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With just over three years remaining to the 2024 goal, the GAO found that NASA lacks insight into the cost and schedules of some of its largest lunar programs because some programs have not established cost and schedule estimates or baselines.
NASA and Boeing plan to launch the OFT-2 Starliner on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V at 2:53 p.m. Eastern on 2021-07-30.
NASA approved plans to launch a SpaceX commercial crew mission to the International Space Station pending resolution of one minor issue with the Falcon 9 rocket.
NASA expects to launch the first two Gateway modules, the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in 2024 under a contract awarded 2021-02-09.
Jim Bridenstine led partnering efforts under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program that resupplied the International Space Station with American rockets for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.
NASA’s strategic workforce planning effort foresees reducing the number of permanent full-time equivalent positions by 10% over five years while allowing centers to hire staff as needed for the duration of specific projects.
NASA and Boeing plan to launch the CST-100 Starliner on a second uncrewed test flight no earlier than 2021-04-02.
Kam Ghaffarian founded and led Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, which became NASA’s second-largest engineering services contractor before being acquired by KBR in 2018.
The 2021-01-17 LauncherOne mission successfully deployed 10 payloads for NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP).
NASA is currently authorized to operate the International Space Station through 2024.
If the 2021-01-17 hotfire date holds, the test will take place almost exactly one year after NASA installed the core stage on the B-2 test stand at Stennis.
The updated National Space Policy released 2020-12-09 directs OSTP, in cooperation with NASA and other agencies, to develop new planetary protection guidelines working with scientific, commercial, and international partners.
NASA plans to launch the Lucy mission in October 2021 as the first mission to visit Jupiter Trojans.
Starliner-1, the first operational Starliner mission, is scheduled to launch no earlier than the end of 2021 with NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada, and Jeanette Epps plus a fourth crew member to be assigned.
NASA is developing new procedures for loading liquid oxygen into the SLS core stage and is tentatively planning to reschedule the wet dress rehearsal for the week of 2020-12-14.
The Senate fiscal year 2021 bill provides NASA with its highest funding level in nominal dollars.
NASA is delaying the launch of the first operational SpaceX commercial crew mission Crew-1 to the first half of November to provide more time to review a problem observed during a recent Falcon 9 launch attempt.
NASA assigned Jeanette Epps to the first operational CST-100 Starliner mission to the International Space Station on 2020-08-25.
Rocket Lab won a contract from NASA in February to launch the CAPSTONE cubesat mission to the moon.
NASA’s Demo-2 mission successfully flew two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station and returned them to Earth on 2020-08-02 after a two-month mission.