Category: News
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Annual State of NASA Address, Media Budget Briefing Set for March 28
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will give the 2022 State of NASA address at 2 p.m. EDT on Monday, March 28, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The event will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. Nelson will highlight NASA’s plans to explore the Moon and Mars, address climate change, promote racial…
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NASA to Host Briefings, Interviews for Agency’s SpaceX Crew-4 Mission
A pair of news conferences on Thursday, March 31, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will highlight the agency’s upcoming SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station. The mission will be NASA’s latest crew rotation flight involving a U.S. commercial spacecraft carrying astronauts. The agency will hold a mission overview news conference at…
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United Poultry Concerns Urges Tractor Supply Company to Stop Selling Chicks & Ducklings
Practice Encourages the Spread of Avian Influenza and Salmonella Bacteria to People and Birds MACHIPONGO, Va. /PRNewswire/ – Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is sweeping the country, including backyard birds, reports the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. United Poultry Concerns , a nonprofit organization promoting the compassionate care of domesticated fowl, is calling upon the Tractor Supply Company to…
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PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK ADAPTIVE CLINICAL TRIAL ADDS NEW INVESTIGATIONAL TREATMENT AND ADDITIONAL SITES
Investigational Treatment From Novartis To Be Activated At Precision PromiseSM Clinical Trial Sites Across the Country, Including Five Additional Premier Cancer Institutions LOS ANGELES, March 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN), a leading nonprofit in the fight against pancreatic cancer, has announced the latest updates to its innovative adaptive clinical trial, Precision PromiseSM, including the addition of…
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FDA Issues Decisions on Additional E-Cigarette Products
Agency Permits Marketing of Certain Tobacco-Flavored Products, Denies Other Products; Additional Decisions on Popular Products Expected Soon Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took additional actions as part of the agency’s work to ensure any electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products available for sale have demonstrated that marketing of the products is appropriate for…
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NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Record-Setting US Astronaut Return
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are scheduled to end their mission aboard the International Space Station and return to Earth on Wednesday, March 30. Vande Hei, along with Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, will close the hatch to the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft to begin the journey back to Earth. The Soyuz will undock from the…
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NASA, ESA Assign Astronauts to Space Station Mission on Crew Dragon
NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) have selected two astronauts to launch on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli and ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, for the mission. Two mission specialists will be announced later, following review by NASA and its international partners. The mission…
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NASA to Host Axiom Mission 1 Flight Readiness Media Teleconference
NASA will host a media teleconference Friday, March 25, following the agency’s flight readiness review for the Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. This media briefing will focus on the readiness of the Ax-1 flight to visit the space station, including arrival, docking, in-orbit, and undocking operations at the…