12 June 2020
NASA picks Astrobotic to fly VIPER to the Moon
... software. The rover hardware is being designed and built by NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and the instruments are provided by Ames, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and commercial partner Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California.
22 February 2019
NASA selects experiments for possible lunar flights in 2019
...’s Silicon Valley; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; Johnson Space Center in Houston; Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia; and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Nine...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... with two other exploration systems development efforts - the Orion crew vehicle programme, managed at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and the Ground Systems Development and Operations programme, which is converting the facilities...
17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
... joining to greet the crew from the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa joining from the Tsukuba Space Center in Japan. The welcome ceremony is targeted to begin about 1:40 am. Crew...
22 November 2015
James Webb Space Telescope prepped to receive gold-coated primary mirror segments
... view of JWST’s test backplane and mirrors sitting in their packing case at NASA Goddard’s cleanroom, prior to dispatch to Johnson Space Center for cryo testing earlier this year. The wings have recently been deployed by engineers at NASA's Goddard...
02 October 2018
New technique could provide fresh insights into how the Moon was formed
... are normally kept in a clean environment in a special building called the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at the agency’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston and do not often see the light of day. Nonetheless, NASA has approved the use...
