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NASA's Boeing Starliner Astronauts at the ULA Atlas V Rocket Launch Pad
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard was rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for launch at 6:54 p.m. ET on May 19, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities.
NASA Astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore Official Biography
https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/barry-e-wilmore/biography
NASA Astronaut Mike Fincke Official Biography
https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/edward-m-fincke/biography
NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams Official Biography
https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/sunita-l-williams/biography
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/williams-s.pdf
For more updates about the flight test, visit https://blogs.nasa.gov/oft-2/
For more info on OFT-2 and Starliner, visit: boeing.com/starliner
Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft have been developed and tested to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station from U.S. soil.
Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
Credit: Boeing/John Grant
Image Date: May 18, 2022
Sound Bites: Insights to Inspire | Diana Chan | NASA Glenn Research Center
Architect, Diana Chan did not know her career path would lead her to NASA. When she is not modernizing workspaces and redesigning buildings, she is sharing her experience and culture to inspire others through STEM and educational outreach. Her advice: "Don’t be afraid to ask questions." Hear about Diana’s latest project and favorite cultural traditions.
We are celebrating Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander heritage all month with our Sound Bites video series. Hear from members of our workforce and be inspired—their diverse experiences, insights, and talents are what make NASA missions possible.
Credit: NASA Glenn Research Center
Duration: 2 minutes, 41 seconds
Release Date: May 18, 2022
Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test-2 Prelaunch | NASA Kennedy
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For more updates about the flight test, visit https://blogs.nasa.gov/oft-2/
Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft have been developed and tested to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station from U.S. soil.
For more info on OFT-2 and Starliner, visit: boeing.com/starliner
Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Hubble Reveals a River of Star Formation
This newly revised NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Hickson Compact Group 31 (HCG 31) of galaxies highlights streams of star-formation as four dwarf galaxies interact. The bright, distorted clump of young blue-white stars (top-right of center) is NGC 1741. Although it appears to be a single galaxy, NGC 1741 is actually a pair of colliding dwarf galaxies. Another dwarf, cigar-shaped galaxy to the pair’s right joins their dance with a thin, blue stream of stars that connects the trio. HGC 31’s fourth member is revealed by a stream of young blue stars that point to the galaxy (bottom-left of center) and indicate its interaction with the other three. The bright object in the center of the image is a star situated between Earth and HCG 31.
Dwarf galaxy encounters are normally seen billions of light-years away, and therefore occurred billions of years ago, but HCG 31 is located some 166 million light-years from Earth, relatively close by cosmic standards. The newly revised image emphasizes star-forming regions spurred by the quartet’s gravitational dance. The color blue represents visible blue light and showcases young, hot, blue stars, while the color red represents near-infrared light.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Charlton (Pennsylvania State University); Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)
Release Date: May 17, 2022
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NASA Downlink with Jessica & Samantha: Fairview High School
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy speak to students about living and working on the International Space Station. For ways to bring space into your classroom, visit www.nasa.gov/stemonstation.
We’re launching STEM Engagement to new heights with learning resources that connect teachers, students, parents and caregivers to the inspiring work at NASA. Join us as we apply science, technology, engineering and mathematics to explore space, improve aeronautics, examine Earth and strive to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon with the Artemis program.
NASA STEM resources: stem.nasa.gov
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Education
Jessica Watkins Official NASA Biography
https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jessica-watkins/biography
Samantha Cristoforetti's Biography (ESA)
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.
Credit: NASA STEM
Duration: 3 minutes, 45 seconds
Release Date: May 17, 2022
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NASA's Mars InSight Lander Still Hunting Marsquakes as Power Levels Fall | JPL
NASA’s InSight Mars lander is gradually losing power and is anticipated to end science operations later this summer. By December, InSight’s team expects the lander to have become inoperative, concluding a mission that has thus far detected more than 1,300 marsquakesmost recently, a magnitude 5 that occurred on May 4—and located quake-prone regions of the Red Planet.
The information gathered from those quakes has allowed scientists to measure the depth and composition of Mars’ crust, mantle, and core. Additionally, InSight (short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) has recorded invaluable weather data and studied remnants of Mars’ ancient magnetic field.
“InSight has transformed our understanding of the interiors of rocky planets and set the stage for future missions,” said Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division. “We can apply what we’ve learned about Mars’ inner structure to Earth, the Moon, Venus, and even rocky planets in other solar systems.”
InSight landed on Mars Nov. 26, 2018. Equipped with a pair of solar panels that each measures about 7 feet (2.2 meters) wide, it was designed to accomplish the mission’s primary science goals in its first Mars year (nearly two Earth years). Having achieved them, the spacecraft is now into an extended mission, and its solar panels have been producing less power as they continue to accumulate dust.
Because of the reduced power, the team will soon put the lander’s robotic arm in its resting position (called the “retirement pose”) for the last time later this month. Originally intended to deploy the seismometer and the lander’s heat probe, the arm has played an unexpected role in the mission: Along with using it to help bury the heat probe after sticky Martian soil presented the probe with challenges, the team used the arm in an innovative way to remove dust from the solar panels. As a result, the seismometer was able to operate more often than it would have otherwise, leading to new discoveries.
When InSight landed, the solar panels produced around 5,000 watt-hours each Martian day, or sol—enough to power an electric oven for an hour and 40 minutes. Now, they’re producing roughly 500 watt-hours per sol—enough to power the same electric oven for just 10 minutes.
Additionally, seasonal changes are beginning in Elysium Planitia, InSight’s location on Mars. Over the next few months, there will be more dust in the air, reducing sunlight—and the lander’s energy. While past efforts removed some dust, the mission would need a more powerful dust-cleaning event, such as a “dust devil” (a passing whirlwind), to reverse the current trend.
“We’ve been hoping for a dust cleaning like we saw happen several times to the Spirit and Opportunity rovers,” said Bruce Banerdt, InSight’s principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which leads the mission. “That’s still possible, but energy is low enough that our focus is making the most of the science we can still collect.”
If just 25% of InSight’s panels were swept clean by the wind, the lander would gain about 1,000 watt-hours per sol—enough to continue collecting science. However, at the current rate power is declining, InSight’s non-seismic instruments will rarely be turned on after the end of May.
Energy is being prioritized for the lander’s seismometer, which will operate at select times of day, such as at night, when winds are low and marsquakes are easier for the seismometer to “hear.” The seismometer itself is expected to be off by the end of summer, concluding the science phase of the mission.
At that point, the lander will still have enough power to operate, taking the occasional picture and communicating with Earth. But the team expects that around December, power will be low enough that one day InSight will simply stop responding.
For more information on InSight, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/
More About the Mission
JPL manages InSight for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA’s Discovery Program, managed by the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built the InSight spacecraft, including its cruise stage and lander, and supports spacecraft operations for the mission.
A number of European partners, including France’s Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are supporting the InSight mission. CNES provided the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument to NASA, with the principal investigator at IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris). Significant contributions for SEIS came from IPGP; the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany; the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland; Imperial College London and Oxford University in the United Kingdom; and JPL. DLR provided the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument, with significant contributions from the Space Research Center (CBK) of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Astronika in Poland. Spain’s Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) supplied the temperature and wind sensors.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Release Date: May 17, 2022
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NASA’s InSight Lander Accomplishes Mars Science Goals as Power Levels Fall | JPL
NASA’s InSight lander touched down in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars in November 2018. During its time on the Red Planet, InSight has achieved all its primary science goals and continues to hunt for quakes on Mars.
The mission is the first to reveal the interior structure of Mars, using marsquakes to study the layers inside the planet. InSight’s seismometer was the first to detect a quake on another planet. InSight also measured weather at Elysium Planitia for four years with a unique set of meteorological sensors.
InSight has also persisted through adversity. The team found innovative ways to take on engineering challenges they encountered. InSight’s findings help scientists understand how all rocky worlds, including Earth and its Moon, formed.
For more information on InSight, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Duration: 4 minutes
Release Date: May 17, 2022
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NASA's CAPSTONE CubeSat Mission | Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket in New Zealand
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Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3FzSrcD
Image Credit: Rocket Lab
Image Capture Dates: May 12-17, 2022
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CAPSTONE: Flying a New Path to the Moon | NASA Ames
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a CubeSat that will fly a unique orbit around the Moon intended for NASA’s future Artemis lunar outpost Gateway. Its six-month mission will help launch a new era of deep space exploration.
Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3FzSrcD
NASA's Ames Research Center is located in California's Silicon Valley.
Credit: NASA Ames Research Center
Music Provided by Universal Production Music: Fast Motion by Stephen Daniel Lemaire
Duration: 2 minutes, 10 seconds
Release Date: May 17, 2022
ESA Astronaut Matthias Maurer in his SpaceX Flight Suit with Crewmates
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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.
Image Date: May 4, 2022
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NASA's Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2: Starliner Crew Spacecraft Launch Trailer
Set to lift off on May 19, 2022, Starliner will launch on NASA's Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) headed for the International Space Station. OFT-2 will test end-to-end capabilities of the Starliner spacecraft and Atlas V rocket from launch to docking to a return to Earth in the desert of the western United States.
Starliner is expected to arrive at the space station for docking about 24 hours after launch with about 500 pounds of NASA cargo and crew supplies. After a successful docking, Starliner will spend five to 10 days aboard the orbiting laboratory before returning to Earth. The spacecraft will return with nearly 600 pounds of cargo, including reusable Nitrogen Oxygen Recharge System (NORS) tanks that provide breathable air to station crew members.
Following a successful completion of OFT-2, NASA and Boeing will determine a launch window for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, Starliner’s first flight with astronauts aboard.
This is the second uncrewed flight test of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
For more updates about the flight test, visit https://blogs.nasa.gov/oft-2/
Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft have been developed and tested to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station from U.S. soil.
Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
Producer/Editor: Lacey Young
Music: Universal Production Music
Duration: 52 seconds
Release Date: May 17, 2022
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NASA Astronaut Kayla Barron in SpaceX Flight Suit with Samantha & Jessica
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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.
Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Image Date: May 4, 2022
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NASA Armstrong Supports U.S. Navy F/A-18E Wing Testing
NAVAIR retired its previous loads test aircraft and NASA Armstrong staff are assisting to prepare the new aircraft for its role to help safely manage in flight maneuvers and determine how the F/A-18E fleet will perform if proposed upgrades are incorporated.
This video shows the wing loads calibration testing that concluded in March 2022.
For more information: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/home/index.html
Credit: Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC)
Duration: 1 minute, 28 seconds
Release Date: May 12, 2022
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75 Years of NASA Armstrong: Space Flight History
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 space flight!
Stay updated with NASA Armstrong’s 75th anniversary celebrations:
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/home/index.html
Credit: Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC)
Duration: 16 minutes
Release Date: May 12, 2022
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NASA's X-59 Arrives Back in California Following Critical Ground Tests
The X-59, NASA's quiet supersonic experimental aircraft, has arrived back at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, following several months of critical ground tests in Fort Worth, Texas.
This new technology, along with a potential change in regulations, will allow airliners to fly faster over land, cutting passenger travel time in half without disturbing people on the ground.
For more information about NASA's quiet supersonic mission, visit http://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: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
Duration: 2 minutes, 13 seconds
Release Date: April 18, 2021
