NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will greet space shuttle Discovery’s astronauts on Wednesday after the crew’s planned landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

For the first time, NASA astronauts aboard an orbiting spacecraft were awakened by a live performance from Mission Control, as Todd Park Mohr and three other members of Big Head Todd and the Monsters performed “Blue Sky” live at 2:23 a.m. CST.

NASA will preview the final space shuttle missions during media events on Wednesday, March 23, and Thursday, March 24, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA awarded Great Southern Engineering of Trinity, Ala., a contract to provide for miscellaneous environmental engineering services.

U.S. high school students are invited to participate in NASA’s Interdisciplinary National Science Program Incorporating Research Experience, or INSPIRE, through an online learning community. INSPIRE is designed to encourage students in ninth through 12th grades to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Three crew members launching in May to live and work aboard the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. CST on Monday, March 21, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA’s Associate Administrator for Space Operations Bill Gerstenmaier and other NASA officials are scheduled to speak April 6 and 7 at the International Space Station and Mars Conference.

Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to return to Earth for the final time on Wednesday, March 9, completing a 13-day mission to outfit the International Space Station.

The six astronauts who will launch aboard space shuttle Endeavour’s final mission in April will answer media questions on Wednesday, March 9, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA’s Glory mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Friday at 5:09:45 a.m. EST failed to reach orbit.