Naming a mountain on the Moon, watching and helping from space, and a sample wide shot from Mars … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
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Have humans ever visited Mars? Not yet, but we’ve sent lots of rovers, landers and orbiters to explore the Red Planet.
NASA has two operating rovers — Curiosity and Perseverance — which are currently traversing the Martian terrain in search of rocks that could teach us about Mars’ ancient past. And with NASA Artemis, we’re working on new tech that could one day get humans to Mars. NASA scientist Dr. Mitch Schulte has more. https://mars.nasa.gov/
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Our #Crew6 mission to the International Space Station is targeted for liftoff at 2:07 a.m. EST (0607 UTC) on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, as well as UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, will launch aboard their Dragon Endeavour spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Visit our Crew-6 blog for the latest mission updates: https://blogs.nasa.gov/crew-6/
This will be the fourth trip to space for Bowen, the Crew-6 mission commander, and the first space launch for the rest of the crew. They’ll spend approximately six months on the station, helping us learn how to live in space while conducting research to make life better back on Earth. Learn more about the mission, its crew, and some of the science they’ll be working on at https://go.nasa.gov/3jclMmJ.
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The Cardinal Heart experiment used three-dimensional engineered heart tissues, seen in this clip, to study the effects of microgravity on the human heart. The investigation, which took place on station in 2021, confirmed that microgravity exposure causes significant changes in heart cell function and gene expression that could lead to damage.
Scheduled to launch on NASA’s SpaceX CRS-27 resupply mission in March, Cardinal Heart 2.0 takes this research one step further to test whether certain drugs can reduce or prevent microgravity-induced changes—which could also enable the development of countermeasures for patients at high risk of developing heart disease back on Earth.
Learn more about how research aboard the International Space Station is helping our hearts beat strong: https://go.nasa.gov/3jR1KPf
News from around NASA this week:
Making space for all with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, celebrating the #DARTMission, and spotting a tiny asteroid with the James Webb Space Telescope.
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How do we communicate with spacecraft? For decades, satellites have beamed data back to Earth by way of radio waves, with a network of ground-based antennas collecting the incoming information. Now, we’re exploring laser communications, technology that will allow us to receive more data from farther than ever before — faster, too. NASA space communications expert Risha George tells us more: https://www.nasa.gov/lasercomms
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Astronauts Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) are performing a spacewalk on Thursday, Feb. 2, to carry on preparations the installing of brand new roll-out solar arrays, or iROSAs, outside the section later come early july. The latest arrays increases the orbiting laboratory’s energy capacity.
The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 8:15 a.m. EST (1315 UTC) and last about six . 5 hours. This is actually the 2nd spacewalk for both Mann and Wakata.
Follow our space station web log for lots more updates: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation
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Work doing outside the space station, honoring a couple of previous astronauts, and a milestone on Mars … a few of the stories to share with you about – recently at NASA!
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On Nov. 16, 2022, the Orion spacecraft established aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and embarked regarding #Artemis we mission toward Moon and straight back. Orion orbited the Moon, getting as close as 79 kilometers towards the lunar area, and effectively splashed back off to world 25.5 days down the road Dec. 11.
Four RS-25 machines and two five-segment solid rocket boosters provided above 8.8 million pounds of thrust for SLS during liftoff and journey. Many thanks partly to growth of a fresh RS-25 motor controller that checks engine wellness 50 times per second, engineers were able to gather more than 100 measurements on pressures, temperatures, flows, rates, and vibrations in the four RS-25 engines that aided energy Artemis we. The initial post-flight data indicates that all SLS systems done exceptionally and that the designs are ready to help a crewed journey on Artemis II.
The Artemis II mission brings united states nearer to developing a sustained human being existence on lunar surface and landing the first woman and very first person of color on the Moon.
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Is polar ice melting? The sobering answer is yes, therefore’s the top contributor to ocean degree increase. NASA scientist Dr. Brooke Medley tells united states how NASA studies the connection between ice sheets and ocean level to better comprehend our changing earth. Explore more: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ice-sheets/
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On Tuesday, Jan. 31 Vice President Kamala Harris awarded former NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Hurley and Behnken received the honor for bravery in NASA’s SpaceX Demonstration Mission-2 (Demo-2) toward Global Space Station in 2020.
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program started a fresh age of human spaceflight as United states astronauts established from United states soil for an American rocket to the Global Space Station. Behnken and Hurley travelled on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, which lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket on 30, 2020, from release elaborate 39A in Florida. This objective had been the last journey test for SpaceX, validating the company’s crew transport system, like the launch pad, rocket, spacecraft, and functional capabilities.
Once in orbit, Behnken and Hurley had been welcomed aboard the ISS, and became people regarding the Expedition 63 team. They performed tests on Crew Dragon as well as performing research as well as other tasks because of the universe team. Upon summary of the mission, the Crew Dragon autonomously undocked, re-entered our planet’s environment and splashed straight down simply off Florida’s Atlantic Coast. Demo-2 ended up being the last step before NASA’s Commercial Crew Program certified Crew Dragon for operational, long-duration missions towards the space station, enabling NASA to keep crucial research and technology investigations onboard the place.
To find out about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program check out: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html
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Honoring our fallen heroes, taking care of a nuclear option for area travel, as well as the next crewed objective to your universe … some of the tales to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
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Lessons discovered together with importance of a very good safety tradition had been talked about within NASA’s day’s Remembrance tasks to honor our fallen heroes. The panel included Administrator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Associate Administrator Bob Cabana.
In 2023, NASA Day of Remembrance falls on Thursday, Jan. 26. We shall never forget the teams of Apollo 1, Challenger STS-51L, and Columbia STS-107. https://www.nasa.gov/specials/dor2023/
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NASA remembers the crews of Apollo 1, space shuttles Challenger and Columbia during the agency’s Day of Remembrance on Jan. 26, 2023. Feb. 1 marks the 20th anniversary of the Columbia STS-107 accident.
NASA’s Day of Remembrance honors all members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery.
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Greenhouse gas emissions decreased a little during the first year of COVID, but not enough to make a lasting impact.
Less travel and cars on the road meant improved air quality. But greenhouse gases that cause climate change only decreased a little because we were still heating and cooling our homes, so these gases continued to build up in our atmosphere. NASA climate change scientist Lesley Ott tells us more about what scientists discovered.
Explore more about the unexpected effects the pandemic had on our atmosphere: https://go.nasa.gov/3D1MoO5
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Astronauts Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) will step outside the International Space Station for their first spacewalk to finish work preparing for solar array additions planned for this summer.
The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 8:15 a.m. EST (1315 UTC) and will last up to seven hours.
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Preparing for a more powerful space station, building a more fuel-efficient aircraft, and a way to possibly predict solar flares … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
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