The Government-Industry Data Exchange Program’s “Know Your Part” campaign promotes this valuable tool to NASA engineers and procurement professionals to ensure that we use the best parts on our spacecraft and technology.

NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection is looking toward the future of solar system exploration and now has a new logo to represent its mission effectively.

The updated logo, designed in partnership with the NASA Safety Center, embodies exploration of the solar system while emphasizing the importance of Planetary Protection (PP) and its connection to enabling science with safety at the forefront.

The logo also highlights the focus on Earth’s biosphere while embracing and supplementing the traditional spore assay with metagenomics methods. Additionally, it captures both a robotic and crew mission portfolio through its design.

The NASA Workmanship training credential extension web tool was created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which severely disrupted operations at NASA training centers. These disruptions made it challenging for personnel to renew their Workmanship training credentials, which typically expire after two years. To mitigate the risks associated with personnel continuing work with expired credentials, NASA initially issued memos extending credential validity. However, as the pandemic's impact persisted, a more sustainable solution was needed, leading to the development of the web tool.