NASA News

2022-06-23 23:11:37 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Sets Live Launch Coverage for CAPSTONE Mission to Moon" NASA will air live launch coverage of the agency’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE), the first spacecraft to fly a specific unique lunar orbit ahead of future missions with crew. [June 23, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-sets-live-launch-coverage-for-capstone-mission-to-moon Open / Comment

2022-06-23 20:22:19 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA to Discuss Status of Artemis I Moon Mission" NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, June 24, to discuss next steps for the Artemis I mission with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. [June 23, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-discuss-status-of-artemis-i-moon-mission-0 Open / Comment

2022-06-23 19:43:23 #NewReport from #ISS : "ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/22/2022" European Robotic Arm (ERA) Operations: Today, by successfully grappling to base point 3, the ERA Mission 2 was completed. ERA Mission 2 was intended to be completed during RS Extravehicular Activity (EVA) # 53 which occurred in April; however, ERA was unable to complete the grapple to base point 3. In this position, ERA is Open / Comment

2022-06-23 16:09:25 #NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Mirrors Aligned: Webb Telescope’s First Full-Color Images Due in July" We're counting down to the release of the Webb Telescope’s first full-color images! [June 23, 2022] http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51942282534_19d5470826_o_0.jpeg Open / Comment

2022-06-23 07:21:58 #NewImage from #Nasa: "Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744" Beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies some 30 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo but appears as only a faint, extended object in small telescopes. We see the disk of the nearby island universe tilted towards our line of sight in this remarkably detailed galaxy portrait, a telescopic view that spans an area about the angular size of a full moon. In it, the giant galaxy's elongated yellowish core is dominated by the light from old, cool stars. Beyond the core, grand spiral arms are filled with young blue star clusters and speckled with pinkish star forming regions. An extended arm sweeps past smaller satellite galaxy NGC 6744A at the lower right. NGC 6744's galactic companion is reminiscent of the Milky Way's satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud. [June 23, 2022] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2206/NGC6744_chakrabarti1024R.jpg Open / Comment

2022-06-23 00:31:36 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Administrator Announces Next NAC Meeting, New Members" NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Wednesday the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) will convene its next meeting on August 9-10. Nelson also appointed new members to the NAC, who will provide leadership counsel and advice on agency programs and priorities. [June 22, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-announces-next-nac-meeting-new-members Open / Comment

2022-06-22 23:16:32 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Awards Contracts for Mission Enabling Services" NASA has awarded the Mission Enabling Services Contract (MESC), which consists of five individual contracts, to four companies to support highly specialized mission-enabling spaceflight and aircraft management services within the Flight Operations Directorate at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. [June 22, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-contracts-for-mission-enabling-services Open / Comment

2022-06-22 22:31:01 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Introduces 2022 Class of Flight Directors" NASA has selected seven new additions to the team of flight directors to oversee operations of the International Space Station, commercial crew, and Artemis missions to the Moon. [June 22, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-introduces-2022-class-of-flight-directors Open / Comment

2022-06-22 22:26:30 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "La NASA presenta sus nuevos directores de vuelo" La NASA ha seleccionado a siete nuevos miembros para su cuadro de directores de vuelo, para supervisar las operaciones de las misiones de la Estación Espacial Internacional, de la tripulación comercial y del programa Artemis. [June 22, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/la-nasa-presenta-sus-nuevos-directores-de-vuelo Open / Comment

2022-06-22 17:38:40 #NewReport from #ISS : "ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/21/2022" European Robotic Arm (ERA) Operations: Today by adjusting and moving the angle of the ERA arms, ERA checkout and telemetry operations were completed successfully. ERA is located on MLM and is the intended to be the primary equipment for servicing the electromechanical systems on the Russian Segment once it completes commissioning. Payloads: EXpedite the PRocessing of Experiments Open / Comment