Milestones
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine named Douglas Loverro as the agency’s new associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. Loverro succeeds former astronaut Kenneth Bowersox, who has been acting associate administrator since July. For three decades, Loverro was in the Department of Defense and the National Reconnaissance Office developing, managing, and establishing national […]
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has named George Morrow to serve as acting director of the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Morrow has been serving as Goddard’s deputy center director since April 2015 and previously served as both director and deputy director of the Flight Projects Directorate at Goddard. He began his career […]
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the selection of Clayton Turner as the next director of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Turner assumed the director’s position on September 30, when current Center Director David Bowles retired after 39 years with the agency. Since 2015, Turner has served as Langley’s deputy center director. As […]
NASA Awards $2.3 Million in Fellowships to U.S. Universities for Aviation, Planetary, Space Research
NASA has awarded fellowships to 14 minority-serving institutions through its Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) and five majority institutions through its Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD), all totaling $2.3 million, to support graduate student research. The university projects funded by these fellowships represent the highest levels of the innovative breadth and depth of […]
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine was joined by U.S. Representatives Mo Brooks and Robert Aderholt of Alabama and Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to announce the center’s new role leading the agency’s Human Landing System Program for its return to the Moon by 2024. “Marshall Space Flight […]
NASA has awarded a $13.7 million contract to Advanced Space of Boulder, Colorado, to develop and operate a CubeSat mission to the same lunar orbit targeted for Gateway – an orbiting outpost astronauts will visit before descending to the surface of the Moon in a landing system as part of NASA’s Artemis program. The Cislunar […]
NASA has selected two proposals to demonstrate small satellite technologies to improve science observations in deep space, which could help NASA develop better models to predict space weather events that can affect astronauts and spacecraft. Both proposals, funded at $400,000 for nine-month mission concept studies, were selected based on potential technology and science value and […]