Crew-3 astronauts arrive at the launch site; an important milestone in the lunar water ice search for rovers; a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of Jupiter's atmosphere... The latest news feed is available at "NASA of the Week"!
Astronauts from NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 26 for their final pre-launch activities.
NASA's Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, as well as European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer, will travel to the space station aboard a SpaceX crewed Dragon spacecraft called Endurance.
Crew-3 mission four astronauts, from left to right, in order of Commander Raja Chari, Pilot Thomas Mashburn, ESA Mission Specialist Matthias Maurer, NASA Mission Specialist Kayla Barron. It was the first spaceflight of Chari, Barron and Mauer, and pilot Marshburn, who traveled to the International Space Station in 2009 and 2013, was its third spaceflight.
Due to weather reasons, the SpaceX Crew-3 mission was postponed to 13:10 Beijing time on November 3.
Credit：NASA/SpaceX
Kayla Barron: "This is actually the first time I've seen a rocket launch with my own eyes, and I'm going to sit in the spaceship cabin on top of it. So I'm very excited about the whole experience, very excited about the next phase of work we're doing in the Artemis program, and the space station is a great platform to help us prepare for these tasks. ”
Raja Chari: "We often think of ourselves as astronauts, we have been training, and now what we see is the rocket spacecraft entity, and the next time we see the International Space Station is the real International Space Station." So, I think it's really cool to do this week. "Crew-3 is the third crew rotation flight to the space station through NASA's Commercial Crew Program with the help of the Dragon spacecraft, and the overall fourth crew flight to the space station, including demo-2 test flights. For more information on tasks, please visit nasa.gov/commercialcrew.
Credits: NASA/Daniel Rutter
NASA's VIPER Lunar Movement Probe has passed its Critical Design Review (CDR), a development milestone that moves the mission from lunar rover design to probe construction. VIPER will be shipped to the moon through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services to explore water ice and other resources to provide information for future Artemis missions to the moon.
On the left is an infrared map and on the right is visible light.
Credit：NASA
Several scientific papers have been published highlighting new discoveries from NASA's Juno Jupiter mission that provide clues to how Jupiter's colorful and unique atmospheric features provide clues to difficult-to-observe phenomenal processes deep beneath Jupiter's clouds. Juno's microwave radiometer (MWR) allowed mission scientists to see beneath the clouds and explore for the first time the structure of Jupiter's many storm vortexes, including Jupiter's Great Red Spot. For more information, please visit: nasa.gov/juno.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may be the first to detect signs of an exoplanet flying over a star outside the Milky Way.
Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss
This possible exoplanet (an extrasolar planet) is located in the spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51) and is about 28 million light-years from Earth.
That's thousands of times farther away than all other known exoplanet and exoplanet candidates, because all of these exoplanets before were inside the Milky Way. For more details, please visit nasa.gov/chandra.
Just in time for Halloween, NASA's latest horror galaxy poster shows a "scorched" exoplanet orbiting so close to its star that atmospheric temperatures have soared to about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius).
Credit:NASA
Creepy dark energy that can propel galaxies deep into a pitch-black outer space, causing them to "freeze to death."
Free downloads of the above posters (including English and Spanish versions) are available exoplanets.nasa.gov/galaxy.
NASA's Stennis Space Center is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the announcement of a NASA program to build a site in southern Mississippi to test the Apollo rocket stage and engines, a test station that once became the Stanis Space Center today.
Credit: NASA/Stennis Space Center
After Apollo, the center tested the main engine of each space shuttle mission and continues to play a key role today: testing the engines and other hardware of the Space Launch System rocket for the upcoming Artemis mission to the moon.
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reference:
[1] The Crew-3 Astronauts Arrive at the Launch Site on This Week @NASA – October 29, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=larBkDpbgx0
[2] NASA’s Juno: Science Results Offer First 3D View of Jupiter Atmosphere
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-juno-science-results-offer-first-3d-view-of-jupiter-atmosphere/
[3] Galaxy of Horrors
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/galaxy-of-horrors/