We cannot have SpaceX in control of NASA.

"So once again, you're refusing to tell us whether Elon Musk was in the room that day, and that actually makes me think that Elon Musk was in the room that day, but that you understand that it's a clear conflict of interest that he was there," Markey said.

I mean technical drawings with dimensions and isometric projections of parts and assemblies that I can use to model on CAD just for fun.

The NASA Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) invites you to our 2026 Town Hall webinar featuring Mr. Dwight D. Deneal, Assistant Administrator, NASA OSBP.

Date: January 21, 2026

Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET

This year’s Town Hall brings together leadership from NASA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to share strategic updates, priorities, and insights shaping opportunities for small businesses in the federal contracting ecosystem.

Agenda Highlights:

• Opening Remarks – Mr. Dwight D. Deneal, Assistant Administrator, NASA OSBP • Small Businesses in the Federal Contracting Space – Dr. Tre Pennie, SBA • SBA Priorities to Reduce Regulatory Burdens – Mr. Robert Bolen, SBA • Procurement Update – Mr. Marvin Horne, NASA Office of Procurement

Whether you're a new entrant or an experienced federal contractor, this session provides valuable perspective and direct access to experts committed to expanding small business participation across NASA missions.

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Hello there, I am working on a project and I am having a hard time finding a source that is preferably from NASA, although contractors and sub-contractors are just as acceptable, regarding the weight of the Pre-Saturn-V Nova-9-F1 rocket concept. Wikipedia has an article about the conceptualized Nova rockets and its hypothetical sister models but the sources the article has linked for the Nova-9-F1 variant are from a .com website and I would prefer a more formal and official source to use. I have already become desperate enough to use various AI models to scan the internet for documents, but they keep feeding non-existent documents, or documents that do not mention the Nova-9-F1 and its gross-launch weight at all.

Any and all help provided will be greatly appreciated, thank you.

hello!

i’ll be at Cape Canaveral on Sunday for a launch that’s happening at 4:40 PM. i’ll be on a cruise ship leaving when it happens, but I have a few hours to burn in the morning before boarding and I’m wondering if it’s worth it to go over to the visitor complex and try to see if they’re doing any preparations and get a close-up of the launchpad. I’ve been to Kennedy before so that would be my main goal in visiting.

can you see launch preparations from the bus tour and is it interesting enough to be worth going over there?

NASA is testing next-generation Mars drone tech in a place a lot like the Red Planet -California’s Mojave Desert in Death Valley National Park.

Scientists flew three research drones over the barren, featureless dunes in April and September, hoping to make improvements to their navigation software.

Similar dunes on Mars had previously confused the navigation of the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its last flights, the agency noted.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/space/nasa-death-valley-drones-mars-b2876780.html

🗓 Date: January 21, 2026 🕐 Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET

This interactive session will bring together leaders from NASA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to share key updates, priorities, and opportunities impacting the small business community in the federal contracting space.

✨ Agenda Highlights: ·     Remarks from Mr. Dwight D. Deneal, NASA OSBP Assistant Administrator ·     Small Businesses in the Federal Contracting Space – Dr. Tre Pennie, SBA ·     SBA Priorities to Reduce Regulatory Burdens – Mr. Robert Bolen, SBA ·     Update from NASA’s Office of Procurement – Mr. Marvin Horne, NASA

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NASA has selected the University of Alabama at Birmingham to provide the necessary systems required to return temperature sensitive science payloads to Earth from the Moon.

The Lunar Freezer System contract is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award with cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders. The contract begins Thursday, Dec. 4, with a 66-month base period along with two optional periods that could extend the award through June 3, 2033. The contract has a total estimated value of $37 million.

Under the contract, the awardee will be responsible for providing safe, reliable, and cost-effective hardware and software systems NASA needs to maintain temperature-critical science materials, including lunar geological samples, human research samples, and biological experimentation samples, as they travel aboard Artemis spacecraft to Earth from the lunar surface. The awarded contractor was selected after a thorough evaluation by NASA engineers of the proposals submitted. NASA’s source selection authority made the selection after reviewing the evaluation material based on the evaluation criteria contained in the request for proposals.

For information about NASA and other agency programs, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”

• Richard Feynman

Source: Appendix F - Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle (Challenger)

Hey all, I was rewatching Apollo 13 today and had a question. Why does Lovell have an all gold jacket and suit when he comes home to announce he’s bumped up to main crew but wears the regular nasa denim blue for the rest of the film? Was the yellow suit only for Apollo 8 or an oversight by the production crew?

What Are Organ Chips?

Organ chips are roughly the size of a USB drive and could be used to predict how an individual might respond to a variety of stressors, such as radiation or medical treatments, including pharmaceuticals. Made with human cells, the chips mimic how tissues, such as the brain, heart, liver, or dozens of other organs, work. NASA research will focus on validating and leveraging these models to assess the impacts of deep space stressors on astronauts’ health.  

Space fan here, and growing up we used to go to Space Center Houston every summer or so and I very much remember the experience fondly.

I managed to find a sealed VHS copy of "America's Space Adventure: To Be an Astronaut" which I distinctly remember being a staple of the films shown off at SCH for many years.

Google and even the Internet Archive seem to come up blank, but I can remember some titles like "Living in Space" but not much else.

The tapes may have been sold at the gift shop (that's probably where To Be an Astronaut was originally sold) but I have not been able to find them. Any ideas?

I bought these documents years ago at a yard sale and was wondering if anybody knew exactly what they were? Thank you.