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Silicon Valley Event Center – Parking Information

SVEC building locations including parking areas. Where to Park at the Event Center We have event spaces in multiple buildings. See below for details. At the main Event Center in building 3, at the front of the building (East side) there is a large lot with standard and accessible spaces. This is the best place [...]

By |2025-07-28T18:02:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Selects Human Space Flight Technical Integration Contractor

Credit: NASA NASA has selected Barrios Technology, LLC, in Houston to provide technical integration services for the agency’s human spaceflight programs. The Mission Technical Integration Contract is a cost-plus-award-fee and cost-plus-incentive fee contract with core and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity requirements. It has a total estimated value of approximately $450 million, and a period of performance beginning Oct. [...]

By |2025-07-28T16:22:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4609–4610: Recharged and Ready To Roll Onwards

Curiosity NavigationCuriosity HomeMission OverviewWhere is Curiosity?Mission UpdatesScienceOverviewInstrumentsHighlightsExploration GoalsNews and FeaturesMultimediaCuriosity Raw ImagesImagesVideosAudioMosaicsMore ResourcesMars MissionsMars Sample ReturnMars Perseverance RoverMars Curiosity RoverMAVENMars Reconnaissance OrbiterMars OdysseyMore Mars MissionsMars Home 3 min read Curiosity Blog, Sols 4609–4610: Recharged and Ready To Roll Onwards NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image showing the boxwork hollow where it is investigating, and [...]

By |2025-07-28T15:57:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge

Join the 2025 NASA International Space Apps Challenge: Learn, Launch, Lead On October 4–5, 2025, NASA—along with 14 international space agency partners—invites scientists, engineers, coders, designers, storytellers, and space enthusiasts of all kinds to take part in the 2025 NASA International Space Apps Challenge. This two-day global hackathon brings together diverse teams to tackle real-world [...]

By |2025-07-28T15:00:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

OSDR Chats with Begum Mathyk

OSDR Chats: Dr Begum Mathyk Presents Latest Research in this OSDR-Enabled Publication Welcome to “OSDR Chats,” an interview series featuring authors of publications that were enabled by the Open Science Data Repository (OSDR). Researchers share highlights and insights into their work, emphasizing the valuable roles played by the OSDR in their research. This newest interview [...]

By |2025-07-28T14:54:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Welcomes Senegal as Artemis Accords Signatory

Senegal signed the Artemis Accords July 24, 2025, during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. In 2020, during the first Trump Administration, the United States, led by NASA and the State Department, joined with seven other founding nations to establish the Artemis Accords, responding to the growing interest in lunar [...]

Station Gearing Up for New Crew as Another Preps for Return to Earth

An aurora streams across Earth’s horizon in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited off the coast of southeast Australia. At bottom, a portion of the station’s U.S. segment is illuminated including the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft docked to the Harmony module’s forward port.NASA The seven-member Expedition 73 crew is gearing up [...]

By |2025-07-28T13:28:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA Drop Test Supports Safer Air Taxi Design and Certification

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An aircraft body modeled after an air taxi with weighted test dummies inside is shown after a drop test at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The test was completed June 26 at Langley’s Landing and Impact Research Facility. The aircraft was dropped from a [...]

By |2025-07-28T13:19:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA, SpaceX Complete Crew-11 Dry Dress Rehearsal

Monitors show a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft and members of the closeout crew during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission with NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov onboard, Monday, July [...]

By |2025-07-28T13:05:00-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|
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