Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Mars Images: March-April 2023 | NASA's Perseverance & Curiosity Rovers | JPL

Mars Images: March-April 2023 | NASA's Perseverance & Curiosity Rovers | JPL


Mars2020 - sol 753


Mars2020 - sol 753


Mars2020 - sol 753


Mars2020 - sol 754


Mars2020 - sol 753


MSL - sol 3783


Mars2020 - sol 749

Mars2020 - sol 751

Celebrating 10 Years+ on Mars! (2012-2023)

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

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

Launch: Nov. 6, 2011

Landing Date: Aug. 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars


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.

Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity)

Launch: July 30, 2020    

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

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


Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Processing: Kevin M. Gill/PipploIMP (Images 7 & 8)

Image Release Dates: March 30-April 5, 2023


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New Expedition 68/69 Crew Photos | International Space Station

New Expedition 68/69 Crew Photos | International Space Station

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg works in a glove bag attached to the BioFabrication Facility (BFF)
UAE Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi poses with a free-flying AstroBee robotic helper inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module
UAE Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi works on orbital plumbing tasks
NASA astronaut & Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg works in a glove bag attached to the BioFabrication Facility (BFF)
NASA astronaut & Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen conducts research operations for the Foams and Emulsions physics experiment
The Canadarm2 robotic arm extends from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above a cloudy East China Sea off the coast of Shanghai, China's largest city

Expedition 69 on the International Space Station officially began on March 28, 2023.

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 69 Crew (March-April 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

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 Dates: March 6-April 1, 2023


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Mars: New Interactive Mosaic Shows Vivid Detail | NASA/JPL

Mars: New Interactive Mosaic Shows Vivid Detail | NASA/JPL

The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars allows scientists and the public to explore the planet like never before. It includes different layers of data that can be turned on or off, like these labels for named geographic features on the planet.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Context Camera, which captured the 110,000 images that make up the interactive global mosaic, is especially useful for spotting impact craters like those seen here.

The new global mosaic, shown in a detail example at left, is stitched together from images taken by MRO’s Context Camera, which captures the Martian surface in long strips. The process is revealed in the image at right, showing how portions of CTX images were combined. 

Both scientists and the public can navigate a new global image of the Red Planet that was made at Caltech using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars lets anyone with an internet connection browse the Red Planet.Visit: https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/V01/SceneView/intro_c.html

Cliffsides, impact craters, and dust devil tracks are captured in mesmerizing detail in a new mosaic of the Red Planet composed of 110,000 images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Taken by the veteran spacecraft’s black-and-white Context Camera, or CTX, the images cover nearly 270 square feet (25 square meters) of surface per pixel.

This makes the Global CTX Mosaic of Mars the highest-resolution global image of the Red Planet ever created. If it were printed out, this 5.7 trillion pixel (or 5.7 terapixel) mosaic would be large enough to cover the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California.

The product of Caltech’s Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization, the mosaic took six years and tens of thousands of hours to develop. It is so detailed that more than 120 peer-reviewed science papers have already cited a beta version. However, the mosaic is also easy enough for anyone to use.

“I wanted something that would be accessible to everyone,” said Jay Dickson, the image processing scientist who led the project and manages the Murray Lab. “Schoolchildren can use this now. My mother, who just turned 78, can use this now. The goal is to lower the barriers for people who are interested in exploring Mars.”

CTX is among three cameras aboard MRO, which is led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. One of those cameras, the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) provides color images of surface features as small as a dining room table. In contrast, CTX provides a broader view of terrain around those features, helping scientists understand how they are related. Its ability to capture larger expanses of the landscape has made CTX especially useful for spotting impact craters on the surface. A third camera, the Mars Color Imager (MARCI), led by the same team that operates CTX, produces a daily global map of Mars weather at much lower spatial resolution.

Mars Up Close

Snapping away since MRO arrived at Mars in 2006, CTX has documented nearly all of the Red Planet, making its images an optimal starting point for scientists when they are creating a map. A bit like hunting for a needle in a haystack and putting together a puzzle at the same time, mapmaking requires downloading and sifting through a large selection of images to find those with the same lighting conditions and clear skies.

To create the new mosaic, Dickson developed an algorithm to match images based on the features they captured. He manually stitched together the remaining 13,000 images that the algorithm could not match. The remaining gaps in the mosaic represent parts of Mars that had not been imaged by CTX by the time Dickson started working on this project, or areas obscured by clouds or dust.

Laura Kerber, a Mars scientist at JPL, provided feedback on the new mosaic as it took shape. “I’ve wanted something like this for a long time,” Kerber said. “It’s both a beautiful product of art and also useful for science.”

Kerber recently used the image to visit her favorite spot on Mars: Medusae Fossae, a dusty region about the size of Mongolia. Scientists are unsure exactly how it formed; Kerber has proposed it might be a pile of ash from a nearby volcano. At the click of a button on the CTX mosaic, she can zoom in and admire ancient river channels, now dry, winding through the landscape there.

Users can also jump to regions like Gale Crater and Jezero Crater—areas being explored by NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers—or visit Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, adding topographic data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor mission. One of the mosaic’s coolest features highlights impact craters across the entire planet, allowing viewers to see just how scarred Mars is.

“For 17 years, MRO has been revealing Mars to us as no one had seen it before,” said the mission’s project scientist, Rich Zurek of JPL. “This mosaic is a wonderful new way to explore some of the imagery that we’ve collected.”

The mosaic was funded as part of NASA’s Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration and Tools (PDART) program, which helps develop new ways to use existing NASA data. The scientific products of extended missions like MRO are exactly what the program was designed to make more accessible.

More About MRO

JPL manages MRO for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Caltech, in Pasadena, manages JPL for NASA. The University of Arizona, in Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., in Boulder, Colorado. The Context Camera was built by, and is operated by, Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego.


Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/Caltech/MSSS

Release Date: April 5, 2023


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NASA's Artemis II Moon Crew Revealed

NASA's Artemis II Moon Crew Revealed

NASA announced on Monday, April 3, 2023, in Houston, Texas, that four astronauts have been selected for NASA’s Artemis II Mission: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.  

Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.

Learn more about Artemis II:

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

1. Victor Glover is part of the 2013 class of NASA astronauts and was the pilot for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission. He has logged 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 different aircraft, and will pilot NASA's Orion spacecraft around the Moon.

NASA Astronaut Victor Glover Official Biography

2. Mission specialist Christina Koch visited the International Space Station in 2019, where she took part in the first all-woman spacewalk. She began her career as an electrical engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/christina-h-koch

3. Representing the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on Artemis II to the Moon is Jeremy Hansen from London, Ontario. Jeremy Hansen was an air force pilot before joining CSA, and currently works with NASA on astronaut training and mission operations. This will be Hansen’s first space mission.

Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen Official Biography

https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/canadian/active/bio-jeremy-hansen.asp

4. Reid Wiseman lived and worked aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer in 2014. He also commanded the undersea research mission NEEMO21, and most recently served as chief of NASA's astronauts.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/reid-g-wiseman


Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/James Blair/Bill Stafford

Duration: 3 minutes

Image Date: April 3, 2023


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NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Crew Announcement Day

NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Crew Announcement Day

Artemis II Mission Crew
Artemis II Mission Commander Reid Wiseman
Artemis II Mission Pilot Victor Glover
Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Koch
Artemis II Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen (Canada)
NASA's International Astronaut Corps

NASA announced on Monday, April 3, 2023, in Houston, Texas, that four astronauts have been selected for NASA’s Artemis II mission: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.  

Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.

Learn more about Artemis II:

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

1. Victor Glover is part of the 2013 class of NASA astronauts and was the pilot for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission. He has logged 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 different aircraft, and will pilot NASA's Orion spacecraft around the Moon.

NASA Astronaut Victor Glover Official Biography

2. Mission specialist Christina Koch visited the International Space Station in 2019, where she took part in the first all-woman spacewalk. She began her career as an electrical engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/christina-h-koch

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/christina-hammock-koch/biography

3. Representing the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on Artemis II to the Moon is Jeremy Hansen from London, Ontario. Jeremy Hansen was an air force pilot before joining CSA, and currently works with NASA on astronaut training and mission operations. This will be Hansen’s first space mission.

Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen Official Biography

https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/canadian/active/bio-jeremy-hansen.asp

4. Reid Wiseman lived and worked aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer in 2014. He also commanded the undersea research mission NEEMO21, and most recently served as chief of NASA's astronauts.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/reid-g-wiseman

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/g-reid-wiseman/biography


Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/James Blair/Bill Stafford

Image Date: April 3, 2023


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Tuesday, April 04, 2023

NASA's Artemis II Moon Crew: First Live TV Interview | ABC News

NASA's Artemis II Moon Crew: First Live TV Interview | ABC News

ABC News' Gio Benitez sat down with the first astronauts set to orbit the moon in more than 50 years. Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch and Reid Wiseman of NASA and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency make up the Artemis II team that will fly around the moon. Koch will be the first woman and Glover will be the first person of color who will eventually go on to step foot on the lunar surface.

They spoke with ABC News' Gio Benitez on "ABC News Live" Monday afternoon about their upcoming mission as well as their excitement.

"I think the thing that's most going through our minds right now is the team," said Wiseman, who will be the commander of the flight. "This is a huge effort for NASA for the United States of America, for Canada, for the whole world. And it's great to have this tiny step completed today. And we are really pumped to take on this challenge."

Koch made history with fellow astronaut Jessica Mer in October 2019 when they performed the first all-female spacewalk together. 

Koch was also selected as an astronaut in 2013 and has completed six spacewalks. She currently holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman at 328 days.

"The thing about records is that it's not about any one individual's success or contribution even," she said. "It's about the fact that it marks a milestone of where we're at and where we're choosing to go."

Read full ABC article here: https://abcn.ws/411FxxP


Credit: ABC News

Duration: 11 minutes

Release Date: April 3, 2023


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NASA Astronaut Jessica Watkins Visits Howard University

NASA Astronaut Jessica Watkins Visits Howard University

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins gives a presentation about her time in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68.
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins receives an award after giving a presentation about her time in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68, Friday, March 31, 2023, at Howard University. 
Howard University student Nathan Roseboro gives NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins a demonstration of his work with lasers during a tour of the Nuclear and Particle Physics Detector Laboratory at Howard University.
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins poses for a photo with a student after giving a presentation about her time in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68.
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins answers a question after giving a presentation about her time in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68.
Howard University students Elise Turner, left, and Kaie Hall, center, give NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins a tour of a biology laboratory at Howard University.
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins tours a biology laboratory after giving a presentation.
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins presents Howard University Professor, Dr. Prabhakar Misra, left, and Howard University Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dr. Quinton Williams, right, with a montage from her time as part of Expeditions 67 and 68 aboard the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins gave a presentation about her time in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68 on the International Space Station, Friday, March 31, 2023, during a visit to Howard University in Washington. 

Jessica Watkins Official Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jessica-watkins/biography

Howard University
Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. It offers undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees in more than 120 programs, more than any other historically black college or university (HBCU) in the nation. [Wikipedia]

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/Aubrey Gemignani

Image Date: March 31, 2023


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Astronautas de la NASA comparten su experiencia en la estación espacial

Astronautas de la NASA comparten su experiencia en la estación espacial

Recientemente en la NASA, la versión en español de las cápsulas This Week at NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la NASA. 

Ciencia de la NASA: https://ciencia.nasa.gov/

Boletín semanal: https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete 


Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes

Original Broadcast Date: 31/03/23

Release Date: April 3, 2023 


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NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Crew Photo Gallery

NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Crew Photo Gallery

Artemis II Mission Pilot Victor Glover
Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Koch
Artemis II Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen (Canada)
Artemis II Mission Commander Reid Wiseman
Artemis II Mission Pilot Victor Glover
Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Koch
Artemis II Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen (Canada)
Artemis II Mission Commander Reid Wiseman

Four astronauts have been selected for NASA’s Artemis II mission: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.  

Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.

Learn more about Artemis II: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii

1. Victor Glover is part of the 2013 class of NASA astronauts and was the pilot for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission. He has logged 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 different aircraft, and will pilot NASA's Orion spacecraft around the Moon.

NASA Astronaut Victor Glover Official Biography

2. Mission specialist Christina Koch visited the International Space Station in 2019, where she took part in the first all-woman spacewalk. She began her career as an electrical engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/christina-h-koch

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/christina-hammock-koch/biography

3. Representing the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on Artemis II to the Moon is Jeremy Hansen from London, Ontario. Jeremy Hansen was an air force pilot before joining CSA, and currently works with NASA on astronaut training and mission operations. This will be Hansen’s first space mission.

Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen Official Biography

https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/canadian/active/bio-jeremy-hansen.asp

4. Reid Wiseman lived and worked aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer in 2014. He also commanded the undersea research mission NEEMO21, and most recently served as chief of NASA's astronauts.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/reid-g-wiseman

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/g-reid-wiseman/biography


Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Image Release Date: April 3, 2023


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Planetary Defense: Near-Earth Asteroid Discoveries for April 2023 | NASA 360

Planetary Defense: Near-Earth Asteroid Discoveries for April 2023 | NASA 360

☄️ What do we know about the asteroids and comets in Earth's neighborhood? Planetary defense —which includes finding, tracking, and characterizing these near-Earth objects—is part of our mission. Here's what we've found so far.

Learn more about Planetary Defense at NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense


Credit: NASA 360

Duration: 1 minutes, 19 seconds

Release Date: April 4, 2023


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Ingenuity Helicopter Inspires Future Flights on Mars | NASA/JPL

Ingenuity Helicopter Inspires Future Flights on Mars | NASA/JPL 

Mars Report - April 2023: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet—and its inspiring future aerial exploration of the Red Planet, too. In this Mars Report, Ingenuity Team Lead Teddy Tzanetos at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides an update on the helicopter’s achievements and future plans. 

This video shows testing for Sample Recovery Helicopters, which could serve as a backup retrieval system for Mars Sample Return, a campaign that intends to retrieve samples taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover for study here on Earth. These next-generation helicopters would be able to pick up and carry sample tubes in flight and also drive on the Martian surface.

Another future helicopter concept is the Mars Science Helicopter, a proposed six-rotor “hexacopter” that would be about the size of the Perseverance rover. It would bring important payloads to areas of Mars that are not currently accessible. 

For more information on Ingenuity, go to: mars.nasa.gov/ingenuity 

For more information on the Mars Sample Retrieval Helicopters, go to: mars.nasa.gov/msr/

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.

Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity)

Launch: July 30, 2020    

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


Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Duration: 2 minutes, 39 seconds

Release Date: April 4, 2023


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NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Crew: Media Interview

NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Crew: Media Interview

The newly announced Artemis II astronauts, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman (Commander), NASA astronaut Victor Glover (Pilot), NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch (Mission Specialist), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen (Mission Specialist), participated in a round of live media interviews on Tuesday, April 4, 202, from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. 

Artemis II is the first crewed mission aboard NASA’s foundational human deep space capabilities: the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and the ground systems needed to launch them. The approximately 10-day mission will test and stress the Orion spacecraft’s life-support systems to prove the capabilities and techniques required to live and work in deep space in ways only humans can do.

Learn more about Artemis II: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 7 minutes, 35 seconds

Release Date: April 4, 2023


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New European Space Agency Astronaut Candidates Start Basic Training

New European Space Agency Astronaut Candidates Start Basic Training

Australian astronaut candidate Katherine Bennell-Pegg, joined European astronaut candidates on their first day at the European Astronaut Centre




Astronaut candidate Rosemary Coogan (UK)


Astronaut candidate Sophie Adenot (France)


Astronaut candidate Pablo Álvarez Fernández (Spain)


Astronaut candidate Marco Sieber (Switzerland)


Astronaut candidate Raphaël Liégeois (Belgium)

The European Space Agency's newly selected astronaut candidates of the class of 2022 arrived at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany, on April 3, 2023, to begin their 12-month basic training.

The group of five candidates, Sophie Adenot (France), Pablo Álvarez Fernández (Spain), Rosemary Coogan (UK), Raphaël Liégeois (Belgium), and Marco Sieber (Switzerland), are part of the 17-member astronaut class of 2022, selected from 22,500 applicants from across European Space Agency (ESA) Member States in November 2022.

The astronaut candidates will be trained to the highest level of standards in preparation for future space missions. During basic training, this includes learning all about space exploration, technical and scientific disciplines, space systems and operations, as well as spacewalk and survival training.

ESA astronaut candidate Rosemary Coogan (UK) Biography

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Rosemary_Coogan

ESA astronaut candidate Sophie Adenot (France) Biography

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Sophie_Adenot

ESA astronaut candidate Pablo Álvarez Fernández (Spain) Biography

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Pablo_Alvarez_Fernandez

ESA astronaut candidate Marco Sieber (Switzerland) Biography

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Marco_Alain_Sieber

ESA astronaut candidate Raphaël Liégeois (Belgium) Biography

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Raphael_Liegeois


Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

Image Capture Date: April 3, 2023


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Monday, April 03, 2023

NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Crew: Meet the Astronauts

NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Crew: Meet the Astronauts

Four astronauts have been selected for NASA’s Artemis II mission: Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.  

Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.

Learn more about Artemis II: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii


Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producers: Gary Jordan, Sami Aziz, Dane Turner

Video: Charles Clendaniel, Josh Valcarcel, Chase Gibson

Editor: Justin Herring

Audio: Daniel Tohill, Will Flato

Duration: 3 minutes, 19 seconds

Release Date: April 3, 2023


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Reid Wiseman Mission Commander Profile | NASA Artemis II Moon Mission

Reid Wiseman Mission Commander Profile | NASA Artemis II Moon Mission

On April 3, 2023, Reid Wiseman was announced as the commander for the Artemis II mission. Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface. 

This video includes interview footage and B-roll recorded in 2023 as well as highlights from his mission to the International Space Station in 2014.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/reid-g-wiseman

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/g-reid-wiseman/biography

Learn more about the Artemis II Mission:

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 9 minutes, 35 seconds

Release Date: April 3, 2023


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Jeremy Hansen Mission Specialist Profile | NASA Artemis II Moon Mission

Jeremy Hansen Mission Specialist Profile | NASA Artemis II Moon Mission

On April 3, 2023, Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) was announced as a mission specialist for the Artemis II mission. Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface. 

This video includes interview footage and b-roll recorded in 2023, astronaut training footage, and mission support footage.

Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen Official Biography

https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/canadian/active/bio-jeremy-hansen.asp

Learn more about the Artemis II Mission:

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 9 minutes

Release Date: April 3, 2023


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