Launch Ready: China's Shenzhou-14 Astronauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang & Cai Xuzhe

Launch Ready: China's Shenzhou-14 Astronauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang & Cai Xuzhe

China will launch its Shenzhou-14 crewed spacecraft to the Tiangong Space Station on Sunday, June 5, 2022. Blast off is scheduled for 10:44 a.m. Beijing Time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia on a Long March-2F Y14 rocket. Chinese astronauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang, and Cai Xuzhe will be on a six-month long duration mission. Liu became the first Chinese woman in space during the Shenzhou-9 Mission in 2012. Shenzhou-14 represents the second space mission for Chen Dong and Liu Yang. Cai Xuzhe is on his first. 

Following the launch of Shenzhou-14, the lab module Wentian is scheduled to arrive in July 2022, the lab module Mengtian in October, and then the Tianzhou-5 cargo craft and the Shenzhou-15 crew mission spacecraft later this year. The Wentian and Mengtian lab modules will provide larger platforms for scientific experiments in microgravity. Nearly 100 experiments are planned during the construction phase of China's space station. After operations are normalized, larger-scale scientific research will be conducted. This is expected to effectively promote breakthroughs in major frontier scientific fields, such as dark matter and dark energy, galaxy formation and evolution, laws about the nature of matter, as well as in sustainable development on Earth. 

Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 1 minute, 56 seconds

Release Date: June 4, 2022

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The Blue Origin New Shepard Mission NS-21 Webcast Replay

The Blue Origin New Shepard Mission NS-21 Webcast Replay

Blue Origin successfully completed its fifth human spaceflight on Saturday, June 4, 2022. The astronaut crew included: Evan Dick, Katya Echazarreta, Hamish Harding, Victor Correa Hespanha, Jaison Robinson, and Victor Vescovo. Katya Echazarreta became the first Mexican-born woman and the youngest American to fly to space.

Learn more at BlueOrigin.com

Credit: Blue Origin

Duration: 1 hour, 35 minutes

Release Date: June 4, 2022

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The New Shepard NS-21 Mission Crew | Blue Origin

The New Shepard NS-21 Mission Crew | Blue Origin

Blue Origin successfully completed its fifth human spaceflight on Saturday, June 4, 2022. Meet the New Shepard NS-21 crew: Evan Dick, Katya Echazarreta, Hamish Harding, Victor Correa Hespanha, Jaison Robinson, and Victor Vescovo. Katya Echazarreta became the first Mexican-born woman and the youngest American to fly to space.

Credit: Blue Origin

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: June 4, 2022

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China Shenzhou-13 Space Station Mission Documentary Trailer (4K Ultra HD)

China Shenzhou-13 Space Station Mission Documentary Trailer (4K Ultra HD)

China's Shenzhou-13 crew used two 8K cameras to film the first ever 8K documentary on China's Space Station called Tiangong. Ahead of the Shenzhou-14 launch, an ultra-HD trailer was released by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). Enjoy these epic shots! Looking forward to seeing the full film soon . . .

The Shenzhou 13 long duration three-person crew mission launched October 15, 2021, on a Long March-2F launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center located in the Gobi Desert of Inner Mongolia. It was the eighth crewed Chinese spaceflight and the thirteenth flight of the Shenzhou space program since 2003. The Shenzhou spacecraft carried three People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonauts on the second flight to the Tianhe core module, the first module of China's Tiangong Space Station.  

The Shenzhou 13 reentry spacecraft successfully undocked from the Tianhe core module on April 15, 2022, and performed a series of fast return de-orbit procedures enabling it to touchdown on Earth nine hours later. The reentry module returned on April 16, 2022. At 182 days, the mission set a new national human spaceflight long duration record for China surpassing Shenzhou 12's 92 days.

Shenzhou 13 Crew

1. Major General Zhai Zhigang was a veteran of Shenzhou 7. 

2. Colonel Wang Yaping became the first woman to visit the Tiangong Space Station. Yaping previously flew on Shenzhou 10 and became China's second woman in space. On November 7, 2021, Wang Yaping became China's first female spacewalker. When Shenzhou 13 completed the 180-day mission, Wang had spent about 195 days in space, setting a new flight record among all Chinese astronauts.

3. Colonel Ye Guangfu was on his first spaceflight.

Credit: CN Space/China Central Television (CCTV)

Duration: 2 minutes, 18 seconds

Release Date: June 3, 2022

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Target Date for First James Webb Space Telescope Full Color Images | This Week @NASA

Target Date for First James Webb Space Telescope Full-Color Images | This Week @NASA

Week of June 3, 2022: July 12—An important target date for the James Webb Space Telescope, an update about the next generation of spacesuits, and testing our lunar-roving robot . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Learn more about spacesuits and spacewalking at: https://nasa.gov/suitup

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 

Duration: 2 minutes, 48 seconds

Release Date: June 3, 2022

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Rocket Motor Test for NASA Artemis Moon Missions | Marshall Space Flight Center

Rocket Motor Test for NASA Artemis Moon Missions | Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA engineers successfully completed a subscale solid rocket motor test June 1, 2022, at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama. The subscale motor produced 89,000 pounds of thrust during the hot fire test. This was the second test supporting development efforts for a new motor design for Artemis missions after Artemis VIII. 

NASA's Artemis program is preparing to send the first woman and person of color to the lunar surface.

As part of a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will be an uncrewed flight test in 2022 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. NASA's Orion crew spacecraft 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 NASA's Artemis Program: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

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

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

Video Credit: NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center/Samuel Lott

Duration: 53 seconds

Release Date: June 3, 2022

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Russian Progress 81 Cargo Ship Docks Successfully to International Space Station

Russian Progress 81 Cargo Ship Docks Successfully to International Space Station

[Docking occurs at 46 minute mark]

Expedition 67 Update: 

The uncrewed Russian Progress 81 spacecraft launched on a Soyuz rocket at 5:32 a.m. EDT (2:32 p.m. Baikonur time) Friday, June 3, 2022, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Progress 81 arrived at the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module at 9:02 a.m. EDT, two orbits after launch. Progress is delivering almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station for the Expedition 67 crew. 

Expedition 67 Crew

Commander Oleg Artemyev (Russia)

Roscosmos Flight Engineers: Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov (Russia)

NASA Flight Engineers: Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins (USA)

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer: Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy)

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)

Duration: 55 minutes

Release Date: June 3, 2022

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NASA's Space to Ground: JPL's Earth Mineral Dust Detector Arriving Soon

NASA's Space to Ground: JPL's Earth Mineral Dust Detector Arriving Soon

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. The uncrewed Russian Progress 81 launched on a Soyuz rocket at 5:32 a.m. EDT (2:32 p.m. Baikonur time) Friday, June 3, 2022, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Progress 81 spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module at 9:02 a.m. EDT, two orbits after launch. Progress is delivering almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station for the Expedition 67 crew. 

While scientists know that dust affects the Earth's environment and climate, they do not have enough data to determine, in detail, what those effects are or may be in the future—at least not yet. Launching to the International Space Station on a SpaceX cargo launch June 9, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument will help fill in those knowledge gaps. EMIT’s state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer, developed by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, will collect more than a billion dust-source-composition measurements around the globe over the course of a year—and in doing so, significantly advance scientists’ understanding of dust’s influence across the Earth system.

Expedition 67 Crew

Commander Oleg Artemyev (Russia)

Roscosmos Flight Engineers: Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov (Russia)

NASA Flight Engineers: Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins (USA)

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer: Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy)

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)

Duration: 2 minutes, 21 seconds

Release Date: June 3, 2022

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Russian Progress 81 Cargo Ship Launch for International Space Station

Russian Progress 81 Cargo Ship Launch for International Space Station

[Liftoff at 17 minute mark]

Expedition 67 Update: The uncrewed Russian Progress 81 cargo craft launched to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 3, 2022, atop a Soyuz booster rocket. Progress is filled with almost three tons of supplies and cargo and docked to the aft port of the Zvezda service module after completing a two-orbit rendezvous. The resupply vehicle will remain docked to the space station until late this year.

Expedition 67 Crew

Commander Oleg Artemyev (Russia)

Roscosmos Flight Engineers: Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov (Russia)

NASA Flight Engineers: Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins (USA)

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer: Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy)

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 Video/Roscosmos

Duration: 29 minutes

Release Date: June 3, 2022

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Why Uranus and Neptune Are Different Colors | NOIRLab's Gemini North Telescope

Why Uranus and Neptune Are Different Colors | NOIRLab's Gemini North Telescope

Astronomers may now understand why the similar planets Uranus and Neptune are different colors. Using observations from the Gemini North telescope, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, and the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have developed a single atmospheric model that matches observations of both planets. The model reveals that excess haze on Uranus builds up in the planet’s stagnant, sluggish atmosphere and makes it appear a lighter tone than Neptune.

Images and Video: International Gemini Observatory/National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab)/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), J. da Silva/NASA /JPL-Caltech /B. Jónsson, J. Pollard, E. Mastroianni, ESA/Hubble, M.Kornmesser.  

Image Processing: M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab)  

Music: Stellardrone — Airglow

Release Date: June 1, 2022

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NASA's Mars Perseverance & Curiosity Rovers—New June 2022 Images | JPL

NASA's Mars Perseverance & Curiosity Rovers—New June 2022 Images | JPL

Roving to Delta - Mars 2020 - Sol 395

    Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Thomas Appéré

Mars 2020 - Sol 454 - Mastcam-Z

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

Mars 2020 - Sol 449 - Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

MSL - Sol 3489 - Mastcam

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Mars 2020 - Sol 456 - Mastcam-Z

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

MSL - Sol 3487 - Mastcam

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Perseverance Rover Update:

Perseverance has continued into Hawksbill Gap, making remote sensing observations of small portions of outcropping rock layers in search of a good place to collect a sample. Since Perseverance is in the Shenandoah quadrangle, we are using target names from Shenandoah National Park. Some of the names this past week included “Bald_Face_Mountain,” “Little_Devil_Stairs,” “Sunset_Hill,” “Luck_Hollow,” and “Moody_Creek.” Perseverance logged nearly 400 meters of driving progress for the week of May 15-21, accumulating a total distance since landing of over 11.8 km as of Sol 446.

Caption Credit: Eleni Ravanis, Student Collaborator at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Release Date: June 2, 2022

Curiosity Rover Update:

Our intrepid rover engineers again successfully navigated Curiosity a little higher up Mount Sharp (~5 m) and ~40 m on the ground, away from our previous location. The terrain beneath the rover included striated, dusty bedrock and sand ripples with coarse lag deposits.

The environmental scientists planned several observations to continue monitoring changes in atmospheric conditions and the current dust storm within Gale crater. These included: Navcam line of sight images, a large dust devil survey, suprahorizon movies, a dust devil movie, and a zenith movie; and Mastcam basic and full tau observations.

Caption Credit: Lucy Thompson, Planetary Geologist, University of New Brunswick

Release Date: May 26, 2022

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: November 6, 2011

Landing: August 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University/Thomas Appéré/Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: May 26-June 2, 2022

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Lightning Strikes at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

Lightning Strikes at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

[No Audio] Take a look at various lightning strikes over the years at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The event was captured by high-speed cameras stationed at the pad and mobile launcher as well as the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). For the images that seem to be in daylight, a special filter called a “clear day frame” was used, which provides an overlay of the raw frame on a reference image. At pad 39B, there are three, 600-foot-tall masts with overhead wires used to transmit electrical energy around the perimeter of the pad to provide lightning protection for launch vehicles as they are processed and launched from the pad.

Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

Duration: 57 seconds

Release Date: June 2, 2022

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Northern England & Scotland | International Space Station

Northern England & Scotland | International Space Station

This week, Queen Elizabeth II, celebrates her Platinum Jubilee to mark 70 years as queen of the United Kingdom and fourteen other Commonwealth realms. In this image, the International Space Station orbits 261 miles above England with Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter pictured in the upper right foreground on April 20, 2022.

Expedition 67 Crew

Commander Oleg Artemyev (Russia)

Roscosmos Flight Engineers: Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov (Russia)

NASA Flight Engineers: Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins (USA)

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer: Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy)

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 Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Centre (JSC)

Image Date: April 20, 2022

Release Date: June 1, 2022

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What's Up for June 2022? | Skywatching Tips from NASA

What's Up for June 2022? | Skywatching Tips from NASA

What are some skywatching highlights in June 2022? 

The morning quartet of Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, and Mars continues to shine, though they will spread farther apart over the next couple of months. Globular cluster M13, aka the Hercules Cluster, is best observed with a telescope, but binoculars will reveal it as a fuzzy spot. And the constellation Lyra is easily located thanks to its brightest star, Vega.

To find a public observing event, visit: https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov

Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: June 1, 2022

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NASA Picks Next-Generation Spacesuit Suppliers for Moon Missions & Earth Orbit

NASA Picks Next-Generation Spacesuit Suppliers for Moon Missions & Earth Orbit

June 1, 2022: NASA held a news conference at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston to announce the companies selected to develop spacewalking systems under the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) contract. Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA Johnson; Lindsay Aitchison, program executive for EVA/HSM at NASA headquarters; Lara Kearney, manager of EVA/HSM at NASA Johnson; Dina Contella, operations integration manager of the International Space Station program at NASA Johnson; and vendor representatives from Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace offered remarks on the occasion and answered media questions. The next generation of spacesuits and spacewalking systems are a vital part of NASA’s deep space exploration plans.

Learn more about spacewalking at: https://nasa.gov/suitup

Credit: NASA Video

Duration: 58 minutes

Release Date: June 1, 2022

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Two Views of Earth's Moon: International Space Station & NOAA Weather Satellite

Two Views of Earth's Moon: International Space Station & NOAA Weather Satellite

The first image shows the Moon, pictured the day before it went into its Last Quarter phase, seen from the International Space Station as it orbited 266 miles above the Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand on May 21, 2022. 

In the second image, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-18 weather satellite has captured the Moon rising over the northeast edge of Earth on May 11, 2022, from a much greater distance away than the International Space Station.

Did you know that Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) use the Moon for calibration? GOES satellites scan the moon regularly to help calibrate the visible channels on each satellites’ imager. The Moon is a very stable and predictable target with no atmosphere.

A geostationary orbit, also referred to as a geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO), is a circular geosynchronous orbit 35,786 km (22,236 mi) in altitude above Earth's equator (42,164 km (26,199 mi) in radius from Earth's center) and following the direction of Earth's rotation.

However, normal processing of the satellite data removes all data beyond the edge of Earth. Special data processing is required to obtain Moon images like this.

Learn more about how satellite data becomes imagery at go.usa.gov/xdH2W   

Credit: NOAA/NASA/Johnson Space Center (JSC)

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