NASA Making Government More Accessible With Cutting-Edge Use Of New Media

is supporting the White House’s Open Government Directive with a number of Internet-based programs designed to make the agency more accessible and create a dialog with the American people about their space program.

NASA Provides Inside Look at International Space Station with Streaming Video

soon will provide Internet viewers an inside look at astronauts working in space by streaming video live from the International Space Station's laboratories.

NASA Gives 'Go' for Feb. 7 as Final Space Shuttle Night Launch

Space shuttle Endeavour is set to begin a 13-day flight to the International Space Station with a Feb. 7 launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is planned for 4:39 a.m. EST, making this the final scheduled space shuttle night launch.

NASA Cues Up University CubeSats for Glory Launch This Fall

will launch small research satellites for several universities as part of the agency's Educational Launch of Nanosatellite, or ELaNA, mission.

NASA'S Mars Rover Spirit Topic Of Media Call Jan. 26

will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 26 to discuss the status of the agency's Mars rover Spirit.

High School Students Can Send Experiments Flying with NASA

is inviting student teams nationwide to design and build an experiment or technology demonstration to be sent to the near space environment of the stratosphere, an altitude of 100,000 feet.

NASA Tweetup Gives Public Birds-Eye View Of Space Shuttle Mission

For the first time, NASA Twitter followers can personally go inside the heart of a space shuttle mission at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

From Space to the Classroom: NASA Science Improves Climate Change Education

has awarded approximately $1.4 million in cooperative agreements to enhance learning through the use of the agency's unique Earth science resources.

Rover Gives NASA an "Opportunity" to View Interior of Mars

s Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars.

Public Invited to Pick Pixels on Mars – Scientists Taking Suggestions on Where to Image the Red Planet Using NASA Satellite

The most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars will soon be taking photo suggestions from the public.

NASA Schedules News Conference about Next Space Shuttle Launch

NASA Reveals New Batch Of Space Program Artifacts

is inviting eligible education institutions, museums and other organizations to examine and request space program artifacts online. The items represent significant human space flight technologies, processes and accomplishments from NASA's past and present space exploration pr...

NASA Offers Tranquility Node Satellite Interviews from Launch Pad

Bill Dowdell, NASA Kennedy Space Center's deputy director for International Space Station and spacecraft processing, is available for satellite interviews from 6 to 9 a.m. EST on Friday, Jan. 22.

NASA Names New Wallops Flight Facility Director

Administrator Charles Bolden has named William Wrobel as director of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., and director of the center's Suborbital and Special Orbital Projects Directorate.

NASA to Hold Briefing on Advanced Mission to Study Our Sun

is scheduled to host a briefing at 1 p.m. EST, on Thursday, Jan. 21, to discuss the upcoming launch and science of an unprecedented mission to study the sun and its dynamic behavior.

NASA Revises Cost and Schedule for Displaying Retired Shuttles

has issued a follow-up Request for Information, or RFI, for ideas from education institutions, science museums and other appropriate organizations about the community's ability to acquire and publicly display orbiters after the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program.

Meet the Next International Space Station Crew: NASA Holds Briefing and One-On-One Media Interviews on Jan. 21

will hold a briefing for journalists with the next set of residents of the International Space Station at 1 p.m. CST Thursday, Jan. 21, from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA's New Museum Grant Allies Will Make the Universe Accessible to Families From Alaska to Florida

Interactive museum exhibits about climate change, Earth science, and missions beyond Earth are among the projects NASA has selected to receive agency funding.

NASA Chooses Student Teams to Drop Science Experiments

has selected teams of middle school and high school students to test their science experiments in microgravity competitions that simulate the weightlessness of space.

NASA Briefings to Preview Year's First Space Shuttle Mission Rescheduled

The news briefings to preview the year's first space shuttle mission have been rescheduled to Friday, Jan. 29, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA's Space Shuttle Crew in Washington, Available for Interviews

Headquarters in Washington will welcome space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 astronauts for a visit on Monday, Jan. 11, through Thursday, Jan. 14.

NASA Supports the President's Educate to Innovate Campaign with Summer of Innovation to Bring Students the Universe

has launched an initiative to use its out-of-this-world missions and technology programs to boost summer learning, particularly for underrepresented students across the nation.

NASA Sets Jan. 11 Briefing to Preview Upcoming Spacewalk, Soyuz Relocation and Other January Space Station Milestones

officials will discuss an upcoming spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts, the relocation of a Soyuz spacecraft to a new docking port and other International Space Station activities during a briefing at 1 p.m. CST on Monday, Jan. 11.