Overview of our Artemis I mission to the Moon…
A new image of our[{” attribute=””>James Webb Space Telescope …
And an anniversary for one of our explorers on Mars … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at
NASA presents the Artemis I Moon mission
We previewed our uncrewed Artemis I mission to the Moon during two briefings. On August 3, agency officials at NASA Headquarters and other NASA centers provided a “general overview” of the mission.
“Artemis I shows that we can do great things. Things that unite people, things that benefit humanity. Things like Apollo that inspire the world. — Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator
This was followed two days later by a deeper dive into the mission’s timeline and operations from our Johnson Space Center. The agency is currently targeting a Monday, Aug. 29, earliest launch of the Space Launch System rocket to send the Orion spacecraft around the moon and back to Earth. Artemis I will take about six weeks to check out systems before astronauts fly aboard the spacecraft on Artemis II.
This image of the cartwheel and its companion galaxies is a composite of Webb’s near-infrared camera (NIRCam) and mid-infrared instrument (MIRI), which reveals details difficult to see in individual images alone.
This galaxy was formed as a result of a high-speed collision that occurred about 400 million years ago. The cartwheel is made up of two rings, a shiny inner ring and a colored outer ring. The two rings extend outward from the center of the collision like shock waves. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
Webb captures a new image of the Cartwheel galaxy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope produced this detailed new image of the Cartwheel Galaxy and two smaller galaxies. The Cartwheel galaxy, located about 500 million light-years away from us, is a rare type of galaxy that astronomers call a “ring galaxy.” The Cartwheel galaxy is believed to have been a normal spiral galaxy like our[{” attribute=””>Milky Way before a collision with another galaxy affected the Cartwheel Galaxy’s shape and structure.
Stay curious with NASA and celebrate the agency’s Curiosity Mars rover’s 10th anniversary on the Red Planet with a two-sided poster that lists some of the intrepid explorer’s inspiring accomplishments. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
After 10 years on
A collage of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 from left to right, top to bottom: NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina. Credit: NASA
The Next Commercial Crew Launch to the Space Station
The launch of our
Actor Nichelle Nichols, who died July 30, 2022, didn’t just break new ground on “Star Trek” by playing one of the first leading recurring Black female characters on U.S. television. A decade after the show ended, she did the same for NASA, appearing in a promotional film aimed at recruiting women and people of color to apply to be astronauts, as she recounted in a 2012 visit to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The next astronaut class, appointed in 1978, included Guy Bluford, the first Black American in space, and Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. Credit: NASA
