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NASA Airborne Science Program Missions is sponsored by NASA. NASA's Airborne Science Program conducts missions to collect data on atmospheric phenomena, providing opportunities for collaboration and data sharing with external researchers.

International Space Station NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Primary Mirror Gets Last Look NASA’s X-59 Prepares for First Supersonic Flight NASA Uses Mineralogical Marker to Understand Ancient Martian Climate Upcoming Launches and Landings Communicating with Missions James Webb Space Telescope International Space Station Earth Science Researchers Asteroids, Comets & Meteors The Search for Life in the Universe Astrophysics & Space Science Biological & Physical Sciences Human Space Travel Research Technology Transfer & Spinoffs Technology Living in Space Manufacturing and Materials For Colleges and Universities Requests for Exhibits, Artifacts, or Speakers NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Primary Mirror Gets Last Look NASA’s X-59 Prepares for First Supersonic Flight Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster Growing Stem Cells in Space to Improve Cancer and Disease Treatments Studying Pneumonia in Space for Heart Health on Earth Painting the Growing Season in the Maize Triangle How NASA Uses Light to Detect Waste From Mines A Shift in What’s Shaping U.S. Landscapes NASA Uses Mineralogical Marker to Understand Ancient Martian Climate NASA’s AWE Completes Mission to Study Earth’s Effect on Space Weather NASA’s Psyche Mission Aces Mars Flyby, Targets Metal-Rich Asteroid NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Primary Mirror Gets Last Look Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster NASA’s Roman Mission Preps to Unveil New Populations of Faraway Worlds Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster Painting the Growing Season in the Maize Triangle NASA Uses Mineralogical Marker to Understand Ancient Martian Climate NASA’s X-59 Prepares for First Supersonic Flight Keeping NASA Flying: Ground Crews Ensure Aircraft Readiness NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics: Winning Student Teams Engineering Lunar Future Integrated Rotating Detonation Engine System (InRoDES) NASA Releases Technology Priorities to Energize Space Industry Space Out This Summer with Variety of NASA STEM Activities Growing Stem Cells in Space to Improve Cancer and Disease Treatments NASA Develops Sensor to Improve Firefighter Safety National Institutes of Health Nutrition Education Challenge La NASA anuncia la cobertura de la misión lunar Artemis II Agenda diaria de la misión a la Luna de Artemis II de la NASA La NASA refuerza Artemis: añade una misión y perfecciona su arquitectura general 2026 Astrophysics Small Explorer Announcement of Opportunity Update SMD’s Astrophysics Division’s (APD) Explorers Program continues to plan on releasing an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) entitled “2026 Astrophysics Small Explorer (SMEX)” during the 2nd Quarter of CY 2026.

The AO Cost Cap will be increased to $190M in FY 2026 dollars (FY26$) from $170M in FY 2025 dollars (FY25$) in the draft AO. Along with answers to questions previously submitted by the Community, a copy of the full community announcement update also has been posted at https://explorers. larc.

nasa. gov/APSMEX26/SMEX/index. html Questions and/or comments may be addressed to John Wisniewski, Astrophysics Small Explorers Program Lead Scientist at john.

p. wisniewski@nasa. gov , and E.

Lucien Cox, Astrophysics Small Explorers Program Executive, elbert. l. cox@nasa.

gov . Earth Venture Orbital Solicitation Advance Notice NASA’s Science Mission Directorate intends to solicit the first in a series of innovative, Principal Investigator (PI)-led, cost-capped investigations for operations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The full announcement can be found at https://essp.

larc. nasa. gov/EVO-1 This Earth Venture Orbital (EVO) solicitation will focus on: Strategic use of commercial capabilities NASA encourages feedback in response to this Community Announcement.

Questions or comments about this EVO-1 Community Announcement should be submitted by April 23, 2026. The received questions and answers will be posted on the EVO-1 Acquisition Homepage at https://essp. larc.

nasa. gov/EVO-1 For questions or comments, please contact: Michael Kaszyca, NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) Program Office Deputy Program Manager, michael. kaszyca@nasa.

gov Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, Program Scientist, nadya@nasa. gov Release of Announcements for Partnership Proposals and an RFIs for Earth Science NASA has issued the following AFPPs and RFI: Announcement for Partnership Proposals (AFPP): Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) https://go. nasa.

gov/afppcygnss Announcement for Partnership Proposals (AFPP): Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) https://go. nasa. gov/afppoco2 Request For Information (RFI): Terra, Aqua, and Aura (TAA) Missions https://go.

nasa. gov/rfitaam Technical questions may be directed to Beth Weinstein, Deputy Associate Director for Flight via hq-esdpartnerships@mail. nasa.

gov New Frontiers 5 AO Update NASA received comments on the draft New Frontiers 5 Announcement of Opportunity in 2023. The current estimated release of final AO is no earlier than 2026. Comments provided in response to that draft will feed into development of the AO targeted for release no earlier than 2026.

To assist proposers, NASA plans to share the major policies for the next AO approximately 18 months before the targeted release of the AO. Further information will be posted when it is available on the New Frontiers Program Acquisition Website hosted by the Science Office for Mission Assessments (SOMA) at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) at https://newfrontiers. larc.

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gov/NF5/ Private Sector Activities in Astrobiology, Planetary Protection, and Space Biology RFI: NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) has released a new Request for Information (RFI) entitled, Private Sector Activities in Astrobiology, Planetary Protection, and Space Biology , seeking expressions of interest from U.S. private sector, academic, nonprofit, and government organizations interested in potential partnerships in astrobiology, planetary protection, and space biology.

This RFI is intended to help NASA identify potential collaborators who can contribute to advancing research, technology development, and applications that support our broader efforts to understand the origins, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe. Please note that the RFI is not a solicitation. NASA does not intend to award contracts, grants, cooperative agreements or Space Act Agreements.

This RFI is voluntary and strictly for planning purposes. Please visit https://go. nasa.

gov/PSPRFI to download a copy of the full RFI. The RFI will be open for at least 60 days following the date of release. All responses must be submitted through the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES) by August 10, 2026, to be considered.

Other inquiries may be submitted (using subject line “PSP RFI”) by email to: Email: rebecca. l. mccauleyrench@nasa.

gov Information on Future Portal for Archiving NASA-funded Accepted Manuscripts The NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program is developing an external submission portal for NASA-funded investigators to submit Accepted Manuscripts and other STI products. The portal is expected to be available later this summer.

The external portal will be used in place of the National Institutes of Health Manuscripts System (NIHMS), for grant and cooperative agreement recipients. The external portal will provide a more direct and streamlined Accepted Manuscript submission process for recipients. The STI Program will send communications prior to the start date with instructions and reminders.

As part of this transition, an information page about the new portal is available on the STI Program website which will be updated throughout the process: https://sti. nasa. gov/new-external-submission-portal/ .

The STI Program invites comments and questions about this new external manuscript submission portal via the Research Access Help Desk at https://sti. nasa. gov/sti-contact-form/?

RequestType=ResearchAccess . Dual-Anonymous Peer Review In our "ROSES" research solicitation we have expanded the use of dual-anonymous peer review in which, not only are proposers not told the identity their reviewers, the reviewers are not told the identity of the proposers (until after they have evaluated the scientific merit of all of the anonymized proposals). To learn more about dual-anonymous peer review see https://science.

nasa. gov/researchers/dual-anonymous-peer-review . In our "ROSES" research solicitation we have expanded the number of programs with no fixed due date.

To these no due date programs (including seven in planetary science), proposals may be submitted at any time without any preliminary statement such as a Notice of Intent or Step-1 proposal. For more information see https://science. nasa.

gov/researchers/NoDD . Need Advice about ROSES and proposal writing? On the library and useful links page we have resources that may be useful to those who are new to proposing to ROSES: Links to YouTube versions of presentations given at Goddard in February 2022 at https://youtu.

be/62QqJ2Nnlzc and older by Max Bernstein (NASA HQ) and Christina Richey (JPL) about proposal writing. Both the video of Dr. Richey (thanks to the SETI Institute) and the video of Max Bernstein (thanks to NASA Ames Research Center). Other information that maybe useful to early career/ potential new PIs may be found at https://science.

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