NASA Press Conferences

Images from press events at NASA, featuring astronauts and officials discussing space missions, showcasing the professional setting and engagement with the media.

PHOTO DATE: 07-16-14 LOCATION: Bldg. 2s - PAO Studio BSUBJECT: Expedition 41/42 Crew News Conference with crew members Elena Serova (RSA), Alexander Samokutyaev (RSA) and Barry "Butch" Wilmore.

JSC2002-E-05100 (15 February 2002) --- Astronaut John M. Grunsfeld, STS-109 payload commander, responds to a query during a pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC).

PHOTO DATE: 07-16-14 LOCATION: Bldg. 2s - PAO Studio BSUBJECT: Expedition 41/42 Crew News Conference with crew members Elena Serova (RSA), Alexander Samokutyaev (RSA) and Barry "Butch" Wilmore.

STS-132 Press Conference. Photo Date: May 3, 2010. Location: Building 2N, Press Conference Room.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Members of NASAs International Space Station science team brief news media representatives in the Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium in preparation for the launch of the SpaceX CRS-4 mission to resupply the International Space Station. Sam Scimemi, International Space Station Division director of Human Exploration and Operation Mission Directorate, participated in 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 spacecrafts 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.

In the Kennedy Space Center's Press Site auditorium, Dale Ketcham chief of Strategic Alliances for Space Florida, speaks to members of the media at a news conference to discuss upcoming flight tests to study the effects of sonic booms. Kennedy is partnering with Armstrong, Langley and Space Florida for a program called SonicBAT for Sonic Booms in Atmospheric Turbulence. Starting in August, NASA F-18 jets will take off from the Shuttle Landing Facility and fly at supersonic speeds while agency researchers on the ground measure the effects of low-altitude turbulence on sonic booms. The study could lead to technology mitigating the annoying sonic booms making possible supersonic flights over populated areas.

NASA Officials gather at Ames Research Center to discuss Spaceship development progress. Constellation is developing the Orion spacecraft and Ares rockets to support an American return to the moon by 2020. Speaker; Skip Hatfield, JSC Orion Project Manager

DATE: 9-20-11LOCATION: Bldg. 2N, Press Conf. RoomSUBJECT: Soyuz 29 Crew News Conference at JSC (Don Pettit, Andre Kuipers (ESA), Oleg Kononenko (RSA) )

Eric Ianson, Aquarius Program Executive, NASA Headquarters, talks about NASA's Aquarius/SAC-D mission to study the salinity of Earth's oceans from space on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The mission is a collaboration between NASA and Argentina's space agency Comision Nacional de Actividades Especiales (CONAE), with participation from Brazil, Canada, France and Italy. The Aquarius/SAC-D observatory will launch June 9, 2011 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

NASA Officials gather at Ames Research Center to discuss Spaceship development progress. Constellation is developing the Orion spacecraft and Ares rockets to support an American return to the moon by 2020. (with Kelly Humphries, JSC - on detail to Ames PAO '07-'08)

Richard Grugel, principal investigator, NASAs Marshall Spaceflight Center, speaks to members of the media during a briefing in the Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

DATE: 9-20-11LOCATION: Bldg. 2N, Press Conf. RoomSUBJECT: Soyuz 29 Crew News Conference at JSC (Don Pettit, Andre Kuipers (ESA), Oleg Kononenko (RSA) )

Greg Kopp, from the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder, Colo., talks about the launch of the GLORY mission during a news conference at NASA Headquarters, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011, in Washington. NASA's newest Earth-observing research mission is scheduled for launch form Vandenburg Air Force Base in California on Feb. 23. The mission will improve our understanding of how the sun and tiny atmosppheric particles called aerosols affect Earth's climate.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, International Space Station and Spacecraft Processing Deputy Director Bill Dowdell helps mark the 10-year milestone of human life, work and research aboard the International Space Station with a panel discussion that aired on NASA TV. Panelists not pictured are Center Director Bob Cabana, International Space Station and Spacecraft Processing Director Josie Burnett and Director of The Boeing Company's Program Management Development David Bethay.Johnson Space Center in Houston, Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and NASA Headquarters in Washington also hosted panel discussions for the milestone celebration.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

JSC2002-E-05098 (15 February 2002) --- Astronaut Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, fields a question during a pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC).

STS-128 Press Conference. Photo Date: August 13, 2009. Location: Bldg. 2 - Rm 122 Press Conference.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Sam Scimemi, International Space Station Division director, NASA Human Exploration and Operation Mission Directorate, participates in a post-launch media briefing following the successful launch of NASA's SpaceX CRS-4 mission to the International Space Station. 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 spacecrafts 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.

JSC2002-E-05103 (15 February 2002) --- Astronaut Michael J. Massimino, STS-109 mission specialist, responds to a query during a pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC).

Life from other Worlds' with McNair Middle School TROV robot explores under Antarctic ice - image of Ron Schutz

Tim Larson, EPOXI Project Manager from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., speaks during a press conference, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The press conference was held to discuss the Nov. 4 successful flyby of Comet Hartley 2 by NASA's EPOXI Mission Spacecraft. Images from the flyby provided scientists the most extensive observations of a comet in history.

In the Press Site auditorium of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, William Spetch, deputy manager of the International Space Station Transportation Office, speaks to the news media at a post-launch news conference following the liftoff of SpaceX CRS-10, a commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX CRS-10 lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy's Launch Complex 39A at 9:39 a.m. EST.

JSC2001-E-19302 (25 June 2001) --- Astronaut James F. Reilly, STS-104 mission specialist, ponders a question during a pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC).

In Kennedy Space Center's Press Site auditorium, members of the media participate in a mission briefing on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Robert Lockwood, TESS spacecraft program manager, Orbital ATK, answers questions during the briefing. TESS is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. The satellite will survey the nearest and brightest stars for two years to search for transiting exoplanets. TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 16.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green speaks about NASA Science under the National Space Exploration Campaign during a keynote at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington.

JSC2001-E-23201 (26 July 2001) --- Astronaut Patrick G. Forrester, STS-105 mission specialist, explains some of his anticipated duties during a joint shuttle-station pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC).

JSC2001-E-23203 (26 July 2001) --- Astronaut Frederick W. Sturckow, STS-105 pilot, fields a question during a joint shuttle-station pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC).

David Blake, principal investigator for Curiosity's Chemistry and Mineralogy investigation at NASA's Ames Research Center in Calif., speaks at a news conference presenting findings of the Curiosity rover's analysis of the first sample of rock powder collected on Mars, Tuesday, March 12, 2013 in Washington. The rock sample collected shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.

Portaits; Kepler Science Group - Doug Caldwell

IRIS MMOC (conrol room) John Marmie, Engineering Project Management, NASA Ames

JSC2001-E-25112 (16 August 2001) --- Flight director John Shannon studies data at his console in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houstons Mission Control Center (MCC) during the first of two scheduled space walks while Discovery was docked to the International Space Station (ISS).

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - During a news conference at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA officials and university investigators outlined science plans for the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission. Briefing participants included Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.MAVEN is being prepared for its scheduled launch on Nov 18, 2013 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Positioned in an orbit above the Red Planet, MAVEN will study the upper atmosphere of Mars in unprecedented detail.

PHOTO DATE: 01-26-11LOCATION: Bldg 2SUBJECT: Expedition 27 press conference with NASA astronaut Ron Garan and his crewmates, Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Samokutyayev and Andrei Borisenko

Ken Jucks, OCO-2 program scientist, NASA Headquarters talks during an Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) science briefing, Sunday, June 29, 2014, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. OCO-2 will measure the global distribution of carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earths climate. OCO-2 is set to launch on July 1, 2014 at 2:59 a.m. PDT.

STS-125 Mission Specialist Mike Massimino makes comments about the STS-125 mission to the Hubble Space Telescope during a visit by the crew to the Embassy of Italy in Washington, Thursday, July 23, 2009.

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - David Crisp, Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 science team leader at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, participates in a mission science briefing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California prior to the launch of the observatory, or OCO-2.Launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex 2 is scheduled for 5:56 a.m. EDT on July 1. OCO-2 is NASAs first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earths climate. OCO-2 will provide a new tool for understanding the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide emissions and the natural "sinks" that absorb carbon dioxide and help control its buildup. The observatory will measure the global geographic distribution of these sources and sinks and study their changes over time.

JSC2006-E-34265 (11 Aug. 2006) --- Astronaut Daniel C. Burbank, STS-115 mission specialist, responds to a question from the media during a pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center.

Date: 12-05-11Location: Bldg 17, Food LabSubject: Expedition 34 Soyuz crew Tom Marshburn and Chris Hadfield during their food tasting

STS-132 Press Conference. Photo Date: May 3, 2010. Location: Building 2N, Press Conference Room.

Andrew RushbyKepler/K2 Team, Official NASA Photo

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Steve Altemus, shuttle test director at KSC, provides expert information to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. Over the course of two days, the Board's chairman, retired Navy Admiral Harold W. "Hal" Gehman Jr., and other board members have been hearing from experts discussing the role of the Kennedy Space Center in the Shuttle Program, Shuttle Safety and Debris Collection, Layout and Analysis and Forensic Metallurgy.

Cassini program manager at JPL, Earl Maize speaks during a press conference previewing Cassini's End of Mission, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Since its arrival in 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission has been a discovery machine, revolutionizing our knowledge of the Saturn system and captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity. On Sept. 15, 2017, operators will deliberately plunge the spacecraft into Saturn, as Cassini gathered science until the end. The plunge” ensures Saturn’s moons will remain pristine for future exploration. During Cassini’s final days, mission team members from all around the world gathered at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to celebrate the achievements of this historic mission.

Kepler Project Team member David Koch

STS-128 Press Conference. Photo Date: August 13, 2009. Location: Bldg. 2 - Rm 122 Press Conference.

NASA and science investigators from MIT participate in a science briefing for the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in the Press Site auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. George Ricker, TESS principal investigator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, answered questions during the briefing. TESS is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. The satellite will survey the nearest and brightest stars for two years to search for transiting exoplanets. TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 16.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Ernesto Rodriquez, ISS RapidScat project scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, briefs media representatives in Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium in preparation for the launch of the SpaceX CRS-4 mission to resupply the International Space Station. Rodriquez is a member of the ISS Earth Science: Tracking Ocean Winds Panel.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 spacecrafts 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.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Dr. Steve Squyres, of Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) suite of science instruments, takes part in a science briefing for the media. NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers are designed to study the history of water on Mars. These robotic geologists are equipped with a robotic arm, a drilling tool, three spectrometers, and four pairs of cameras that allow them to have a human-like, 3D view of the terrain. Each rover could travel as far as 100 meters in one day to act as Mars scientists' eyes and hands, exploring an environment where humans are not yet able to go. MER-A is scheduled to launch on June 8 at 2:06 p.m. EDT, with two launch opportunities each day during a launch period that closes on June 24.

PHOTO DATE:04-23-09LOCATION: PRESS BRIEFING ROOMSUBJECT: Photographic coverage of STS-125 Press Conference

Jim Free, association administrator, Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, participates in a prelaunch media briefing on the role of industry in advancing human exploration on Aug. 26, 2022, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as the agency prepares for launch of Artemis I scheduled for Aug. 29, at 8:33 a.m. EDT from Kennedys Launch Complex 39B. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.

Dr Chris McKay presents a Director's Colloquium to Ames staff and summer interns on 'Missions to Investigate the Polar Ice of Mars Phoenix and Beyond'

PHOTO DATE:04-23-09LOCATION: PRESS BRIEFING ROOMSUBJECT: Photographic coverage of STS-125 Press Conference

Astrobiology Conference 2002

NASA and industry leaders speak to NASA Social participants about the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in the Press Site auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Speaking to the group is Tom Barclay, TESS scientist, NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. TESS is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. The satellite will survey the nearest and brightest stars for two years to search for transiting exoplanets. TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 16.

Sam Ortega, NASA program manager for Centennial Challenges, is seen during the 2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge, Thursday, June 12, 2014, at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass. Eighteen teams are competing for a $1.5 million NASA prize purse. Teams will be required to demonstrate autonomous robots that can locate and collect samples from a wide and varied terrain, operating without human control. The objective of this NASA-WPI Centennial Challenge is to encourage innovations in autonomous navigation and robotics technologies. Innovations stemming from the challenge may improve NASA's capability to explore a variety of destinations in space, as well as enhance the nation's robotic technology for use in industries and applications on Earth.

Date: 09-25-14Location: Bldg 4NW, ISS MockupSubject: Expedition 48 crew member and cosmonaut (Soyuz 46) Aleksey Ovchinin during ISS Habitat Equalization & Process 22105 training with instructor Scott Weinstein

PHOTO DATE: 03-18-14LOCATION: Bldg. 2s - PAO Studio B SUBJECT: Expedition 41 (Soyuz 39) press conference with Maxim Suraev, Alexander Gerst and Reid Wiseman.

JSC2001-E-23192 (26 July 2001) --- Cosmonaut Vladimir N. Dezhurov, Expedition Three flight engineer representing Rosaviakosmos, ponders a question during a pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC). The station crew members were later joined by the STS-105 crew on the dais. All seven men are to be launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on August 9.

S85-40173 (5 Sept. 1985) --- In Johnson Space Centers (JSC) Astronaut Office, astronaut F. Richard (Dick) Scobee, STS-51L mission commander, takes a break from training for his upcoming space mission. EDITORS NOTE The STS-51L crew members lost their lives in the space shuttle Challenger accident moments after launch on Jan. 28, 1986 from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC).

JSC2001-E-23191 (26 July 2001) --- Astronaut Frank L. Culbertson, Jr., Expedition Three mission commander, responds to a query during a pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC). The station crew members were later joined by the STS-105 crew on the dais. All seven men are to be launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on August 9.

JSC2012-E-237346 (5 Nov. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 38/39 flight engineer, is pictured during a training session in the virtual reality lab in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

John Blevins, Space Launch System chief engineer, participates in a prelaunch media briefing following a mission management team meeting for Artemis I on Sept. 1, 2022, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Artemis I is scheduled to launch at 2:17 p.m. EDT on Sept. 3, from Kennedys Launch Complex 39B. Launch was waved off on Aug. 29 due to an issue during tanking. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate NASAs capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.

Alan Stern, Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate HQ addressing Ames staff

From left, Dr. Howard Levine, project specialist, and Bryan Onate, program manager, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, discusses the Advanced Plant Habitat during a "What's on Board" science briefing to NASA Social participants at Kennedy. The briefing is for Orbital ATK's seventh commercial resupply services mission, CRS-7, to the International Space Station. Orbital ATK's Cygnus pressurized cargo module is set to launch on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on April 18. Liftoff is scheduled for 11:11 a.m. EDT.

Matt Wallace, deputy project manager, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, participates in a Mars 2020 post-launch news conference at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 30, 2020. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:50 a.m. EDT, carrying the agencys Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter. The rover is part of NASAs Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.

Olivier Barnouin (US Instrument Scientist, Johns Hopkins University/APL) discusses the OSIRIS-REx mission, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018 at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

NASA and industry leaders speak to NASA Social participants about the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in the Press Site auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Speaking to the group is Zach Berta-Thompson, assistant professor, University of Colorado Boulder. TESS is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. The satellite will survey the nearest and brightest stars for two years to search for transiting exoplanets. TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 16.

A science briefing for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T) is held on Feb. 25, 2022, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Daniel Gall, Advanced Baseline Imager chief systems engineer, Space and Airborne Systems, L3 Harris Technologies, participates in the briefing. GOES-T is scheduled to lift off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on March 1, 2022, at 4:38 p.m. GOES-T is the third satellite in the GOES-R series that will continue to help meteorologists observe and predict local weather events that affect public safety. The launch is being managed by NASAs Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Americas multi-user spaceport.

Ralf Zimmerman, head of Moon programs and Orion European Service Module, Airbus,participates in a prelaunch media briefing on the role of industry in advancing human exploration on Aug. 26, 2022, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as the agency prepares for launch of Artemis I scheduled for Aug. 29, at 8:33 a.m. EDT from Kennedys Launch Complex 39B. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.

STS-132 Press Conference. Photo Date: May 3, 2010. Location: Building 2N, Press Conference Room.

Psyche Prelaunch News Conference . Henry Stone, Psyche project manager, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, participates in a Psyche mission prelaunch news conference at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Psyche is the first mission to explore an asteroid with a surface that likely contains substantial amounts of metal rather than rock or ice. Liftoff of NASAs Psyche spacecraft, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, is targeted for 10:16 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A.

JPSS-2/LOFTID Prelaunch News Conference. Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NASAs Space Technology Mission Directorate, participates in a prelaunch news conference for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) and NASA Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) technology demonstration at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Oct. 28, 2022. JPSS-2 is the third satellite in the polar satellite series and is expected to capture data to improve weather forecasts, helping scientists predict and prepare for extreme weather events and climate change. JPSS-2 is scheduled to launch at 2:25 a.m. PDT Tuesday, Nov. 1, on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Launching with JPSS-2 is NASAs LOFTID technology demonstration. After JPSS-2 safely reaches orbit, LOFTID will follow a re-entry trajectory from low-Earth orbit t

DATE: 9-20-11LOCATION: Bldg. 2N, Press Conf. RoomSUBJECT: Soyuz 29 Crew News Conference at JSC (Don Pettit, Andre Kuipers (ESA), Oleg Kononenko (RSA) )

New Horizons project scientist Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory speaks about the Kuiper Belt during an overview of the New Horizons Mission, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018 at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

Senior Earth Scientist Dr. Compton Tucker talks about the new climate siumulation facility.

Ken Edgett, principal investigator, MAHLI Camera, Mars Exploration Program, discusses what weve learned from Curiosity and the other Mars rovers during a “Mars Up Close” panel discussion, Tuesday, August 5, 2014, at the National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington.

Date: 07-26-12Location: Bldg 2, Press Conf. RoomSubject: Expedition 34 press conference with crew members Novitskiy, Tarelkin and Kevin Ford

Principal investigator, Mastcam-Z instrument, Arizona State University, Tempe, Jim Bell, gives remarks via remote during a NASA Perseverance rover mission science overview, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The Perseverance Mars rover is due to land on Mars Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. A key objective for Perseverances mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planets geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.

PHOTO DATE: 09-08-14LOCATION: Building 16N/1040 - SES Alpha-Cupola SUBJECT: ESA Astronaut Timothy Peake on behalf of ESA prior to FF RNDZ ADV 3 training with Kopra and Wilmore.

JSC2002-E-36215 (6 September 2002) --- Astronaut Piers J. Sellers, STS-112 mission specialist, fields a question during a pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC).

Pete Schultz, EPOXI scientist from Brown University, makes a point during a press conference, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The press conference was held to discuss the Nov. 4 successful flyby of Comet Hartley 2 by NASA's EPOXI Mission Spacecraft. Images from the flyby provided scientists the most extensive observations of a comet in history.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - MARINE ACOUSTICS LECTURE

Directors Colloquium Science Seminar by John Coates, Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of California, Berkeley, on Microbial Perchlorate Reduction. The discovery of perchlorate in soils at the Phoenix Landing site, makes this type of organisms interesting analogues to potential life on Mars.

Perseverance deputy project scientist, JPL, Ken Williford, gives remarks via remote during a NASA Perseverance rover mission science overview, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The Perseverance Mars rover is due to land on Mars Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. A key objective for Perseverances mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planets geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.

PHOTO DATE: 03-09-10LOCATION: Bldg 2NSUBJECT: STS-131 press conference

Head of the Operational Technical Team of Energia Sergey Malikhov delivers his report during a meeting to discuss the readiness for the landing of Expedition 57 crew members Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Auñón-Chancellor, Gerst, and Prokopyev are returning after 197 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 56 and 57 crews onboard the International Space Station.

NASA Astronaut and STS-125 Mission Pilot Scott Altman prepares to give a presentation with fellow STS-125 shuttle mission crew members at the NASA Tweetup event held at NASA Headquarters, July 21, 2009 in Washington. Nearly 200 of NASAs Twitter followers are in attendance.

Date: 03-20-12Location: Bldg 2, Briefing RoomSubject: Expedition 32/33 Crew News Conference.Photograher: James Blair

DATE: 9-3-14LOCATION: NBL - MU-176SUBJECT: ESA Astronaut Tim Peaks and US Astronaut Tim Kopra during ISS EVA MAINT 3 1G training with instructor Sandy Moore.

Steven Pawson, Chief of the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, speaks about NASA's observations of Earth during Sneak Peek Friday at the USA Science and Engineering Festival, Friday, April 6, 2018 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. The festival is open to the public April 7-8.

Psyche Prelaunch News Conference . NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana participates in a Psyche mission prelaunch news conference at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Psyche is the first mission to explore an asteroid with a surface that likely contains substantial amounts of metal rather than rock or ice. Liftoff of NASAs Psyche spacecraft, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, is targeted for 10:16 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A.

Michael Ryschkewitsch,head of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Space Exploration Sector, is seen during a press conference after the team received confirmation from the New Horizons spacecraft that it has completed the flyby of Ultima Thule, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

Dr. Mark Kasevich, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University presents a Director's Colloquium to Ames staff on 'Atom Interferometry'

Rob Grover, EDL Phase Lead, NASA JPL, holds a jar of good-luck peanuts as he and other Mars InSight team members monitor the status of the lander prior to it touching down on Mars, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 inside the Mission Support Area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.

Madrid, 11/17/2015. Interview with James Green, director of NASA's planetary science division. Photo: Ignacio Gil ARCHDC.

Randy Lillard, Program Executive for Technology Demonstration Missions of NASA's Space Technology Mission DIrectorate, speaks during an Exploration Forum showcasing NASA's human exploration path to Mars in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters on Tuesday, April 29, 2014.

PHOTO DATE: 10-21-10LOCATION: Bldg 2NSUBJECT: STS-133 crew press conference

Pam Sullivan, NASA's GOES-R flight director, left, and A.J. Sandora, Lockheed Martin's GOES-R Series Mechanical Operations Assembly, Test and Launch Operations (ATLO) manager, speak to members of social media in the Kennedy Space Centers Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's, or NOAA's, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. The spacecraft is the second satellite in a series of next-generation NOAA weather satellites. It will launch to a geostationary position over the U.S. to provide images of storms and help predict weather forecasts, severe weather outlooks, watches, warnings, lightning conditions and longer-term forecasting. GOES-S is slated to lift off at 5:02 p.m. EST on March 1, 2018 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

David Jarrett, GRACE-FO program executive in the Earth Science Division at NASA Headquarters, left, and Phil Morton, NASA GRACE-FO project manager at JPL, discuss the upcoming launch of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission with Karen Fox of NASA's Office of Communications, Monday, April 30, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The twin GRACE-FO spacecraft will measure and monitor monthly changes in how mass is redistributed within and among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land and ice sheets, as well as within Earth itself.

Psyche Prelaunch News Conference . Tim Dunn, senior launch director, NASAs Launch Services Program, participates in a Psyche mission prelaunch news conference at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Psyche is the first mission to explore an asteroid with a surface that likely contains substantial amounts of metal rather than rock or ice. Liftoff of NASAs Psyche spacecraft, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, is targeted for 10:16 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, from Kennedys Launch Complex 39A.

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