NASA's Artemis I Moon Rocket: Roll to Pad

NASA's Artemis I Moon Rocket: Roll to Pad

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft atop arrived at Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for a final test before its Artemis I Moon mission. United Launch Alliance (ULA) under a collaborative partnership with Boeing, built the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) upper stage of the SLS rocket that will propel Orion to the Moon. 

Learn more about Artemis I at:

NASA's Artemis Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS)

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

NASA's Orion Spacecraft

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/about/index.html

Caption & Image Credit: United Launch Alliance (ULA)

Image Date: March 17, 2022

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IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica

IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory (or simply IceCube) is a neutrino observatory constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.

IceCube is the largest neutrino observatory in the world and consists of over five thousand optical detectors draped through a cubic kilometer of ice at the geographic South Pole. IceCube was built specifically to study cosmic neutrinos that come from outside our own solar system. Thanks to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, scientists have identified several types of cosmic structures that produce neutrinos. A new study estimates for the first time how likely a neutrino is to come from each source type, helping physicists understand more about these ghostly particles and how they are created in the universe.

Neutrinos are tiny, nearly massless elementary particles that travel through the universe at almost the speed of light. They were first made during the Big Bang and are produced today by fusion reactions inside stars (including our own Sun), by supernovae explosions when massive stars die, and by the violent transformations of matter and energy that happen around black holes.

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, or IceCube as it is commonly called, has detected over 100 cosmic neutrinos since its first full science run in 2011, and scientists have figured out where a few of them came from: a flaring blazar, a nearby Seyfert galaxy, and a tidal disruption event, the term for when a star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole and gets gobbled up by it.

IceCube is operated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and supported by the National Science Foundation.

Learn more: 

https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/4713

Story Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Image Credit: Benjamin Eberhardt

Release Date: March 14, 2022

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JPL and The Space Age: Destination Moon Documentary

JPL and The Space Age: Destination Moon Documentary

After the establishment of NASA in 1958, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s first major assignment was to explore the Moon, taking close up images before crash landing as part of a series of missions called Ranger. JPL, however, had grander plans.

The laboratory, having built and helped launch the first U.S. satellite into space, wanted to explore not only the Moon, but nearby planets. JPL would be humbled by a string of early failures that threatened the lab’s very future. “We didn’t know what we were doing,” one veteran JPL engineer confides in the program, “and there was no one around to tell us.”

Ironically, a successful (although barely so) flyby of Venus by Mariner 2 in 1962 would give the United States its first “first in space.” And after finally succeeding with its Ranger program, JPL would go on to manage the highly successful Surveyor missions that soft landed on the Moon, serving as pathfinders for the Apollo astronauts. Destination Moon relives JPL’s struggles and triumphs at the Moon and Venus.

Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Duration: 59 minutes

Release Date: March 15, 2022

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NASA Confirms 5,000 Planets—and Counting!

NASA Confirms 5,000 Planets—and Counting!

Using powerful telescopes, in space and on the ground, astronomers have now confirmed more than 5,000 exoplanets—planets beyond our solar system. However, it is just a fraction of the likely hundreds of billions of such planets in our Milky Way galaxy. 

As current and future telescopes continue to make discoveries, we may someday find potentially habitable planets—or even inhabited worlds. Many more discoveries await.

Learn more here: https://go.nasa.gov/3IptVLb

Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech

Duration: 1 minute, 35 seconds

Release Date: March 18, 2022

 

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Taming the Sky | European Southern Observatory

Taming the Sky | European Southern Observatory

Powerful laser beams leave Unit Telescope 4 at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), located in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Their destination? An upper layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, about 90 kilometers from the ground, rich in sodium atoms.

The color of the lasers is tuned to excite these atoms, making them shine brightly, like stars. Astronomers then use these artificial stars to calculate the blurring effect that Earth’s turbulent atmosphere creates on the light from astronomical objects. A deformable mirror uses this information to correct this blur in real time with a technique known as adaptive optics, which leads to much sharper observations.

This telescope, also known as Yepun, is the only one at the VLT equipped with a Laser Guide Star Facility. Each beam is 30 centimeters wide and packs 22 watts of power. For safety reasons, the system is equipped with cameras monitoring the part of the sky occupied by the lasers, so that when an airplane flying by is detected approaching this area, the lasers are promptly switched off. 

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/A. Ghizzi Panizza (www.albertoghizzipanizza.com)

Release Date: March 21, 2022

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Hubble Spies a Stunning Spiral

Hubble Spies a Stunning Spiral

This cosmic portrait—captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3—shows a stunning view of the spiral galaxy NGC 4571, which lies approximately 60 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. This constellation—whose name translates as Bernice’s Hair—was named after an Egyptian queen who lived more than 2200 years ago.

As majestic as spiral galaxies like NGC 4571 are, they are far from the largest structures known to astronomers. NGC 4571 is part of the Virgo cluster, which contains more than a thousand galaxies. This cluster is in turn part of the larger Virgo supercluster, which also encompasses the Local Group which contains our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Even larger than superclusters are galaxy filaments—the largest known structures in the Universe.

This image comes from a large program of observations designed to produce a treasure trove of combined observations from two great observatories: Hubble and ALMA. ALMA, The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, is a vast telescope consisting of 66 high-precision antennas high in the Chilean Andes, which together observe at wavelengths between infrared and radio waves. This allows ALMA to detect the clouds of cool interstellar dust which give rise to new stars. Hubble’s razor-sharp observations at ultraviolet wavelengths, meanwhile, allows astronomers to pinpoint the location of hot, luminous, newly formed stars. Together, the ALMA and Hubble observations provide a vital repository of data to astronomers studying star formation, as well as laying the groundwork for future science with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team

Release Date: March 21, 2022

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NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center 75th Anniversary: Autonomy

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center 75th Anniversary: Autonomy

NASA Armstrong’s Flight Research Center is honoring 75 years of advancing technology and science through flight. For the next year there will be monthly reoccurring videos released to help tell the past 75 years of NASA Armstrong. This month’s theme is autonomy!

Stay updated with NASA Armstrong’s 75th anniversary celebrations: 

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/about/75years/index.html 

The NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is an aeronautical research center. Its primary campus is located inside Edwards Air Force Base in California and is considered NASA's premier site for aeronautical research. 

The majority of archival footage and sound used in this video are in the public domain and can be found in government records, the Internet Archive, or Wikimedia Commons.

Additional sources include: 

"The Shape of Things to Come" (1984), Northrop Grumman Corporation

"X-29: Experiment in the Sky" (1989), Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Apogee Productions

Credit: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC)

Duration: 11 minutes, 10 seconds

Release Date: March 14, 2022

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NASA X-59 Supersonic Flight Mission Update | Armstrong Flight Research Center

NASA X-59 Supersonic Flight Mission Update | Armstrong Flight Research Center

In this edition of The Inside Scoop, you will learn about NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic mission, including the most recent assembly updates, its transport to Fort Worth, Texas, for critical ground testing, and Armstrong Flight Research Center's new flight simulator upgrades. Plus you will find out how you and your family and friends can add your name to the X-59's first flight!

NASA invites you, your family—even your friends and classmates—to sign up and add your name to our list of virtual passengers at: https://www.nasa.gov/flightlog

Your name can ride with us on our X-planes, drones, and other flights as NASA explores ways to improve aviation for everyone.

Print your personalized boarding passes, enter flights into your virtual flight log, and access activities, videos, and more!

For more X-59 information, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/X59

X-59 Free Maker Bundle (STEM Education):

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/x-59-maker-bundle-v8.pdf

The NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is an aeronautical research center. Its primary campus is located inside Edwards Air Force Base in California and is considered NASA's premier site for aeronautical research. 

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes, 49 seconds

Release Date: March 17, 2022

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The People of NASA's Artemis Moon Program

The People of NASA's Artemis Moon Program

The Moon has inspired and beckoned generations to explore. NASA’s Artemis I mission will forge a new path to the Moon, charting a course for a new, diverse generation of explorers. We will develop the cutting-edge technology needed to venture even farther—to Mars and beyond. The Artemis I rocket and spacecraft are now combined and undergoing final testing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will soon launch on the first in a series of increasingly ambitious missions. Thanks to the daily efforts of NASA and its international and industry team members, our dreams are poised to take flight. We are going.

Artemis I moon launch (uncrewed) is currently scheduled for spring 2022.

Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration, and demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond.  It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon over the course of about a three-week mission. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

Learn more about Artemis I at:

NASA's Artemis Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Read the Artemis Plan (74-page PDF Free Download): 

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/artemis_plan-20200921.pdf

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS)

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

NASA's Orion Spacecraft

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/about/index.html

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 

Producer: Barbara Zelon, Alysia Lee

Writer & Director: Paul Wizikowski

Editor: Phil Sexton

Sound Mix: Eric Land

Lunar Photography: Andrew McCarthy

Workforce Photography: NASA, ESA

Narrator: NASA Astronaut Victor Glover

Duration: 1 minute, 58 seconds

Release Date: March 13, 2022

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NASA's Artemis I: Crawling Towards Launch | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's Artemis I: Crawling Towards Launch | Kennedy Space Center

One of the many milestones in the leadup to the launch of Artemis is its rollout. This is when a crawler will carry the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew spacecraft and the European Service Module from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) to Launchpad 39B. NASA's John Giles gives us a tour of the crawler and explains the adaptations made to this “wonderful piece of machinery” since it was first built for the Apollo program in the 1960s. The European Space Agency is playing a key role in NASA’s Artemis program, which will bring astronauts back to the Moon. The European Service Module—or ESM—will provide propulsion, power and thermal control for the Orion spacecraft.

Learn more Artemis I and the European Service Module: 

https://bit.ly/Artemis1ESA and https://bit.ly/3445jtk

NASA's Artemis Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS)

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

NASA's Orion Spacecraft

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/about/index.html

Video Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

Host: Kelsea Brennan-Wessels (ESA)

Thumbnail Image Credit: NASA/Leif Heimbold

Duration: 8 minutes, 20 seconds

Release Date: March 16, 2022

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NASA's Moon Rocket Rolls to the Launchpad for the First Time

NASA's Moon Rocket Rolls to the Launchpad for the First Time

On March 17, 2022, the Orion spacecraft atop NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket rolled out to Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center ahead of its wet dress rehearsal to test rocket operations. Upon completion of the tests, the rocket will return to the vertical assembly building for final checks before its historic launch for Artemis I later this spring.

Orion will conduct critical tests during the Artemis I mission to pave the way for future missions that will take human passengers back to the Moon for the first time since 1972.

The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will be an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration, and demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond.  It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon over the course of about a three-week mission. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

Learn more about Artemis I at:

NASA's Artemis Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS)

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

NASA's Orion Spacecraft

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/about/index.html

Credit: Lockheed Martin

Duration: 1 minute, 35 seconds

Release Date: March 18, 2022

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China's Space Station: Gender Equality Today—A Sustainable Tomorrow | United Nations

China's Space Station: Gender Equality Today—A Sustainable Tomorrow | United Nations

Wang Yaping (China): Astronaut and Space Teacher at China's Manned Space Agency (CMSA)

Speaking from outer space on a 6-month mission, Wang Yaping encourages women and girls to pursue their space dreams: "May every woman be able to reach for the brightest stars!"

Wang Yaping, China's second female astronaut or taikonaut, who is presently aboard China's Tiangong space station on a six-month mission, recently recorded a video message for the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland, sending her greetings to women around the world in honor of International Women's Day on March 8, 2022. 

On November 7, 2021, Wang Yaping became China's first female spacewalker. Wang became China's second female spacefarer as a member of the Shenzhou 10 spaceship crew when it orbited the Earth in June 2013.

Credit: United Nations/United Nations Office For Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)

Duration: 1 minute, 32 seconds

Release Date: March 19, 2022

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Expedition 66-67 Soyuz Hatch Opening | International Space Station

Expedition 66-67 Soyuz Hatch Opening | International Space Station

March 18, 2022: Three Russian cosmonauts boarded the International Space Station March 18 after docking their Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft a little more than three hours after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov docked the Soyuz to the Prichal module on the ISS for the start of a planned six-month mission and were later greeted by members of the Expedition 66 crew.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Expedition 66 Crew:

Commander: Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers Pyotr Dubrov, Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer Matthias Maurer (DLR/German Aerospace Center)

NASA (U.S.) Flight Engineers: Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, and Mark Vande Hei

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 38 minutes, 38 seconds

Release Date: March 18, 2022

#NASA #Space #ISS #Russia #Россия #Soyuz #Союз #MS21 #Roscosmos #Роскосмос #Cosmonauts #OlegArtemyev #DenisMatveev #SergeyKorsakov #Astronauts #Science #Technology #Engineering #Research #Laboratory #ESA #Europe #UnitedStates #International #Human #Spaceflight  #Expedition66 #Expedition67 #STEM #Education #HD #Video

Expedition 66-67 Soyuz MS-21 Docking | International Space Station

Expedition 66-67 Soyuz MS-21 Docking | International Space Station 

March 18, 2022: Three Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) March 18 a little more than three hours after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on their Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft. Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov docked to the Prichal module on the ISS for the start of a planned six-month mission as part of both the Expedition 66 and 67 crews.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Expedition 66 Crew:

Commander: Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers Pyotr Dubrov, Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer Matthias Maurer (DLR/German Aerospace Center)

NASA (U.S.) Flight Engineers: Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, and Mark Vande Hei

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 1 hour, 5 minutes

Release Date: March 18, 2022

#NASA #Space #ISS #Russia #Россия #Soyuz #Союз #MS21 #Roscosmos #Роскосмос #Cosmonauts #OlegArtemyev #DenisMatveev #SergeyKorsakov #Astronauts #Science #Technology #Engineering #Research #Laboratory #ESA #Europe #UnitedStates #International #Human #Spaceflight  #Expedition66 #Expedition67 #STEM #Education #HD #Video

Preparing for Station Solar Array Upgrades | This Week @NASA

Preparing for Station Solar Array Upgrades | This Week @NASA

Week of March 18, 2022: Preparing the space station for solar array upgrades, rolling out the spacecraft for our Artemis I mission, and the Webb Space Telescope team reaches another milestone . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producer: Andre Valentine

Editor: Lacey Young

Music: Universal Production Music

Duration: 3 minutes, 48 seconds

Release Date: March 18, 2022

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Artemis #ArtemisI #Moon #SLS #Orion #Kennedy #ISS #Astronauts #KaylaBarron #RajaChari #ESA #Europe #JWST #Mars #Ingenuity #DSN #Science #Technology #Engineering #Spacewalk #EVA #Research #Laboratory #UnitedStates #Expedition66 #STEM #Education #HD #Video

Mars Journey: China's Zhurong Rover | NASA MRO

Mars Journey: China's Zhurong Rover | NASA MRO

The Chinese Zhurong rover landed on Mars in May 2021. This NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) HiRISE camera image, acquired on March 11, 2022, from an altitude of 288 km, shows how far the rover has traveled in the 10 months since it landed. China is the first country to carry out a Mars orbiting, landing, and rover mission successfully on its initial attempt.

In fact, the Zhurong rover's exact path on Mars can be traced from the wheel tracks left on the surface. It has traveled south for roughly 1.5 kilometers (about 1 mile). This cutout highlights the rover and the rover’s path (with contrast enhanced to better reveal the tracks).

The Zhurong rover is part of the Tianwen-1 Mission to Mars conducted by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The Tianwen-1 spacecraft was launched on July 23, 2020 and inserted into Martian orbit on February 10, 2021. The lander, carrying the rover, performed a successful Mars soft-landing on May 14, 2021, making China the third country to successfully soft-land a spacecraft on Mars and to establish communications from the surface, after the Soviet Union (Russia) and the United States.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado.

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Image Date: March 11, 2022

Release Date: March 18, 2022

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