press Site auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the successful launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-135 mission to the International Space Station. Atlantis began its final flight at 11:29 a.m. EDT on July 8. STS-135 will deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts for the International Space Station. Atlantis also will fly the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment that will investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing satellites in orbit. In addition, Atlantis will return with a failed ammonia pump module to help NASA better understand the failure mechanism and improve pump designs for future systems. STS-135 will be the 33rd flight of Atlantis, the 37th shuttle mission to the space station, and the 135th and final mission of NASA's Space Shuttle Program.

In the Press Site auditorium of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Dan Hartman, NASA deputy manager of the International Space Station Program, speaks to media at a post-launch news conference following the liftoff of SpaceX CRS-12, a commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX CRS-12 lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy's Launch Complex 39A at 12:31 p.m. EDT.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility-3 (OPF-3) at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, speaks to the media following the ceremony which announced the signing of an innovative agreement between NASA and Space Florida. NASA announced a partnership with Space Florida to occupy, use and modify Kennedy Space Center's Orbiter Processing Facility-3 (OPF-3), the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility and Processing Control Center. Space Florida has an agreement for use of the OPF-3 with the Boeing Company to manufacture and test the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST-100) spacecraft. The 15-year use permit deal is the latest step Kennedy is making as the center transitions from a historically government-only launch complex to a multi-user spaceport.

jsc2019e052157 - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 61 backup crewmembers Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos (left), Tom Marshburn of NASA (center) and Sultan Al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates (right) answer reporters questions Sept. 5 as part of a pre-flight news conference. They are the backups to the prime crewmembers, Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, Jessica Meir of NASA and Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates, who will launch Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft for a mission on the International Space Station...

Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington, 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 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.

Yasaman Shirazi, mission scientist at NASAs Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, speaks on an investigation testing drug delivery systems for combatting muscle breakdown in microgravity with 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 liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

Kathy Lueders, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA, participates in a postlaunch news conference following the liftoff of NASA Boeings Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) on May 19, 2022. Liftoff occurred at 6:54 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Floridas Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Boeings uncrewed flight test is designed to test the systems end-to-end capabilities for NASAs Commercial Crew Program providing valuable data towards NASA certifying Boeings crew transportation system for regular crewed flights to and from the International Space Station.

Activities at the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) International User Conference in San Diego, California, where Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joined ESRI President Jack Dangermond among the featured speakers. Secretary Kempthorne announced his instruction--hailed by ESRI's Dangermond--to the U.S. Geological Survey to make its 35-year Landsat satellite image archive available over the Internet for free.

Junichi Sakai, manager, International Space Station Program, JAXA, participates in the SpaceX Crew-2 prelaunch news conference held at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 20, 2021. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and  Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly on Crew-2, the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of NASAs Commercial Crew Program. They will launch aboard SpaceXs Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, powered by the companys Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, at 6:11 a.m. EDT.

President and founder of Bigelow Aerospace Robert T. Bigelow, talks during a media briefing where he and NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver discussed their $17.8 million contract to provide a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) to the International Space Station to test expandable space habitat technology, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 at Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas. BEAM is scheduled to arrive at the space station in 2015 for a two-year technology demonstration.

Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders participates in a news briefing inside the Press Site auditorium at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 22, 2020, following the conclusion of the flight readiness review for NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission, with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, to the International Space Station. This will be SpaceXs final flight test for NASAs Commercial Crew Program. Behnken and Hurley will fly to the orbiting laboratory in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, launching atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A. Liftoff is scheduled for 4:33 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27.

Janet Petro, director, NASAs Kennedy Space Center, participates in the NASA Leadership Briefing ahead of the agencys Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022. Boeings CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for NASAs Commercial Crew Program.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At a news conference, NASA and United Launch Alliance officials discussed preparations for the planned launch of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K, atop an Atlas V rocket. Among those participating in the briefing is Tim Dunn, NASA launch director at the Kennedy Space Center. Liftoff for the TDRS-K is planned for Jan. 30, 2013. The TDRS-K spacecraft is part of the next-generation series in the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, a constellation of space-based communication satellites providing tracking, telemetry, command and high-bandwidth data return services.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, STS-122 Pilot Alan Poindexter heads for the plane for the return trip to Houston. The crew is flying back to Houston after launch of space shuttle Atlantis was delayed when a failure occurred in a fuel sensor system while the vehicle's external fuel tank was being filled. One of the four engine cutoff, or ECO, sensors inside the liquid hydrogen section of the tank gave a false reading and NASA's current Launch Commit Criteria require that all four sensors function properly. The sensor system is one of several that protect the shuttle's main engines by triggering their shut down if fuel runs unexpectedly low. Space shuttle Atlantis' STS-122 mission now is targeted to launch no earlier than Jan. 2. The liftoff date depends on the resolution of the problem in the fuel sensor system.

. jsc2023e017089 (April 3, 2023) - NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, are announced as members of the Artemis II crew that will travel around the Moon during a Monday, April 3, 2023, crew announcement news conference at Ellington Field near NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston. The crew is comprised of Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen. The four astronauts will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASAs path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis.

Elaine Horn-Ranney, principal investigator for Tympanogen, Inc., speaks to members of the 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 liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 16th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Media attending a pre-launch news conference at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. heard from Michael Roberts, research scientist with the Center for Advancement of Science in Space. Scheduled for launch March 1 atop a Falcon 9 rocket, the SpaceX Dragon capsule will be making its third trip to the space station. The mission is the second of 12 SpaceX flights contracted by NASA to resupply the orbiting laboratory.

Dr. Stephen Hawking, a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, delivers a speech entitled "Why we should go into space" during a lecture that is part of a series honoring NASA's 50th Anniversary, Monday, April 21, 2008, at George Washington University's Morton Auditorium in Washington.

Kennedy Space Center director Janet Petro, delivers remarks during a press conference ahead of the launch of Boeings Starliner spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Boeings Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliners second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for launch on 6:54 p.m. ET on May 19, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities.

Tim Dunn, launch director for NASAs Launch Services Program, participates in a Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich virtual media briefing from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 16, 2020. Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is scheduled to launch on Nov. 10, 2020, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Station. NASAs Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.

SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk answers a question from the press in front of the Crew Dragon that is being prepared for the Demo-2 mission, at SpaceX Headquarters, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 in Hawthorne, CA.

Dana Weigel, deputy manager, International Space Station Program, participates in a prelaunch briefing for NASAs uncrewed Boeing Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida, May 17, 2022. Boeings CST-100 Starliner is targeted to launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station.

NASA Public Affairs Specialist Kristi Irastorza, left, and NASAs Launch Services Program (LSP) Chief of Flight Projects Office Albert Sierra, participate in a “Mars 2020 Social Media Q&A: En Español” program on Wednesday, July 22, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The event featured representatives from LSP and NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Mars Perseverance rover is scheduled to lift off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Stations Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, July 30. The two-hour window opens at 7:50 a.m. EDT. LSP, based at Kennedy, is managing the launch.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium, Ron Fortson, United Launch Alliance director of mission management, was among agency and industry leaders who spoke to members of the news media as the Orion spacecraft and its Delta IV Heavy rocket were being prepared for launch.Orion is the exploration spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to destinations not yet explored by humans, including an asteroid and Mars. It will have emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space travel and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities. The first unpiloted flight test of Orion is scheduled to launch Dec. 4, 2014 atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket, and in 2018 on NASAs Space Launch System rocket.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Roy Tharpe, president of Space Gateway Support, speaks to about 45 of NASAs social media followers for two days of presentations on the Kennedy Space Center's past, present and future.The social media participants gathered at the Florida spaceport on Aug. 2 and 3, 2012 to hear from key former and current leaders who related stories of the space agency's efforts to explore the unknown. It was the first social media event totally run by Kennedy.

Amber Jacobson of the NASA TDRS Social Media Team speaks to members of social media in the Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on preparations to launch NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-M. The latest spacecraft destined for the agency's constellation of communications satellites, TDRS-M will allow nearly continuous contact with orbiting spacecraft ranging from the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope to the array of scientific observatories. Liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to take place from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:03 a.m. EDT Aug. 18.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Prior to the arrival of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, to the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, European Space Agency Director of Human Spaceflight, Simonetta Di Pippo addresses the media.AMS,a state-of-the-art particle physics detector, is designed to operate as an external module on the International Space Station. It will use the unique environment of space to study the universe and its origin by searching for dark matter. AMS will fly to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission targeted to launch Feb. 26, 2011.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 Final Launch Operations Rehearsal . Nicole Jordan, manager of the Spacecraft Office for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, monitors the countdown during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 mission with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev onboard, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, in firing room four of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the sixth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev are scheduled to launch at 1:45 a.m. EST on Feb. 27, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

220914-A-SV210-210ORLANDO, Fla. - Amit Kapadia, the Chief Engineer for Product Manager, Synthetic Environment at the Armys Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), speaks to local chief engineers and systems architects during PEO STRI Modernization Industry Day at the Tech Grove campus in Orlando, Fla., Sept. 14. The event, offered both virtually and in person, served as an opportunity for PEO STRI officials to engage with industry and address the vision, goals, challenges and benefits for a PEO STRI Modernization Enterprise Architecture. PEO STRI leads a skilled and diverse workforce and works with high-caliber Army partners to enhance operational readiness and support the Armys modernization efforts by fielding and sustaining the next generation of multi-domain operations testing, training, and information operations capabilities. (Official Army photo by Donnie W. Ryan)

Vice President Mike Pence waves before addressing NASA employees, Thursday, July 6, 2017, at the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Vice President thanked employees for advancing American leadership in space, before going on a tour of the center that highlighted the public-private partnerships at KSC, as both NASA and commercial companies prepare to launch American astronauts from the multi-user spaceport.

Artemis I Rollout for Launch. Artemis I Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson stands at her console in Firing Room 1 inside the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 4, 2022, as NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission roll out to Launch Pad 39B. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by launching Orion atop the SLS rocket, operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown. During the flight, Orion will launch atop the most powerful rocket in the world and fly farther than any human-rated spacecraft has ever flown, paving the way for human deep space exploration and demonstrating our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond.

President Barack Obama delivers a speech at the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Thursday, April 15, 2010. Obama visited Kennedy Space Center to deliver remarks on the bold new course the Administration is charting for NASA and the future of U.S. leadership in human space flight.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside the high bay of Kennedy Space Center's Operations and Checkout Building, Scott Wilson, NASA's Orion production manager at the Florida Spaceport, briefs members of the news media about progress in preparing Orion for its first flight. In the background, the Orion spacecraft is surrounded by a special pre-launch processing access fixture. Orion is the exploration spacecraft designed to carry crews to space beyond low Earth orbit. It will provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities. The first unpiloted test flight of the Orion is scheduled to launch in 2014 atop a Delta IV rocket and in 2017 on a Space Launch System rocket.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Flight Readiness Review (FRR). Managers with NASA and SpaceX, along with international partners, pose for a photo after completion of NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 Flight Readiness Review at Kennedy Space Center on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. The mission is targeted to lift off from the Florida spaceports Launch Complex 39A at 3:49 a.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov will fly to the International Space Station aboard SpaceXs Dragon spacecraft, powered by the companys Falcon 9 rocket.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 Postlaunch News Conference. Benji Reed, senior director of Human Spaceflight Programs at SpaceX, participates in a Crew-7 postlaunch news conference at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. Crew-7 crew members NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov launched aboard SpaceXs Dragon spacecraft from Kennedy at 3:27 a.m. EDT. They will dock to the orbiting laboratory at about 8:40 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 27.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 Launch. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, Bob Cabana, NASA associate administrator, center, and Kathy Lueders, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, right, monitor the countdown of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 mission with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev onboard, Thursday, March 2, 2023, in firing room four of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the first crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev launched at 12:34 a.m. EST on March 2, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

Kathy Lueders, NASA Commercial Crew Program, speaks during a prelaunch briefing for Boeings Orbital Flight Test at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Dec. 17, 2019. Boeings CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The uncrewed Orbital Flight Test will be the Starliners first flight to the International Space Station for NASAs Commercial Crew Program.

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Vernon Thorp, program manager, NASA missions, United Launch Alliance, Cape Canaveral, Fla., participates in the prelaunch news conference at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., for NASAs National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft.NPP represents a critical first step in building the next-generation of Earth-observing satellites. NPP will carry the first of the new sensors developed for this satellite fleet, now known as the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), to be launched in 2016. NPP is the bridge between NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites and the forthcoming series of JPSS satellites. The mission will test key technologies and instruments for the JPSS missions. NPP is targeted to launch Oct. 28 from Space Launch Complex-2 aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket.

Mark Tripp, center, monitors his console in Firing Room 1 in the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, during a terminal countdown demonstration for Exploration Mission 1, or EM-1, on Dec. 14, 2018. The launch will be the first integrated test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that will eventually take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit to destinations such as the Moon and Mars. The countdown demonstration was intended to validate the launch team's capability to perform an EM-1 countdown and respond to challenges put into the system for practice.

Vice President Mike Pence congratulates the NASA and SpaceX teams for a successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 mission with NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi onboard, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 mission is the first crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. Hopkins, Glover, Walker, and Noguchi launched at 7:27 p.m. EST, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 Preflight. Trip Healey, manager, Program Control & Integration for NASAs Commercial Crew Program, prepares to raise the SpaceX Crew-6 flag, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the sixth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev are scheduled to launch at 1:45 a.m. EST on Feb. 27 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

Hans Koenigsmann, vice president for build and flight reliability at SpaceX, monitors the countdown of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceXs crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conc

President Barack Obama delivers a speech at the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Thursday, April 15, 2010. Obama visited Kennedy Space Center to deliver remarks on the bold new course the Administration is charting for NASA and the future of U.S. leadership in human space flight.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Howard Hu, manager for the Orion System Performance and Analysis Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center, provides an overview of the Sensor Test for Orion Relnav Risk Mitigation, or STORRM, flight test that space shuttle Endeavour will perform on the last on-orbit day of the STS-134 mission. The overview took place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida where Endeavour is awaiting liftoff. During the mission, Endeavour will fly a dedicated maneuver to simulate an Orion rendezvous trajectory, while two Orion sensors collect visual- and laser-based relative navigation data. This will provide an unprecedented in-flight test opportunity for America's next-generation exploration spacecraft. STS-134 also will deliver the Express Logistics Carrier-3, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS), a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for the Dextre robotic helper to the space station. Endeavour was scheduled to launch at 3 47 p.m. on April 29, but that attempt wa

President Donald Trump steps on stage to give remarks inside the Vehicle Assembly Building following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceXs crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.

Vice President Mike Pence congratulates NASA and SpaceX teams inside the Vehicle Assembly Building following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceXs crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011

Artemis I Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson participates in the first joint integrated launch countdown simulation for Artemis I inside Firing Room 1 of the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 8, 2021. The training exercise involved engineers from Kennedy, Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, and Johnson Space Center in Houston coming together to rehearse all aspects of the launch countdown, from cryogenic loading - filling tanks in the Space Launch System (SLS) rockets core stage with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen - to liftoff. These simulations will help certify that the launch team is ready for Artemis I - the first test flight of SLS and Orion as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon.

NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana participates in the NASA Leadership Briefing ahead of the agencys Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) at NASAsKennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022. Boeings CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for NASAs Commercial Crew Program.

President Donald Trump speaks inside the Vehicle Assembly Building following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceXs crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 Launch. Emily Nelson, NASA's chief flight director, monitors the countdown of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 mission with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov onboard, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, in SpaceXs Launch and Landing Control Center in HangerX at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the first crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov launched at 3:27 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

Kathy Lueders, Associate Administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate speaks with Steve Stich, program manager for NASA's Commercial Crew Program as they monitor the countdown of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 mission with NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi onboard, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 mission is the first crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. Hopkins, Glover, Walker, and Noguchi are scheduled to launch at 7:27 p.m. EST, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

Jenny Devolites, AA-2 Crew Module manager, participates in a prelaunch news conference for NASAs Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) flight test at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 1, 2019. For AA-2, a test version of the Orion spacecraft attached to a fully functional Launch Abort System (LAS) will launch atop a Northrop Grumman provided booster on July 2, 2019, from Launch Pad 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. During AA-2, the booster will send the LAS and Orion to an altitude of 31,000 feet, traveling at more than 1,000 mph. The LAS three motors will work together to pull the crew module away from the booster and prepare it for splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. The flight test will prove that the abort system can pull crew to safety in the unlikely event of an emergency during ascent.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Media attending a pre-launch news conference at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. heard from Julie Robinson, NASA program scientist for the International Space Station. Scheduled for launch March 1 atop a Falcon 9 rocket, the SpaceX Dragon capsule will be making its third trip to the space station. The mission is the second of 12 SpaceX flights contracted by NASA to resupply the orbiting laboratory.

As part of the Flight Readiness Review for NASAs Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), NASA astronaut and commander of Boeings Crew Flight Test, Barry “Butch” Wilmore addresses NASA and Boeing managers inside the Operations Support Building II at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, May 11, 2022. Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19. The uncrewed flight test will be Starliners second flight for NASAs Commercial Crew Program.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - During a news conference at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, agency and contractor officials discussed preparations for the launch of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission. Participating in the briefing is Geoffrey Yoder, NASA deputy associate administrator of programs in the Science Mission Directorate.MAVEN is being prepared for its scheduled launch on Nov 18, 2013 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Positioned in an orbit above the Red Planet, MAVEN will study the upper atmosphere of Mars in unprecedented detail.

In the Press Site auditorium of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,Joel Montalbano, deputy manager, International Space Station Program manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, speaks to media at a post-launch news conference following the liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 4:30 p.m. EST. The flight is a commercial resupply services mission for NASA to the International Space Station. SpaceX CRS-14 lifted off atop the Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying supplies and equipment and new science experiments for technology research.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Prelaunch Mission Management Team Chair Mike Moses talks to media about proceeding with space shuttle Discovery's launch countdown. Lift off had been postponed to evaluate a controller that showed an irregular power drop in Discovery's No. 3 engine.Now scheduled to launch Nov. 4 at 3:29 p.m. EDT, Discovery and its STS-133 crew will deliver the Permanent Multipurpose Module, packed with supplies and critical spare parts, as well as Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid astronaut helper, to the orbiting laboratory.

President Donald Trump speaks inside the Vehicle Assembly Building following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceXs crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.

NASA and SpaceX managers and International partners gathered for a group photo at the conclusion of the SpaceX Crew-4 Flight Readiness Review at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 15, 2022. NASA and SpaceX mission managers held the review to confirm the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft are ready for launch. Crew-4 is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A on April 23, 2022, as part of NASAs Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft is targeted for 5:26 a.m. EDT.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine answers a question during a press conference ahead of the SpaceX Demo-1 mission, Friday, March 1, 2019 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-1 mission will be the first launch of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft and space system designed for humans as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for a 2:49am launch on March 2, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities.

Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications, participates in the NASA Leadership Briefing ahead of the agencys Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) at NASAsKennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022. Boeings CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for NASAs Commercial Crew Program.

Vice President Mike Pence addresses NASA employees, Thursday, July 6, 2017, at the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Vice President thanked employees for advancing American leadership in space, before going on a tour of the center that highlighted the public-private partnerships at KSC, as both NASA and commercial companies prepare to launch American astronauts from the multi-user spaceport.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 Crew Arrival for Prelaunch Activities. Junichi Sakai, manager of the International Space Station Program for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), delivers remarks after the arrival of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center ahead of the agencys SpaceX Crew-7 mission, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023, in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the seventh crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov are scheduled to launch at 3:49 a.m. EDT on August 25, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

Pierrik Vuilleumier, project manager, European Space Agency (ESA), participates in a prelaunch news conference for the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich mission at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Nov. 20, 2020. The Sentinel-6/Jason-CS (Continuity of Service) mission consists of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, which will be followed by its twin, the Sentinel-6B satellite, in 2025. The Sentinel-6/Jason-CS mission is part of Copernicus, the European Unions Earth observation program, managed by the European Commission. Continuing the legacy of the Jason series missions, Sentinel-6/Jason-CS will extend the records of sea level into their fourth decade, collecting accurate measurements of sea surface height for more than 90% of the worlds oceans, and providing crucial information for operational oceanography, marine meteorology, and climate studies. Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is scheduled to launch on Nov. 21, 2020, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenbergs Space Laun

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Former Kennedy Space Center Director Jay Honeycutt speaks to about 45 of NASAs social media followers for two days of presentations on the Kennedy Space Center's past, present and future.The social media participants gathered at the Florida spaceport on Aug. 2 and 3, 2012 to hear from key former and current leaders who related stories of the space agency's efforts to explore the unknown. It was the first social media event totally run by Kennedy.

At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Steve Volz, director of NOAAs Satellite and Information Service, speaks to members of the media at a prelaunch news conference for the Joint Polar Satellite System-1, or JPSS-1. Built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, JPSS is the first in a series four next-generation environmental satellites in a collaborative program between the NOAA and NASA. Liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is scheduled to take place from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex 2 at 1:47 a.m. PST (4:47 a.m. EST), on Nov. 14, 2017.

Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator, NASA Science Mission Directorate, 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.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - During a news conference at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, agency and contractor officials discussed preparations for the launch of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission. Participating in the briefing is Clay Flinn, launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.MAVEN is being prepared for its scheduled launch on Nov 18, 2013 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Positioned in an orbit above the Red Planet, MAVEN will study the upper atmosphere of Mars in unprecedented detail.

Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station Program, is introduced during the SpaceX Crew-2 prelaunch news conference held at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 20, 2021. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and  Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly on Crew-2, the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of NASAs Commercial Crew Program. They will launch aboard SpaceXs Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, powered by the companys Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, at 6:11 a.m. EDT.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 Postlaunch News Conference. Ken Bowersox, associate administrator of the Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, participates in a Crew-7 postlaunch news conference at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. Crew-7 crew members NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov launched aboard SpaceXs Dragon spacecraft from Kennedy at 3:27 a.m. EDT. They will dock to the orbiting laboratory at about 8:40 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 27.

Vice President Mike Pence addresses NASA employees, Thursday, July 6, 2017, at the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Vice President thanked employees for advancing American leadership in space, before going on a tour of the center that highlighted the public-private partnerships at KSC, as both NASA and commercial companies prepare to launch American astronauts from the multi-user spaceport.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 Crew Arrival for Prelaunch Activities. Eric van der Wal, lead of the International Space Station Program Houston Office for ESA (European Space Agency), delivers remarks after the arrival of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the agencys SpaceX Crew-7 mission, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the seventh crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov are scheduled to launch at 3:49 a.m. EDT on August 25, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

Kathy Lueders, manager of NASAs Commercial Crew Program, participates in a briefing at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida following the companys uncrewed In-Flight Abort Test on Jan. 19, 2020. During the flight test, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A and began a planned launch-abort sequence demonstrating the spacecrafts escape capabilities. The Crew Dragon splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean as expected. The In-Flight Abort Test is a critical milestone in preparation for crewed flights to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program.

Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana gives remarks as he and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine greet NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken after they arrived at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center ahead of SpaceXs Demo-2 mission, Wednesday, May 20, 2020, in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. The flight test will serve as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceXs crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley are scheduled to launch at 4:33 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.

. jsc2023e017914 (April 3, 2023) - NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen are announced as members of the Artemis II crew that will travel around the Moon during a Monday, April 3, 2023, crew announcement news conference at Ellington Field near NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston. The crew is comprised of Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen. The four astronauts will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASAs path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Media attending a pre-launch news conference at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. heard from Marshall Porterfield, division director of the Life and Physical Sciences at NASA Headquarters. Scheduled for launch March 1 atop a Falcon 9 rocket, the SpaceX Dragon capsule will be making its third trip to the space station. The mission is the second of 12 SpaceX flights contracted by NASA to resupply the orbiting laboratory.

Elon Musk, CEO and lead designer, SpaceX, participates in a postlaunch news conference for NASAs SpaceX Crew-2 mission on April 23, 2021, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff time on a Falcon 9 rocket was at 5:49 p.m. EDT. Crew Dragon Endeavour is carrying NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, spacecraft commander; NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, pilot; ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, mission specialist; and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, mission specialist, to the International Space Station. Crew-2 is the second regular crew mission of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the space station as part of NASAs Commercial Crew Program. Endeavour will dock with the station and the crew will remain on the orbiting laboratory for a six-month science mission.

In the Kennedy Space Center's Press Site auditorium, Tim Dunn, launch director at NASA Kennedy, speaks to members of the media at a prelaunch news conference for NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-M. It is the latest spacecraft destined for the agency's constellation of communications satellites that allows nearly continuous contact with orbiting spacecraft ranging from the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope to the array of scientific observatories. Liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to take place from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:03 a.m. EDT Aug. 18.

Artemis I Prelaunch. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson gives remarks ahead of the launch of NASAs Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft on the Artemis I flight test, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, from Operations and Support Building II at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs Artemis I flight test is the first integrated flight test of the agencys deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and ground systems.

Tory Bruno, CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA), attends the rollout of the ULA Atlas V 541 rocket, carrying NASAs Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter, as it rolls along to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on July 28, 2020. First motion was at 10:24 a.m. EDT. Launch of the Mars 2020 mission is scheduled for July 30. The rover is part of NASAs Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.

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