CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Director of Public Affairs Lisa Malone welcomes about 45 of NASA’s 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. Photo credit: NASA/ Gianni Woods
Brass plaques engraved with the names of Gatha Cottee of NASA Public Affairs, Walter Cronkite of CBS News and Bill Cummins of WEZY Radio are among the list of "The Chroniclers," a roll of honor on the wall at the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In this facility reporters from television, radio, print and online media outlets have monitored countless launches, landings and other space events in order to deliver the news to the world. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Bart Hagemeyer, at left, meteorologist in charge, NOAA National Weather Service forecast office, Melbourne, Fla., and Joel Tumbiolo, Delta IV launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, participate in a prelaunch news conference on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-O mission in NASA's Kennedy Space Center press site auditorium. The GOES-O satellite is targeted to launch June 26. The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O was developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. Each of the GOES satellites continuously provides observations of 60 percent of the Earth including the continental United States, providing weather monitoring and forecast operations as well as a continuous and reliable stream of environmental information and severe weather warnings. Once in orbit, GOES-O will be designated GOES-14, and NASA will provide on-orbit checkout and then transfer operational responsibility to NOAA. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A prelaunch news conference on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-O mission is held in NASA's Kennedy Space Center press site auditorium. From left, the participants are George H. Diller, moderator, Media Services, Kennedy Space Center; Gary Davis, director, Office of Systems Development, NOAA Satellite and Information Service, Suitland, Md.; Kris Walsh, Commercial Programs manager, United Launch Alliance, Houston; Kevin Reyes, director, Business Development, Boeing Launch Services; Andre Dress, GOES-O deputy project manager, Goddard Space Flight Center; Charlie Maloney, GOES-O program manager, Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems, Seal Beach, Calif.; Bart Hagemeyer, meteorologist in charge, NOAA National Weather Service forecast office, Melbourne, Fla.; and Joel Tumbiolo, Delta IV launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The GOES-O satellite is targeted to launch June 26. The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O was developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. Each of the GOES satellites continuously provides observations of 60 percent of the Earth including the continental United States, providing weather monitoring and forecast operations as well as a continuous and reliable stream of environmental information and severe weather warnings. Once in orbit, GOES-O will be designated GOES-14, and NASA will provide on-orbit checkout and then transfer operational responsibility to NOAA. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
Brass plaques engraved with the names of "The Chroniclers" adorn the wall at the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the foreground are rows of stations where reporters from television, radio, print and online media outlets have monitored countless launches, landings and other space events in order to deliver the news to the world. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
A brass plaque engraved with the name of Bruce Hall of CBS News is among the list of "The Chroniclers," a roll of honor on the wall at the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Hall, one of six new inductees in 2017, died after a lengthy illness on May 2, 2017. In this facility reporters from television, radio, print and online media outlets have monitored countless launches, landings and other space events in order to deliver the news to the world. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
Brass plaques engraved with the names of "The Chroniclers" create a roll of honor on the wall at the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In this facility reporters from television, radio, print and online media outlets have monitored countless launches, landings and other space events in order to deliver the news to the world. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
Brass strips bear the names and photos of the six new honorees added to the "Chroniclers" roll of honor in the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more. The 2017 Chroniclers are Bruce Hall, CBS News and NBC News; Scott Harris, WESH, WKMG and Central Florida News 13; Bill Johnson, NASA Public Affairs; Warren Leary, The New York Times; Bob Murray, WDBO-TV, RCA and United Space Alliance; and Phillip Sandlin, Associated Press photographer.
This is the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where reporters from television, radio, print and online media outlets have monitored countless launches, landings and other space events in order to deliver the news to the world.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Lisa Malone, Chief, Media Services Branch, NASA Public Affairs
Bill Johnson, left, retired NASA chief of Media Services at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is congratulated by NASA Public Information Specialist George Diller during a ceremony for six new honorees added to the "Chroniclers" roll of honor in the NASA News Center. Johnson, whose career at Kennedy spanned more than 45 years, was one of the six added to the Chroniclers list. Also added were Bruce Hall, CBS News and NBC News; Scott Harris, WESH, WKMG and Central Florida News 13; Warren Leary, The New York Times; Bob Murray, WDBO-TV, RCA and United Space Alliance; and Phillip Sandlin, Associated Press photographer. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
Friends, family members and colleagues of former NASA Public Affairs team members and space journalists gather in the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a ceremony in which six new honorees were added to the "Chroniclers" roll of honor. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more. The 2017 Chroniclers are Bruce Hall, CBS News and NBC News; Scott Harris, WESH, WKMG and Central Florida News 13; Bill Johnson, NASA Public Affairs; Warren Leary, The New York Times; Bob Murray, WDBO-TV, RCA and United Space Alliance; and Phillip Sandlin, Associated Press photographer.
Current and retired NASA Public Affairs team members and space journalists gather in the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a ceremony in which six new honorees were added to the "Chroniclers" roll of honor. From left to right are Jay Barbree, NBC News; Al Feinberg, NASA Public Affairs; Marcia Dunn, Associated Press; Hugh Harris, NASA Public Affairs; Warren Leary, The New York Times; Phillip Sandlin, Associated Press photographer; Bob Murray, WDBO-TV, RCA and United Space Alliance; Bill Harwood, CBS News, there on behalf of the late Bruce Hall, CBS News; Bill Johnson, NASA Public Affairs; Emery McGough, son of the late Scott Harris, WESH, WKMG and Central Florida News 13; and Center Director Bob Cabana. Hall, Harris, Johnson, Leary, Murray and Sandlin are the 2017 Chroniclers. The program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
A poster in the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida bears the names and photos of the six new honorees added to the facility's "Chroniclers" roll of honor. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more. From top left to bottom right are Phillip Sandlin, Associated Press photographer; Bill Johnson, NASA Public Affairs; Bruce Hall, CBS News and NBC News; Scott Harris, WESH, WKMG and Central Florida News 13; Warren Leary, The New York Times; and Bob Murray, WDBO-TV, RCA and United Space Alliance.
Posters in the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida bear the names and photos of five of the six new honorees added to the facility's "Chroniclers" roll of honor. From left to right are posters featuring Scott Harris, WESH, WKMG and Central Florida News 13; Bill Johnson, NASA Public Affairs; Warren Leary, The New York Times; Bob Murray, WDBO-TV, RCA and United Space Alliance; and Phillip Sandlin, Associated Press photographer. Not pictured is the poster for Bruce Hall, CBS News and NBC News. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
LCROSS Impact Night from left to right operating the NASA Ames Public Affairs Office media room are Wendy Stincele, Cathy Weselby, Jerry Colen, and Linda Conrad.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Following the successful launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-111 today, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe (right) talks to the media in a briefing in the NASA/KSC television studio. At left is Kyle Herring, public affairs office, Johnson Space Center, who moderated.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Center Director Bob Cabana and Public Affairs Director Lisa Malone speak to the local media about the FY 2012 budget during an informal briefing held in the TV studio at the Press Site. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Following the successful launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-111 today, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe (right) talks to the media in a briefing in the NASA/KSC television studio. At left is Kyle Herring, public affairs office, Johnson Space Center, who moderated.
NASA Public Affairs Officer Felicia Chou moderates a media briefing where astrophysics experts discuss the upcoming launch of NASA’s next planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Public Affairs Officer Felicia Chou moderates a media briefing where astrophysics experts discuss the upcoming launch of NASA’s next planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Dwayne Brown, NASA public affairs officer, moderates a media briefing where panelist outlined activities around the Sunday, Sept. 21 orbital insertion at Mars of the agency’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. (Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
iss063e020091 (May 14, 2020) --- Roscosmos cosmonauts and Expedition 63 Flight Engineers (from left) Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin record a public affairs event for Russian media from the International Space Station's Zvezda service module.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Center Director Bob Cabana and Public Affairs Director Lisa Malone speak to the local media about the FY 2012 budget during an informal briefing held in the TV studio at the Press Site. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Public Affairs Officer George Diller speaks to about 45 of NASA’s social media followers during two days of presentations on the Kennedy'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. Photo credit: NASA/ Gianni Woods
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Public Affairs Officer George Diller speaks to about 45 of NASA’s social media followers during two days of presentations on the Kennedy'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. Photo credit: NASA/ Kim Shiflett
JSC2011-E-060800 (30 June 2011) --- The STS-135 crew meets with the Johnson Space Center public affairs team before the crew's media briefing at NASA?s Johnson Space Center in Houston on June 30, 2011. The press conference provided the last scheduled opportunity for a large group of press to speak with the crew before the final launch on July 8. Shown, from left, are Rob Navias and James Hartsfield of public affairs, and NASA astronauts Sandy Magnus, Rex Walheim, Chris Ferguson and Doug Hurley. Photo credit: NASA Photo/Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool
S89-25326 (11 Jan 1989) --- Five astronauts field questions from the news media, as they interrupt a busy training schedule in preparation for NASA's STS-29 mission in mid-March. Left to right on the dais are Astronauts James P. Bagian, James F. Buchli, Robert C. Springer, John E. Blaha and Michael L. Coats. Coats is mission commander. Jeffrey E. Carr of the Media Services Branch of JSC's Public Affairs Office, is at far right.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- From the left, former NASA Director of Public Affairs Hugh Harris is joined by Jack King, former NASA chief of Public Information, John Tribe, retired chief engineer for Boeing/Rockwell Launch Support Services, and Roy Tharpe, president of Space Gateway Support, speak to about 45 of NASA’s 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. Photo credit: NASA/ Gianni Woods
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency leaders spoke to members of the news media about the successful Orion Flight Test. From left are: Rachel Kraft, of NASA Public Affairs, Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Mark Geyer, Orion program manager, Mike Hawes, Lockheed Martin Orion Program manager, and NASA astronaut Rex Walheim. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Linda Billings, research professor, Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University shares her thoughts during a program titled "Sally Ride: How Her Historic Space Mission Opened Doors for Women in Science" held on Friday, May 17, 2013 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Dwayne Brown, NASA public affairs officer, moderates a media briefing where panelists outlined how space and Earth-based assets will be used to image and study comet Siding Spring during its Sunday, Oct. 19 flyby of Mars, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency and industry leaders spoke to members of the news media about the postponement of the Orion Flight Test launch due to an issue related to fill and drain valves on the Delta IV Heavy rocket. From left are: Brandi Dean of NASA Public Affairs, Mark Geyer, NASA's Orion program manager, Mike Hawes, Lockheed Martin Orion Program manager, and Dan Collins, United Launch Alliance chief operating officer.
JSC2011-E-060457 (30 June 2011) --- The STS-135 crew members along with Public Affairs Office moderator Nicole Cloutier (left) are pictured during a preflight press conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center. From the second left are NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson, commander; Doug Hurley, pilot; Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, both mission specialists. News media representatives are visible in the foreground. Photo credit: NASA
Linda Billings, research professor, Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University shares her thoughts during a program titled "Sally Ride: How Her Historic Space Mission Opened Doors for Women in Science" held on Friday, May 17, 2013 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency leaders spoke to members of the news media about the successful Orion Flight Test. From left are: Rachel Kraft, of NASA Public Affairs, Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Mark Geyer, Orion program manager, Mike Hawes, Lockheed Martin Orion Program manager, and NASA astronaut Rex Walheim.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Press Site auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, media were briefed about updates to aeronautics research at NASA. Seen here are NASA Public Affairs Officer Beth Dickey, Edgar G. Waggoner, director of the Integrated Systems Research Program Office, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and John Cavolowsky, director of the Airspace Systems Program Office, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. Photo credit: NASA/Frankie Martin
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Press Site auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, media were briefed about the agency's next step for Human Space Flight. Seen here are NASA Public Affairs Officer Mike Curie (left); Lori Garver, NASA deputy administrator; Doug Cooke, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate associate administrator and Mike Suffredini, NASA International Space Station Program manager. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
STS-26 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, crew including Commander Frederick H. Hauck and Pilot Richard O. Covey and JSC Director Aaron Cohen participate in press conference held at JSC Auditorium and Public Affairs Facility Bldg 2. Hauck and Covey are shown with Cohen as they ponder queries from news media representatives during the first press conference for the group since the mission's announcement last week. Left to right are Covey, Hauck, and Cohen.
S82-25903 (21 Jan. 1982) --- Astronaut Jack R. Lousma, center, and C. Gordon Fullerton, left, respond to a visual depicting the Columbia and its remote manipulator system in space during a pre-STS-3 press conference in JSC?s pubic affairs building. Dr. John Lawrence, public information specialist who introduced the crew to news media representatives, is at far right. Photo credit: NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Press Site auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, media were briefed about the agency's next step for Human Space Flight. Seen here are NASA Public Affairs Officer Mike Curie (left); Lori Garver, NASA deputy administrator; Doug Cooke, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate associate administrator and Mike Suffredini, NASA International Space Station Program manager. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
Crew members for the joint Space Shuttle / Mir mission field questions from the press at JSC. Left to right are cosmonauts Nikolai M. Budarin, Anatoliy Y. Solovyov, Gennadiy M. Strekalov, Vladimir N. Dezhurov, and astronauts Bonnie J. Dunbar, Norman E. Thagard, along with Kari L. Fluegel of the Public Affairs Office's (PAO) News and Media Services Branch. Flags representing the international space partners - Russia, the United States, the European Space Agency (ESA), Canada and Japan - are displayed behind the conference participants.
Three members of the STS-60 crew and an alternate crew member discuss their upcoming mission with the news media in JSC's public affairs facility. Seated from the left are Charles F. Bolden Jr., mission commander; Russian Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, mission specialist; Russian Cosmonaut Vladimir Titov, alternate mission specialist; interpreter Vladimir Fischel and Astronaut Kenneth S. Reightler, pilot.
NASA Headquarters Public Affairs Officer Steve Cole moderates a Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission 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. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, social media participants take part in a question and answer session with astronauts aboard the International Space Station. At the podium, Ranz Adams asks a question of space station flight engineer Joe Acaba. Leading the activity from the desk at the front of the room are, from the left, Laurel Lichtenberger of NASA Public Affairs, Jason Townsend of the NASA Social Media Team and Kerri Beisser of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The social media gathering at the Florida spaceport took place Aug. 22, 2012 joining a world-wide NASA Social allowing participants to ask questions of NASA astronauts who are living and working aboard the International Space Station. . For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html Photo credit: NASA/ Frankie Martin
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Former NASA Director of Public Affairs Hugh Harris, left, is joined by Jill Rock, of Kennedy's External Relations Office, in speaking to about 45 of NASA’s social media followers about the space agency's extensive efforts to host guests and VIPs over the years. They were among several speakers to address the participants during 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. Photo credit: NASA/ Gianni Woods
NASA Public Affairs Specialist Kristi Irastorza hosts a “Mars 2020 Social Media Q&A: En Español” program on Wednesday, July 22, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The event featured representatives from NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) and NASA’s 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 Station’s 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.
NASA Public Affairs Specialist Kristi Irastorza hosts a “Mars 2020 Social Media Q&A: En Español” program on Wednesday, July 22, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The event featured representatives from NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) and NASA’s 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 Station’s 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. - NASA's Commercial Crew Program Manager Ed Mango and astronaut Mike Good media on the progress of American human spaceflight development at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At right is NASA Public Affairs Officer Gregory Harland. They also discussed the future steps the program will take to certify crew transportation systems for missions to the International Space Station. The program is working toward the next phase of certification, which will be called Commercial Crew Transportation Capability, or CCtCap. That phase will include a joint test concept in which NASA astronauts will play a role in flight testing the systems. To learn more about CCP, visit www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew. Photo credit: Jim Grossmann
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Press Site auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, media were briefed about NASA's future science missions. Seen here are NASA Public Affairs Officer George Diller (left); Waleed Abdalati, NASA chief scientist; Amanda Mitskevich, NASA Launch Services Program manager; Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator with the Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio; Maria Zuber, GRAIL principal investigator with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Grotzinger, Mars Science Lab project scientist with the California Institute of Technology and Daniel Stern, NuStar project scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Calif. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency and industry leaders spoke to members of the news media as the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and its Falcon 9 rocket were being prepared for launch. From left are: Mike Curie of NASA Public Affairs, Mike Suffredini, NASA International Space Station program manager, Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX vice president of Mission Assurance, and Maj. Perry Sweat, U.S. Air Force’s 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director Janet Petro, left, NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, second from left, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, center, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, second from right, and NASA Public Affairs Officer Joshua Santora, right, answer social media questions ahead of the launch of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Perseverance rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. Launch is scheduled for Thursday, July 30. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency and industry leaders spoke to members of the news media on International Space Station research and technology developments. From left are: Mike Curie of NASA Public Affairs, Julie Robinson, ISS Program chief scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Kenneth Shields, director of operations and education for the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Cheryl Nickerson of Arizona State University, and principal investigator for the Micro-5 experiment, and Samuel Durrance of the Florida Institute of Technology, principal investigator for the NR-SABOL experiment. Photo credit: NASA/ Kim Shiflett
Public Affairs and Outreach Lead of the ISS National Laboratory Patrick O’Neill participates in a social media panel discussion inside the John Holliman Auditorium of the News Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff of the eighth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the station and the ninth flight of Dragon with people as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A is targeted for 12:04 a.m. on Friday, March 1.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency leaders spoke to members of the news media on the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System. CATS will monitor cloud and aerosol coverage that directly impacts global climate. From left are: Mike Curie of NASA Public Affairs, Julie Robinson, ISS Program chief scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Robert Swap, program scientist at NASA Headquarters' Earth Science Division, and Matthew McGill, CATS principal investigator at Goddard. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
JSC2011-E-060798 (30 June 2011) --- The STS-135 crew, from left, mission specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, commander Chris Ferguson and pilot Doug Hurley follow Public Affairs Officer Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters to begin a crew media briefing at NASA?s Johnson Space Center on June 30, 2011. The press conference provided the last scheduled opportunity for a large group of press to speak with the crew before the final launch on July 8. Photo credit: NASA Photo/Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool
JSC2011-E-028489 (24 March 2011) --- The STS-134 crew members along with Public Affairs Office moderator Nicole Cloutier (left) are pictured during a preflight press conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center. From the second left are NASA astronauts Mark Kelly, commander; Greg H. Johnson, pilot; and Michael Fincke, European Space Agency?s Roberto Vittori, and NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel and Greg Chamitoff, all mission specialists. News media representatives are visible in the foreground. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At a post-launch news conference for the media about launch of the Space Tracking and Satellite System – Demonstrator spacecraft, NASA Launch Manager Omar Baez, at center, responds to a question. At right is Rear Adm. Joseph Horn, deputy director, with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. At left, Public Affairs Officer Tracy Young moderates. The STSS-Demo is a space-based sensor component of a layered Ballistic Missile Defense System designed for the overall mission of detecting, tracking and discriminating ballistic missiles. The spacecraft was launched by NASA for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
Panel discussion participants, from left, Linda Billings, research professor, Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University, Ellen Ochoa, director, NASA Johnson Space Center, Tom Costello, NBC News and moderator for the event, Margaret Weitekamp, space history curator, National Air and Space Museum, Dan Vergano, science writer for USA Today, and Rene McCormick, director of standards and quality, National Math and Science Initiative, are seen during a program titled "Sally Ride: How Her Historic Space Mission Opened Doors for Women in Science" held on Friday, May 17, 2013 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director Janet Petro, left, NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, second from left, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, center, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, second from right, and NASA Public Affairs Officer Joshua Santora, right, answer social media questions ahead of the launch of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Perseverance rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. Launch is scheduled for Thursday, July 30. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At a post-launch news conference for the media about launch of the Space Tracking and Satellite System – Demonstrator spacecraft, Rear Adm. Joseph Horn, deputy director with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, answers a question. NASA Launch Manager Omar Baez is at center. At left, Public Affairs Officer Tracy Young moderates. The STSS-Demo is a space-based sensor component of a layered Ballistic Missile Defense System designed for the overall mission of detecting, tracking and discriminating ballistic missiles. The spacecraft was launched by NASA for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Commercial Crew Program Manager Ed Mango and astronaut Mike Good media on the progress of American human spaceflight development at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At right is NASA Public Affairs Officer Gregory Harland. They also discussed the future steps the program will take to certify crew transportation systems for missions to the International Space Station. The program is working toward the next phase of certification, which will be called Commercial Crew Transportation Capability, or CCtCap. That phase will include a joint test concept in which NASA astronauts will play a role in flight testing the systems. To learn more about CCP, visit www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew. Photo credit: Jim Grossmann
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency and industry leaders spoke to members of the news media as the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and its Falcon 9 rocket were being prepared for launch. From left are: Mike Curie of NASA Public Affairs, Mike Suffredini, NASA International Space Station program manager, Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX vice president of Mission Assurance, and Maj. Perry Sweat, U.S. Air Force’s 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Public Affairs Officer Tracy Young moderates a post-launch news conference for the media about the Space Tracking and Satellite System – Demonstrator spacecraft. Seated at center is Omar Baez, NASA launch manager, and Rear Adm. Joseph Horn, deputy director, with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. The STSS-Demo is a space-based sensor component of a layered Ballistic Missile Defense System designed for the overall mission of detecting, tracking and discriminating ballistic missiles. The spacecraft was launched by NASA for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
JSC2011-E-028501 (24 March 2011) --- The STS-134 crew members along with Public Affairs Office moderator Nicole Cloutier (left) are pictured during a preflight press conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center. From the second left are NASA astronauts Mark Kelly, commander; Greg H. Johnson, pilot; and Michael Fincke, European Space Agency?s Roberto Vittori, and NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel and Greg Chamitoff, all mission specialists. News media representatives are visible in the foreground. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Chloe Morgan, Expeditionary Strike Group 3 Public Affairs Officer gives remarks during a media event where NASA and the Department of Defense discussed the recovery operations that will bring the Artemis II astronauts and the agency’s Orion spacecraft home at the conclusion of next year’s mission around the Moon, Monday, March 31, 2025, onboard USS Somerset at Naval Base San Diego, in California. The teams spent the week practicing the procedures they will use to recover the astronauts after their more than 600,000 mile journey from Earth to the Moon and back on the first crewed mission under the Artemis campaign. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
S78-25633 (31 Jan. 1978) --- These six mission specialist astronaut candidates are the first women ASCANs to be named by NASA. They are, left to right, Rhea Seddon, Anna L. Fisher, Judith A. Resnik, Shannon W. Lucid, Sally K. Ride and Kathryn D. Sullivan. Along with these candidates, 14 other mission specialist candidates and 15 pilot astronaut candidates were presented during a press conference at the Johnson Space Center on Jan. 31, 1978. All 35 met the press in the larger Teague Auditorium and the women greeted photographers and other media representatives in the Public Affairs Office briefing room. Photo credit: NASA
Chloe Morgan, Expeditionary Strike Group 3 Public Affairs Officer gives remarks during a media event where NASA and the Department of Defense discussed the recovery operations that will bring the Artemis II astronauts and the agency’s Orion spacecraft home at the conclusion of next year’s mission around the Moon, Monday, March 31, 2025, onboard USS Somerset at Naval Base San Diego, in California. The teams spent the week practicing the procedures they will use to recover the astronauts after their more than 600,000 mile journey from Earth to the Moon and back on the first crewed mission under the Artemis campaign. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency and industry leaders spoke to members of the news media about the postponement of the Orion Flight Test launch due to an issue related to fill and drain valves on the Delta IV Heavy rocket. From left are: Brandi Dean of NASA Public Affairs, Mark Geyer, NASA's Orion program manager, Mike Hawes, Lockheed Martin Orion Program manager, and Dan Collins, United Launch Alliance chief operating officer. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion Photo credit: NASA/Frankie Martin
NASA Public Affairs Specialist Kristi Irastorza hosts a “Mars 2020 Social Media Q&A: En Español” program on Wednesday, July 22, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The event featured representatives from NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) and NASA’s 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 Station’s 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. -- A media event was held on the grounds near the Press Site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida where a Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is on display. The MPCV is based on the Orion design requirements for traveling beyond low Earth orbit and will serve as the exploration vehicle that will carry the crew to space, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel, and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities. Seen here is Public Affairs Officer Amber Philman (center), Lori Garver, NASA deputy administrator and Mark Geyer, Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle program manager speaking to media during a question-and-answer session. Photo credit: NASA/Frankie Martin
"While in college, I discovered a program called Stay in School where high school and college students go to work part-time in the government. I was in the program for about two years before I came to NASA in October 1985. It was shortly before the Shuttle accident. I was a math major and I liked to challenge myself, so I thought that I would come to NASA to help build satellites or rockets or something… but when I came here, I was assigned to the Public Affairs Office. "And when the Challenger accident happened, I saw how everyone came together in the public affairs office. I mean, they were helping people — news media — everybody. And I was like, 'I like this!' So I stayed. And I forgot all about being a rocket scientist. And that’s the path I took. The rest is history. I’ve been here ever since." NASA Senior Photo Researcher, Connie Moore, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, members of news media are briefed on preparations for the launch of the SpaceX CRS-4 mission to resupply the International Space Station. Mike Curie of NASA Public Affairs, moderated the briefing. 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 spacecraft’s 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. To learn more about the mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/index.html Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency and industry leaders spoke to members of the news media as the Orion spacecraft and its Delta IV Heavy rocket were being prepared for launch. From left are: Brandi Dean of NASA Public Affairs, Mark Geyer, Orion program manager, Mike Hawes, Lockheed Martin Orion Program manager, and Ron Fortson, United Launch Alliance director of mission management. 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 NASA’s Space Launch System rocket.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Press Site auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA managers brief media about the launch status of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission. From left are NASA Public Affairs Officer Candrea Thomas, Space Shuttle Program Launch Integration Manager, Mike Moses, Shuttle Launch Director, Mike Leinbach, and Shuttle Weather Officer, Kathy Winters. Endeavour and its crew 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 International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for April 29 at 3:47 p.m. EDT. This will be the final spaceflight for Endeavour. For more information visit, www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts134/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA officials detail progress toward a September 2014 flight test called Exploration Flight Test-1 or EFT-1 as part of the agency's goal of launching astronauts into deep space. Speaking inside the Young-Crippen Firing Room at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the officials discussed the goals and expectations for EFT-1 with news media. Seated, facing the camera from left to right are Pepper Phillips, Ground Systems Development and Operations program manager, Todd May, Space Launch System program manager, Mark Geyer, Orion program manager and Dan Dumbacher, deputy associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Division. Standing is Rachel Kraft, a public affairs officer from NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
A social media panel discussion takes place inside the John Holliman Auditorium of the News Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station. Participants, from left to right are Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications; NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free; Carla Koch, mission manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program; Jennifer Buchli, chief scientist, International Space Station; Kristin Fabre, deputy chief scientist of NASA’s Human Research Program; and Patrick O’Neill, public affairs and outreach lead of the ISS National Laboratory. Liftoff of the eighth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the station and the ninth flight of Dragon with people as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A is targeted for 12:04 a.m. on Friday, March 1.
A social media panel discussion takes place inside the John Holliman Auditorium of the News Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station. Participants, from left to right are Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications; NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free; Carla Koch, mission manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program; Jennifer Buchli, chief scientist, International Space Station; Kristin Fabre, deputy chief scientist of NASA’s Human Research Program; and Patrick O’Neill, public affairs and outreach lead of the ISS National Laboratory. Liftoff of the eighth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the station and the ninth flight of Dragon with people as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A is targeted for 12:04 a.m. on Friday, March 1.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency and industry leaders spoke to members of the news media as the Orion spacecraft and its Delta IV Heavy rocket were being prepared for launch. From left are: Brandi Dean of NASA Public Affairs, Mark Geyer, Orion program manager, Mike Hawes, Lockheed Martin Orion Program manager, and Ron Fortson, United Launch Alliance director of mission management. 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 NASA’s Space Launch System rocket.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – During a press conference in the NASA News Auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach, right, answers a question from the media. Others from left are NASA Public Affairs Officer John Yembrick, who moderated, Associate Administrator for NASA's Space Operations Directorate William Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate Ed Weiler and Launch Integration Manager Mike Moses. The conference followed the successful launch of space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-125 mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis' 11-day flight will include five spacewalks to refurbish and upgrade the telescope with state-of-the-art science instruments that will expand Hubble's capabilities and extend its operational lifespan through at least 2014. The payload includes a Wide Field Camera 3, Fine Guidance Sensor and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
NASA Public Affairs Specialist Kristi Irastorza, left, and NASA’s 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 NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The event featured representatives from LSP and NASA’s 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 Station’s 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. -- NASA Public Affairs Officer Candrea Thomas, NASA Test Director Steve Payne and Shuttle Launch Weather Officer Kathy Winters talk to media about the progression of the countdown to launch space shuttle Discovery on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station and the launch-day weather forecast. Scheduled to lift off Feb. 24 at 4:50 p.m. EST, Discovery and its six-member 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 outpost. For more information on the STS-133 mission, visit www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts133/. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, news media members listen as agency and industry leaders the status of preparations for launch of the Orion spacecraft atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket. From left are: Brandi Dean of NASA Public Affairs, Mark Geyer, Orion program manager, Mike Hawes, Lockheed Martin Orion Program manager, and Ron Fortson, United Launch Alliance director of mission management. 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 NASA’s Space Launch System rocket.
Dwayne Brown, NASA public affairs officer, left, moderates a media briefing where panelist, seated from left, Lisa May, lead program executive, Mars Exploration Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington, Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, David Mitchell, MAVEN project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, and Guy Beutelschies, Lockheed Martin MAVEN program manager, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Littleton, Colorado, outlined activities around the Sunday, Sept. 21 orbital insertion at Mars of the agency’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. (Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
As part of NASA’s NextGen STEM project, Public Affairs Writers Danielle Sempsrott (left) and Jason Costa address students from Florida’s St. Cloud High School and Storm Grove Middle School in Vero Beach during an Artemis I student media briefing inside the John Holliman Auditorium of the News Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 19, 2023. Participants in the briefing included Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director Kelvin Manning, Artemis Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Manager of the Space Launch System Resident Management Office Elkin Norena, and Space Launch Delta 45 Weather Officer Melody Lovin. Along with the students participating in person, middle and high school students across the country had the opportunity to ask questions of the panel via phone to discuss the Artemis I mission and the agency’s future of human space exploration.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA officials detail progress toward a September 2014 flight test called Exploration Flight Test-1 or EFT-1 as part of the agency's goal of launching astronauts into deep space. Speaking inside the Young-Crippen Firing Room at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the officials discussed the goals and expectations for EFT-1 with news media. Seated, facing the camera from left to right are Pepper Phillips, Ground Systems and Development program manager, Todd May, Space Launch System program manager, Mark Geyer, Orion program manager and Dan Dumbacher, deputy associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Division. Standing is Rachel Kraft, a public affairs officer from NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Public Affairs Officer Candrea Thomas, NASA Test Director Steve Payne and Shuttle Launch Weather Officer Kathy Winters talk to media about the progression of the countdown to launch space shuttle Discovery on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station and the launch-day weather forecast. Scheduled to lift off Feb. 24 at 4:50 p.m. EST, Discovery and its six-member 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 outpost. For more information on the STS-133 mission, visit www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts133/. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Public Affairs Officer Candrea Thomas, NASA Test Director Jeff Spaulding and Shuttle Launch Weather Officer Kathy Winters talk to media about picking up the countdown to launch space shuttle Discovery on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station and the launch-day weather forecast. Scheduled to lift off Feb. 24 at 4:50 p.m. EST, Discovery and its six-member 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 outpost. For more information on the STS-133 mission, visit www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts133/. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, members of the news media attend a post-launch news conference in the Press Site auditorium following the successful launch of the Ares I-X test rocket at 11:30 a.m. EDT Oct. 28. Onstage, from left, are moderator George Diller, NASA Public Affairs officer; Doug Cooke, associate administrator for NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate; Jeff Hanley, Constellation Program manager; Bob Ess, mission manager for the Ares I-X flight test; and Edward Mango, launch director for the Ares I-X flight test. For more information on the Ares I-X vehicle and flight test, visit http://www.nasa.gov/aresIX. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California – At Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, agency and industry leaders spoke to members of the news media as the Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP, satellite and its Delta II rocket were being prepared for launch. From left are: George Diller of NASA Public Affairs, Christine Bonniksen, SMAP program executive at NASA Headquarters, Tim Dunn, NASA launch manager at Kennedy Space Center, Florida Vern Thorp, program manager for NASA Missions for United Launch Alliance in Centennial, Colorado, Kent Kellogg, SMAP Project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Dara Entekhabi, SMAP science team leader at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and 1st Lt. John Martin, launch weather officer, 30th Operations Support Squadron at Vandenberg. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA public affairs specialist George Diller (left) is honored with a Harry Kolcum Memorial News and Communications Award for 2004 by the National Space Club Florida Committee at the Radisson Resort at the Port, Cape Canaveral, Fla. He is joined by Marcie Young, wife of the late chief of NASA news operations at Kennedy Space Center, Dick Young, with whom Diller worked for many years. Each year, the National Space Club Florida Committee recognizes area representatives of the news media and communications professions for excellence in their ability to communicate the space story along Florida’s Space Coast and throughout the world. The award is named in honor of Harry Kolcum, the former managing editor of Aviation Week and Space Technology, who was Cape bureau chief from 1980 to 1993 prior to his death in 1994. Kolcum was a founding member of the National Space Club Florida Committee.
NASA Public Affairs Officer Stephanie Schierholz, standing left, moderates a media briefing with NASA Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWit, left, NASA International Space Station Deputy Director Robyn Gatens, center, and NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate William Gerstenmaier where they announced the agency’s five-part plan to open the International Space Station to expanded commercial and marketing activities and private astronaut missions to the station and enable additional commercial destinations in low-Earth orbit, Friday, June 7, 2019 at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City. NASA will continue to maintain human presence and research in low-Earth orbit, and the long-term goal is to achieve a robust economy from which NASA can purchase services at a lower cost. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Media attending a pre-launch news conference at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. heard from officials who discussed payloads to be launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule. From the left are: Mike Curie of NASA Public Affairs at the Kennedy Space Center, Mike Suffredini, NASA program manager for the International Space Station at the Johnson Space Center, Gwynne Shotwell, president of SpaceX, and Joel Tumbiolo, launch weather officer for the 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral Air Force 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. For more information, visit http:__www.nasa.gov_mission_pages_station_structure_launch_spacex2-feature.html Photo credit: NASA_Kim Shiflett
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency and industry leaders spoke to members of the news media as the Orion spacecraft and its Delta IV Heavy rocket were being prepared for launch. From left are: Brandi Dean of NASA Public Affairs, Mark Geyer, Orion program manager, Mike Hawes, Lockheed Martin Orion Program manager, Jeff Angermeier, Exploration Flight Test-1 Ground Systems Development and Operations mission manager, Ron Fortson, United Launch Alliance director of mission management, and Kathy Winters, U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing Launch Weather officer. On the right, Mike Sarafin, Orion flight director, participated via video from the Johnson Space Center. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion. Photo credit: NASA/Frankie Martin
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA holds a post-launch media briefing following the successful launch of NASA's SpaceX CRS-4 mission to the International Space Station. From left are Michael Curie, moderator, NASA Public Affairs, Sam Scimemi, International Space Station Division director, NASA Human Exploration and Operation Mission Directorate, and Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of Mission Assurance, SpaceX. 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 spacecraft’s 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. To learn more about the mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site annex building in Florida, Public Affairs Director Lisa Malone speaks to NASA Social media followers about the SpaceX 2 Commercial Resupply Mission to the International Space Station and how Kennedy’s News Center supports prelaunch and launch activities. Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft is planned for March 1, 2013, at 10:10 a.m. EST, from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Dragon will be making its third trip to the space station. It will carry supplies and experiments to the orbiting laboratory. The mission is the second of 12 SpaceX flights contracted by NASA to resupply the space station. For more information, visit http:__www.nasa.gov_mission_pages_station_structure_launch_spacex2-feature.html Photo credit: NASA_Frankie Martin
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Press Site auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA managers brief media about their unanimous approval to proceed with space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission. From left, are NASA Public Affairs Officer Candrea Thomas, Space Shuttle Program Launch Integration Manager Mike Moses, Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach and Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters. Endeavour's launch is scheduled for May 16 at 8:56 a.m. EDT. Endeavour and its crew 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 station. This will be the final spaceflight for Endeavour. For more information visit, www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts134/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Media attending a pre-launch news conference at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. heard from officials who discussed payloads to be launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule. From the left are: Mike Curie of NASA Public Affairs at the Kennedy Space Center, Mike Suffredini, NASA program manager for the International Space Station at the Johnson Space Center, Gwynne Shotwell, president of SpaceX, and Joel Tumbiolo, launch weather officer for the 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral Air Force 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. For more information, visit http:__www.nasa.gov_mission_pages_station_structure_launch_spacex2-feature.html Photo credit: NASA_Kim Shiflett
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Press Site auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA managers brief media about the launch status of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission. From left are NASA Public Affairs Officer Candrea Thomas, Space Shuttle Program Launch Integration Manager, Mike Moses, Shuttle Launch Director, Mike Leinbach, and Shuttle Weather Officer, Kathy Winters. Endeavour and its crew 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 International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for April 29 at 3:47 p.m. EDT. This will be the final spaceflight for Endeavour. For more information visit, www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts134/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Press Site auditorium, space agency officials participate in a media briefing following the launch scrub of Space Shuttle mission STS-111. From left are NASA/JSC Public Affairs Officer Kyle Herring, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, French Space Agency President Dr. Alain Bensoussan, and Canadian Space Agency President Dr. Marc Garneau. STS-111 is the second Utilization Flight to the International Space Station, carrying the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo, the Mobile Base System (MBS), and a replacement wrist/roll joint for the Canadarm 2. Also on board will be the Expedition Five crew who will replace Expedition Four on the Station. Launch is rescheduled for May 31 at 7:22 p.m. EDT