NASA's End-of-Year All Hands Meeting with Senior Leadership

NASA's End-of-Year All Hands Meeting with Senior Leadership

Administrator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, and Associate Administrator Bob Cabana led an end-of-the year all hands event Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, to celebrate highlights of NASA’s major accomplishments in 2022 and to look forward to what’s coming for NASA in 2023 and beyond. This event was hosted by Michelle Jones of NASA's Office of Communications at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. 

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 1 hour

Release Date: Dec. 14, 2022

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Watch NASA's Boeing Starliner Astronauts Train for Crewed Flight Test

Watch NASA's Boeing Starliner Astronauts Train for Crewed Flight Test

Watch NASA Astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore, Suni Williams and backup crew member Mike Fincke train for Starliner's Crew Flight Test (CFT).

The team recently completed two major milestones ahead of CFT. Read more about the Crew Validation Test and Super Suited Week here:

https://starlinerupdates.com/teams-train-for-starliners-first-crewed-flight/

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

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

For more info on Starliner, visit: boeing.com/starliner

Free 59-page PDF Download on NASA's Commercial Crew Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/commercial_crew_press_kit_04.pdf

Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at: https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

Credit: Boeing Space

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 14, 2022

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The Carina Nebula | Hubble’s Inside The Image | NASA Goddard

The Carina Nebula | Hubble’s Inside The Image | NASA Goddard

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5 million observations over the past 32 years. One of them is the breathtaking image of the Carina Nebula.

Hubble's view of the nebula shows star birth in a new level of detail. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the monster stars that inhabit this inferno. In the process, these stars are shredding the surrounding material that is the last vestige of the giant cloud from which the stars were born.

In this video, Dr. Ken Carpenter takes us on a journey through the Nebula, teaching us some of the interesting science behind this famous Hubble image.

For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble 

Video Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center 

Producer & Director: James Leigh

Editor: Lucy Lund

Director of Photography: James Ball

Additional Editing & Photography: Matthew Duncan

Executive Producers: James Leigh & Matthew Duncan

Production & Post: Origin Films 

Hubble Space Telescope Animation

Image Credits: European Space Agency/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen), A. Fujii, Robert Gendler, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Panther Observatory, Steve Cannistra, Michael Pierce, Robert Berrington (Indiana University), Nigel Sharp, Mark Hanna (NOAO)/WIYN/NSF

Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 14, 2022

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Where Did Our Moon Come From? We Asked a NASA Scientist

Where Did Our Moon Come From? We Asked a NASA Scientist

Where did our Moon come from? Over the years, there have been several theories, but most scientists think it’s likely that a Mars-sized object smashed into Earth, creating what we now see in the sky.

NASA scientist Caitlin Ahrens shines a light on the Moon's mysterious origins.

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 1 minute, 30 seconds

Producers: Jessica Wilde, Scott Bednar

Editor: Matthew Schara 

Release Date: Dec. 14, 2022

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Mission Patch | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Mission Patch | International Space Station

Patch Description: "Sailing across the Crew 6 patch the ship represents both our destination the International Space Station (ISS) and the vessels that countless explorers have steered into the unknown. The ISS anchors us on the dawn of missions to the Moon and Mars. The ship's sail a symbol of the 2012 Cosmonaut class has relative radii matching those of Earth the Moon and Mars. The Draco constellation represents the Commercial Crew Program and shares a name with the thrusters that maneuver our Dragon spacecraft. The ship's Dragon figurehead looks to the future as we also look back at Earth grateful for the tireless hours of all who support our mission."

NASA and SpaceX are targeting mid-February 2023, for launch of the agency’s Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station.

From left are, Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, Pilot Warren "Woody" Hoburg, Mission Specialist Sultan Al Nedayi, and Commander Stephen Bowen

The four members of the SpaceX Crew-6 mission are Mission Specialist Sultan Al Nedayi (UAE), Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev (Russia), Pilot William Hoburg, and Commander Stephen Bowen.

Astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi from the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (United Arab Emirates) will make history by being the first astronaut from the Arab world to spend six months on the International Space Station (ISS). AlNeyadi has undergone a 20-month long rigorous training for the Crew-6 mission. AlNeyadi began his training in September 2018, at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City in Moscow, Russia.

Cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev (Russia)

Andrey Valerievich Fediaev (Russian Cyrillic: Андрей Валерьевич Федяев; born February 26, 1981) is a Russian cosmonaut. Fediaev received his an engineering degree in air transport and Air Traffic Control from the Balashov Military Aviation School in 2004. Following graduation, Fediaev joined the Russian Air Force in the 317th mixed aviation segment. He obtained the rank of major before his retirement in 2013. He logged over 500 hours in Russian aircraft.

Fediaev was selected as a cosmonaut in 2012. He reported to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in 2012 and was named a test cosmonaut on June 16, 2014.

On July 15, 2022, he was assigned to the SpaceX Crew-6 mission after a recent crew swap agreement between NASA and Roscosmos.

NASA Astronaut William Hoburg's Official Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/warren-hoburg

https://www.nasa.gov/content/warren-hoburg-phd-nasa-astronaut

NASA Astronaut Stephen Bowen's Official Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/stephen-g-bowen

The Crew-6 mission will be the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour’s fourth flight to the International Space Station, which previously supported the Demo-2, Crew-2, and Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) missions, making the spacecraft the fleet leader in number of flights to and from the station. The Dragon spacecraft currently is undergoing refurbishment at SpaceX’s Dragonland facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

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: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

Image 1 Release Date: Dec. 14, 2022

Image 2 Date: Aug. 8, 2022

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 Visits Amidon-Bowen Elementary School in Washington

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 Visits Amidon-Bowen Elementary School in Washington

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and Raja Chari met with students and faculty during a visit to Amidon-Bowen Elementary School, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, in Washington, DC. 

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts, from left to right, Mark Vande Hei, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and Raja Chari pose for a photo with students and faculty

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts Raja Chari, left, and Mark Vande Hei, right, answer questions from students 

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts Raja Chari, left, and Mark Vande Hei, right, answer questions from students

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts, from left to right, Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Mark Vande Hei, and Tom Marshburn answer questions from students

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronaut Kayla Barron answers questions from students

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts, from left to right, Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Mark Vande Hei, and Tom Marshburn answer questions from students

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronaut Tom Marshburn participates in a STEM demonstration during a visit

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronaut Tom Marshburn participates in a STEM demonstration during a visit

Image Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber

Release Date: Dec. 8, 2022

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Image of the Week: FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 | USGS

Image of the Week: FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 | USGS

While the best soccer players in the world show off their footwork skills, the best Earth observation satellite program in the world displays its skill at detecting change over time. Landsat images show the rapidly growing city of Doha in Qatar. It's the country's capital and the location of the 2022 men's World Cup.

It grew from around 500,000 people in the late 1990s to 1.5 million in 2011. The city's 2022 estimated population is nearly 1.9 million. Lusail is the largest stadium hosting the World Cup with a seating capacity of 80,000, it will host the final on December 18th. Credits and sources appear on screen. 

USGS: Science for a changing world.

FIFA = International Association Football Federation/Fédération Internationale de Football Association

Credit: United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Duration: 55 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 13, 2022

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"2022: A Year of Success" | NASA

"2022: A Year of Success" | NASA

"Throughout America's story, there are defining days. Days when minds change, hearts fill and imagination soar."

"NASA’s mission is to explore the unknown in air and space, innovate for the benefit of humanity, and inspire the world through discovery."

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 13, 2022

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Europe’s All-new Weather Satellite Takes to the Skies | ESA

Europe’s All-new Weather Satellite Takes to the Skies | ESA

The first Meteosat Third Generation Imager (MTG-I1) satellite lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on December 13, 2022, at 21:30 CET.

From geostationary orbit, 36,000 km above the equator, this all-new weather satellite will provide state-of-the art observations of Earth’s atmosphere and realtime monitoring of lightning events, taking weather forecasting to the next level. The satellite carries two completely new instruments: Europe’s first Lightning Imager and a Flexible Combined Imager.

MTG-I1 is the first of six satellites that form the full MTG system, which will provide critical data for weather forecasting over the next 20 years. In full operations, the mission will comprise two MTG-I satellites and one MTG Sounding (MTG-S) satellites working in tandem.

This was Arianespace’s fourth launch of 2022.  The third Ariane 5 of the year placed its satellite passengers into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). The launcher carried a total payload of approximately 10,972 kg.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)- M. Pedoussaut

Release Date: Dec. 13, 2022

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NASA's Dragonfly: Eyes in the Skies of Saturn's Moon Titan 🪐🌒

NASA's Dragonfly: Eyes in the Skies of Saturn's Moon Titan 🪐🌒

Dragonfly is a rotorcraft lander mission—part of NASA's New Frontiers Program—designed to take advantage of Titan's environment to sample materials and determine surface composition in different geologic settings.

The Dragonfly dual-quadcopter will explore a variety of locations on Saturn's moon Titan. The dense, calm atmosphere and low gravity make flying an ideal way to travel to different areas of the moon. Studies from the late-1990s onward identified aerial mobility, such as that provided by helicopters, balloons, and airplanes, as a key enabler for Titan exploration. At this stage of the mission, the team is refining Dragonfly's design to best meet its exploration objectives at Titan. This means an evolving look for the rotorcraft-lander that incorporates new camera and instrument placements, thermal designs and use of materials to save mass.  

In under an hour, Dragonfly will cover tens of miles farther than any planetary rover has traveled. With one hop per full Titan day (16 Earth days), the rotorcraft will travel from its initial landing site to cover areas several hundred kilometers away during the planned two-year mission. Despite its unique ability to fly, Dragonfly would spend most of its time on Titan's surface making science measurements.

Learn more about this revolutionary ocean world mission: https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/

On its final flyby of Saturn's largest moon in 2017, NASA's Cassini spacecraft gathered radar data revealing that the small liquid lakes in Titan's northern hemisphere are surprisingly deep, perched atop hills and filled with methane.

The findings, published April 15, 2019 in Nature Astronomy, were the first confirmation of just how deep some of Titan's lakes are (more than 300 feet, or 100 meters) and of their composition. They provide new information about the way liquid methane rains on, evaporates from and seeps into Titan—the only planetary body in our solar system other than Earth known to have stable liquid on its surface.

Credit: Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Applied Physics Laboratory

Duration: 39 seconds

Release Date: December 13, 2022

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Zoom into GNz7q in the Hubble GOODS-North Field

Zoom into GNz7q in the Hubble GOODS-North Field

An international team of astronomers using archival data from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have discovered a unique object in the distant, early Universe that is a crucial link between young star-forming galaxies and the earliest supermassive black holes. This object is the first of its kind to be discovered so early in the Universe’s history, and had been lurking unnoticed in one of the best-studied areas of the night sky.

Current theories predict that supermassive black holes begin their lives in the dust-shrouded cores of vigorously star-forming “starburst” galaxies before expelling the surrounding gas and dust and emerging as extremely luminous quasars. Whilst they are extremely rare, examples of both dusty starburst galaxies and luminous quasars have been detected in the early Universe. The team believes that GNz7q could be the “missing link” between these two classes of objects.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble, NASA, Digitized Sky Survey 2, G. Brammer, S. Fujimoto, G. Illingworth, P. Oesch, R. Bouwens, I. Labbé, N. Risinger, E. Slawikkkn, M. Zamani, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)

Duration: 1 minute, 15 seconds

Release Date: April 13, 2022

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Pan of the Object GNz7q in the Hubble GOODS-North Field

Pan of the Object GNz7q in the Hubble GOODS-North Field

An international team of astronomers using archival data from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have discovered a unique object in the distant, early Universe that is a crucial link between young star-forming galaxies and the earliest supermassive black holes. This object is the first of its kind to be discovered so early in the Universe’s history, and had been lurking unnoticed in one of the best-studied areas of the night sky. 

The object, which is referred to as GNz7q, was found in the Hubble GOODS-North field,

Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz; Yale University), R. Bouwens and I. Labbé (Leiden University), and the Science Team, S. Fujimoto et al. (Cosmic Dawn Center [DAWN] and University of Copenhagen), N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)  

Duration: 20 seconds

Release Date: April 13, 2022

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Object GNz7q in the Hubble GOODS-North Field

Object GNz7q in the Hubble GOODS-North Field

An international team of astronomers using archival data from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have discovered a unique object in the distant, early Universe that is a crucial link between young star-forming galaxies and the earliest supermassive black holes. This object is the first of its kind to be discovered so early in the Universe’s history, and had been lurking unnoticed in one of the best-studied areas of the night sky. 

The object, which is referred to as GNz7q, is shown here in the center of the cutout from the Hubble GOODS-North field.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz; Yale University), R. Bouwens and I. Labbé (Leiden University), and the Science Team, S. Fujimoto et al. (Cosmic Dawn Center [DAWN] and University of Copenhagen)

Release Date: April 13, 2022

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Replay: Artemis I Moon Mission Returns to Earth with Science | NASA

Replay: Artemis I Moon Mission Returns to Earth with Science | NASA

NASA’s Artemis I Moon mission flew on a historic journey around the Moon, testing technologies, performing science and deploying CubeSats along the way. The Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, with science experiments on board. What questions do you have about the science on Artemis I? 

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 1 hour

Release Date: Dec. 12, 2022

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Planet Mars: Of Things Light and Dark | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Planet Mars: Of Things Light and Dark | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Here in Eos Chasma, hematite has been detected. Hematite is one of the most abundant minerals in the rocks and soils on the surface of Mars. Although our image from the red-green-blue enhanced color swath appears dark blue, an abundance of hematite in Martian rocks and surface materials gives the landscape a reddish brown color and is why the planet appears red in the night sky.

Eos Chasma is located in the southern part of the massive Valles Marineris canyon system.

This is a non-narrated clip with ambient sound. The image is less than 1 km (under a mile) across and the spacecraft altitude was 264 km (164 mi). 

This image was captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) using the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument. 

Malin Space Science Systems built the Mars Color Imager (MARCI), Context Camera (CTX) systems for MRO.

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. 

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Duration: 3 minutes, 32 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 12, 2022

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Orion Recovery Complete | NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission

Orion Recovery Complete | NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission

NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I Moon Mission was successfully recovered inside the well deck of the U.S. Navy's USS Portland on Dec. 11, 2022, off the coast of Baja California. After launching atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on Nov. 16, 2022, from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Orion spent 25.5 days in space before returning to Earth, completing the Artemis I mission. At its farthest distance during the mission, Orion traveled nearly 270,000 miles from our home planet, more than 1,000 times farther than where the International Space Station orbits Earth, to intentionally stress systems before flying crew.

The Artemis I mission was the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, the SLS rocket, and Kennedy Space Center's Exploration Ground Systems.

Artemis I provides the foundation for sending humans to the lunar surface, for developing a long-term presence on and around the Moon, and for paving the way for humanity to set foot on Mars.

Learn more about Artemis I: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Release Date: December 11, 2022

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