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Pam Melroy Sworn in as NASA Deputy Administrator
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- Pam Melroy Sworn in as NASA Deputy Administrator
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- 2:51
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- 5 years ago
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- NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy took office Monday after she was given the oath of office by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson during a ceremony at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington on June 21, 2021.
Melroy was nominated in April by President Biden and confirmed by the Senate on June 17. Along with Nelson, Melroy is responsible for providing overall leadership, planning, and policy direction for NASA.
One of only two women to command a space shuttle, Melroy logged more than 38 days in space. All three of her missions were assembly missions to build the International Space Station. After serving more than two decades in the Air Force and as a NASA astronaut, Melroy took on a number of leadership roles, including at Lockheed Martin, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Nova Systems Pty, Australia, and as an advisor to the Australian Space Agency. She currently is an independent consult...
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- Spacewalk to Install New International Space Station Solar Arrays
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- 8:11:00
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- 5 years ago
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- SPACEWALK COMING SOON: Join us live from space on Sun. June 20 at 6:30 a.m. EDT (10:30 UTC) to cheer on NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet as they continue work installing new, roll-up solar arrays on the International Space Station. Once their spacesuits are set to battery power around 8 a.m. EDT (12:00 UTC), the duo will spend about 6.5 hours in the vacuum of space on this demanding task.
Set a reminder to watch this special job performed live!
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- Installing New Solar Arrays for the Space Station on This Week @NASA – June 18, 2021
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- 3:42
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- 5 years ago
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- Installing new solar arrays for the space station, updating launch and landing dates for Commercial Crew, and NASA’s new deputy administrator is confirmed … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-Installing%20New%20Solar%20Arrays%20for%20the%20Space%20Station%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20June%2018,%202021
Producer: Andre Valentine
Editor: Lacey Young
Music: Universal Production Music
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- The Power of Active Allyship @ NASA
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- 58:35
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Join us on June 17, 2021 at 2 p.m. EDT for a conversation in honor of National LGBTQ+ Pride Month about what it means to be an ally, understanding some of the barriers faced by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community, and what you as an active ally can do to help break down those barriers. The panel discussion will be moderated by Charles Cockrell, associate director for strategy at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, and will feature:
• Melanie Saunders, NASA deputy associate administrator
• Sarah J. Phillips, visual information specialist for the Image Technology Center at NASA’s Glenn Research Center
• Ron Brade, retired associate center director at NASA’s Ames Research Center
• Donna Shafer, associate center director at NASA’s Johnson Space Center
The event is sponsored by the LGBTQ+ Employee Alliance Group at NASA’s Langley Research Center, the LGBT Advisory Council at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center...
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- Spacewalk to Install New International Space Station Solar Arrays
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- 9:23:14
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- 5 years ago
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- After more than 20 years, the International Space Station is getting new solar arrays, and you have the chance to watch it LIVE during a spacewalk! On June 16, Shane Kimbrough of NASA Astronauts and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency will venture into the vacuum of space for ~6.5 hours to install and deploy two roll-out solar arrays on the space station.
Coverage starts at 6:30 a.m. EDT (10:30 UTC). Set a reminder to watch this special job performed live!
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- Name the Artemis Moonikin
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- 0:40
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- 5 years ago
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- Choose your player! NASA is holding a naming contest beginning Wednesday, June 16 for the manikin that will fly on an upcoming mission around the Moon.
As NASA gears up for the Artemis I mission around the Moon that will pave the way to send the first woman and the first person of color to the lunar surface, we have an important task for you (yes, you!). Artemis I will be an uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft ahead of the first flight with crew on Artemis II. We want your help to select a name for the suited manikin, or Moonikin in this case, that will fly aboard Orion to help gather data before missions with astronauts!
We have eight names to choose from, but only one can win. Every other day starting Wednesday, June 16, we will be asking you on @NASAArtemis Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, to vote between one of two names. The winners of each bracket compete with one another until the final showdown on Monday, J...
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- 'Why Does NASA Exist?' – William Shatner Reads Ray Bradbury
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- 4:17
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- 5 years ago
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- William Shatner, Star Trek's Captain Kirk, reads Ray Bradbury's poem 'Witness and Celebrate NASA's Future.' The poem was written by Bradbury in 2000 for the NASA Art Program.
Editor: Lacey Young
Music: Universal Production Music
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- Making Progress on Our Artemis Moon Rocket on This Week @NASA – June 11, 2021
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- 3:50
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- 5 years ago
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- Making progress on our Artemis Moon rocket, images from a close encounter with a Jovian moon, and a ring of fire for our Moon … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-Making%20Progress%20on%20Our%20Artemis%20Moon%20Rocket%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20June%2011,%202021
Video Credits
Producer/Writer: Andre Valentine
Editor: Amy Leniart
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- NASA Science Live: Engineering Human Tissue
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- 57:45
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- 5 years ago
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- Teams across the country have been competing for years to be the first to engineer functional human tissue in a lab. Now, scientists have accomplished this medical feat by creating thick vascularized human organ tissue, which could have profound implications both on Earth and off. Join us LIVE on Wednesday, June 9 at 3:00 p.m. ET, as we announce the official winner of NASA's Vascular Tissue Challenge. Have questions? Use #askNASA
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- NASA: We Are American Ingenuity
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- 4:06
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- 5 years ago
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- NASA is more than astronauts. We are scientists, engineers, IT specialists, human resources specialists, accountants, writers, technicians, and many other kinds of people working together to break barriers to achieve the seemingly impossible.
Learn more here: https://www.nasa.gov/careers
Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-We%20Are%20American%20Ingenuity
CREDITS:
Producer/Editor: Amy Leniart
Music Credit: Universal Production Music
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- New Venus Missions Announced on This Week @NASA – June 4, 2021
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- 3:33
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- 5 years ago
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- Learn about two new future missions to Venus and other reasons why the State of NASA is strong and exciting, launching supplies to the space station, and more good news for OSIRIS-REx … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-New%20Venus%20Missions%20Announced%20on%20This%20Week%20@%20NASA%20-%20June%204,%202021
Producer: Andre Valentine
Editor: Lacey Young
Music: Universal Production Music
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- Introducing NASA’s NEW Earth System Observatory
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- 4:36
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- NASA is introducing the Earth System Observatory – an array of satellites, instruments and missions that are going to collect a series of critical observations. These observations will better inform us of how our planet is changing with greater precision on unimaginable scales – from entire continents down to individual trees.
Each mission in itself will deliver important environmental measurements. Taken together, as a single Observatory, we will have a holistic, 3-dimensional understanding of our Earth’s systems – how they work together, how one change can influence another.
Learn more here:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/new-nasa-earth-system-observatory-to-help-address-mitigate-climate-change
Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-Introducing%20NASA%E2%80%99s%20NEW%20Earth%20System%20Observatory
Voice Over: Soledad O'Brien
Video Producer: Sonnet Apple
Music Credit: Universal Produc...
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- NASA Science Live: We’re Going to Venus - NASA Selects Two New Missions
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- 58:35
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Venus, our planetary neighbor, is a hot, hellish unforgiving world. Its toxic atmosphere and sweltering surface make it a challenging place to study, and it’s been over 3 decades since NASA visited Earth’s evil twin...until now! NASA is sending two bold new missions to study this inferno-like world: DAVINCI+ and VERITAS. Join mission experts Thursday, June 3 at 3:00 p.m. ET on #NASAScience Live and submit your questions for them to answer using #askNASA.
Meet the experts:
Dr. James Garvin is the Principal Investigator for the DAVINCI+ mission. His lifelong passion for Venus began in the Fall of 1979 and he says having the DAVINCI+ mission selected is a dream come true. Dr. Garvin is looking forward to exploring many exciting areas of Venus but says that it will be epic to see the Venus mountains at human scales in 3D with DAVINCI+. When he’s not dreaming about going to Venus, Dr. Garvin loves taking walks with his wife and their dog Glenda and watching ice ho...
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- Watch SpaceX Launch Research & Supplies to the International Space Station (Official NASA Broadcast)
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- 56:30
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- 5 years ago
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- Starting at 1 p.m. EDT (17:00 UTC), Thurs., June 3, tune in for coverage of the 22nd SpaceX cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff is scheduled at 1:29 p.m. EDT (17:29 UTC) for the Falcon 9 rocket and Cargo Dragon spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
What's on board? Science heading to the space station includes an experiment that could help develop better treatments for kidney disease on Earth, and a study of cotton root systems that could identify varieties of plants that require less water and pesticides. A study of bobtail squid will examine the effects of spaceflight on interactions between beneficial microbes and their animal hosts, while another will examine the adaptation of microscopic tardigrades (water bears) to conditions in low-Earth orbit, which could help us better understand stress factors affecting humans in space.
Dragon’s unpressurized trunk section will deliver the first two ...
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- SpaceX's CRS-22 Mission to the Space Station: What's On Board
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- 3:19
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- 5 years ago
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- Scientists and students shared their work that is launching on SpaceX’s 22nd commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station during a What’s on Board briefing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Studies include an investigation of how microscopic water bears react to life in microgravity, and an experiment aimed at giving scientists fundamental knowledge of how good microbes interact with animal tissue. Students from the Robertsville Middle School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee discussed RamSat, a student-built CubeSat designed to track vegetation regrowth after wildfires.
The SpaceX CRS-22 mission is scheduled to launch to the orbiting laboratory on June 3.
Learn more about the science on this mission: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/spacex-22-research-highlights/
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- State of NASA Address from Administrator Bill Nelson
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- 41:45
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- 5 years ago
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- On June 2 at 3 p.m. EDT, join NASA Administrator Bill Nelson to learn about our plans for future climate science missions, a robotic and human return to the Moon through our Artemis program, and more during a #StateOfNASA event. Following his remarks, Nelson and other senior leaders provide updates about human exploration and operations, aeronautics research, space technology, science, and mission support.
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- NASA's Return to Venus
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- 1:32
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- 5 years ago
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- Venus, our planetary neighbor, is a hot, hellish unforgiving world and NASA has selected two bold new missions to study this inferno-like planet: DAVINCI+ and VERITAS. Are Venus and Earth fundamentally unique worlds? Or are the differences between these ‘twins’ only cosmetic? Answering this question is key to understanding what makes other rocky planets habitable and, ultimately, emerge with life.
Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NASA's%20Return%20to%20Venus
Learn more about NASA’s newest Discovery missions: https://go.nasa.gov/NewVenusMissions
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- The Release of NASA’s Budget Request on This Week @NASA – May 28, 2021
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- 3:05
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The release of NASA’s budget request, a new set of Earth-focused missions, and new research findings about Jupiter’s moon Europa … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-The%20Release%20of%20NASA's%20Budget%20Request%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20-%20May%2028,%202021
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- An Addition to a Future Commercial Crew Mission on This Week @NASA – May 21, 2021
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- 4:44
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- 5 years ago
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- An addition to a future Commercial Crew mission, our administrator discusses the budget request for NASA, and NASA’s deputy administrator nominee appears before the Senate … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-An%20Addition%20to%20a%20Future%20Commercial%20Crew%20Mission%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20May%2021,%202021
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- Gravity Assist: Listening to the Universe
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- 3:48
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- 5 years ago
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- NASA spacecraft deliver stunning visual imagery of the cosmos, but we can also experience that data by turning it into sound. Kim Arcand at the Chandra X-Ray Observatory has helped develop many different sonifications including from galaxies, black holes, nebulae and more. Kim chats with NASA’s Chief Scientist Jim Green about her process of choosing instruments to represent different kinds of light, and plays a few examples of these cosmic sounds. Kim developed these sonifications in collaboration with astrophysicist Matt Russo and musician Andrew Santaguida, both of the SYSTEM Sound project. Check out the full series of sonifications at chandra.si.edu/sound and listen to the rest of this Gravity Assist podcast episode at nasa.gov/gravityassist.
Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-Gravity%20Assist%20Listening%20to%20the%20Universe
Producer Credit: Lacey Young and Elizabeth Landau
Audio Engineer: Manny Cooper
Music Credit: Universal Pro...
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- NASA Astronauts Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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- 13:40
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- 5 years ago
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- Each May, NASA commemorates #AAPIHeritageMonth to recognize the significant contributions of the Asian and Pacific Islander community.
This year, NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson and NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Jonny Kim, Kjell Lindgren, and Sunita Williams bring their perspectives around this year’s theme of Advancing Leaders Through Purpose-Driven Service. Hear their stories of resilience, leading with values, and making a difference by serving others and focusing on a bigger mission to make the world a better place.
Discover more stories: https://www.nasa.gov/image-gallery/asian-pacific-american-heritage
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- Science Launching on SpaceX's 22nd Cargo Resupply Mission to the Space Station
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- 1:53
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- 5 years ago
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- The 22nd SpaceX cargo resupply mission carrying scientific research and technology demonstrations launches to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than June 3. Experiments aboard include studying how water bears tolerate space, whether microgravity affects symbiotic relationships, analyzing the formation of kidney stones, and more. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3tZdUV3
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- Samples of an Asteroid are Headed Back to Earth on This Week @NASA – May 14, 2021
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- 3:40
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- 5 years ago
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- Samples of an asteroid are headed back to Earth, a key prelaunch milestone for the Webb space telescope, and adding a third dimension to some cool imagery … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-Samples%20of%20an%20Asteroid%20are%20Headed%20Back%20to%20Earth%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20-%20May14,2021
Producer Credit: Andre Valentine
Editor: Sonnet Apple
Music: Universal Production Music/"Another Way of Winning"
Contents:
0:00 Introduction
0:13 Osiris-Rex heads to Earth
0:49 Webb's mirror opened one last time on Earth
1:19 Jurczyk retires
1:47 First private astronaut mission to space station
2:10 See Ingenuity fly in 3D
2:39 Viewing storm clouds in 3D
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- OSIRIS-REx Departure: Farewell to Asteroid Bennu
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- 48:51
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- 5 years ago
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- Join us live at 4 p.m. EDT, Mon., May 10, as our OSIRIS-REx mission bids farewell to near-Earth asteroid Bennu. At 4:16 p.m., the spacecraft will fire its main thrusters and start its long journey home, carrying precious asteroid material that it will return to Earth in 2023.
Watch the countdown to engine burn, as mission team members reflect on the challenges and success of studying and sampling Bennu. Members of the science team will also provide a look ahead to retrieving the sample of Bennu, and what it might tell us about the history of the solar system and our own origins.
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- A Record-Breaking Spaceflight for the Crew-1 Mission on This Week @NASA – May 7, 2021
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- 4:43
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- 5 years ago
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- A record-breaking spaceflight for the Crew-1 mission, swearing-in NASA’s new administrator, and the anniversary of the first American in space … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-A%20Record-Breaking%20Spaceflight%20for%20the%20Crew-1%20mission%20on%20This%20Week%20@%20NASA%20May%207,%202021
Producer Credit: Andre Valentine
Editor: Sonnet Apple
Music: Universal Production Music/"Another Way of Winning"
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- NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts Answer Questions After Return to Earth
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- 39:41
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts will answer questions at 3:45 p.m. EDT (19:45 UTC) Thursday, May 6, about their historic mission on the International Space Station and their return to Earth.
NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, returned to Earth at 2:56 a.m. EDT (6:56 UTC) on May 2 under the parachutes of their Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft.
The successful launch of Crew-1 in November 2020 was the first flight of a NASA-certified commercial human spacecraft system in history. Crew-1 is the first of six crewed missions NASA and SpaceX will fly as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which worked with the U.S. aerospace industry to return launches with astronauts on American rockets and spacecraft from American soil.
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- A Message from NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson to the NASA Workforce
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- 5:56
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- NASA's new administrator Sen. Bill Nelson shares his vision for NASA's future.
Nelson has an extensive history of working with NASA and has been integral to the agency’s current successes. Prior to his nomination, was a member-at-large on NASA’s advisory council. From 2001 to 2019, Nelson represented Florida in the U.S. Senate, where he served as ranking member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and led its Subcommittee on Science and Space.
Previously, Nelson represented Florida’s 9th and 11th districts in the U.S. House of Representatives. While chair of the House space subcommittee, Nelson flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia as a payload specialist on the STS-61C mission in 1986. The mission also included Bolden, as pilot.
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- 60 Years of Human Spaceflight: Launching The First American into Space
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- 3:01
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Sixty years ago, on May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. launched on the Freedom 7 mission, powered by a Mercury-Redstone rocket to become the first American in space. Shepard's flight lasted 15 minutes, 22 seconds. He later made it to the Moon on Apollo 14.
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- Exoplanets: Weird, Wondrous Worlds
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- There's a huge amount of variety among exoplanets – planets outside our solar system. There are water worlds, lava planets, egg-shaped worlds, planets with multiple suns, and even planets with no sun at all! What can we learn from all this weird, wondrous variety? What does it tell us about both the exoplanets themselves and our own home planet?
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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- NASA Astronauts Share Teacher Appreciation Week Message From the Space Station
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur share a special message during Teacher Appreciation Week while aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 200 miles above the Earth's surface.
Producer/Editor: Lacey Young
Music: Universal Production Music
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- NASA Science Live: Mars Helicopter and the Future of Extraterrestrial Flight
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- 29:40
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- On April 19, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter became the first spacecraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another world. This historic flight on Mars has implications for how we will explore other worlds. Join experts from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team and upcoming Dragonfly mission to learn about the future of extraterrestrial flight. Have questions? Use #askNASA.
Meet the guests:
Mr. Johnny Lam is an Ingenuity Mars Helicopter pilot at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mr. Lam always had an interest in math and science growing up, and enjoys getting to work on one-of-a-kind missions that are helping us to learn more about the universe. He is an avid frisbee player and has a family that is expecting their second baby soon. Mr. Lam has an exciting vision for how aerial vehicles could be used for exploration in the future. Watch the show to hear more about it!
Mr. Nishant Mehta is the Deputy Lead for the Dragonfly Mobility System ...
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- NASA Celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month 2021
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- 3:42
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Each May, NASA commemorates Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month to recognize the significant contributions of past and present employees of AAPI descent. Each of them embody the enduring and resilient spirit this community brings to advancing science, research, and discovery. Hear their stories.
Featured in the video:
Anthony Arviola – Langley Research Center
Han Woong (Brian) Bae – Marshall Space Flight Center
Kelly Busquets – Goddard Space Flight Center
Sarat Calmur – Langley Research Center
Gemma Flores – NASA Headquarters
Wensheng Huang – Glenn Research Center
Miki Kenji – Glenn Research Center
Alex Lin – Langley Research Center
Rita Melvin – Goddard Space Flight Center
Kartik Sheth – NASA Headquarters
Steve Shih – NASA Headquarters
Emilie Siochi – Langley Research Center
Jenny Staggs – Armstrong Flight Research Center
Githika Tondapu ...
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- Vice President Harris Swears in NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson
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- 3:56
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Sen. Bill Nelson took office as the 14th administrator of NASA on May 3, 2021, after he was given the oath of office by Vice President Kamala Harris during a ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington.
As part of the swearing-in ceremony, Vice President Harris and Nelson were joined via video conference by Jim Bridenstine, who preceded Nelson as administrator, and in-person by Charles F. Bolden, who served as administrator from 2009 to 2017. Nelson’s family and Pam Melroy, nominee for NASA deputy administrator, were guests at the ceremony.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Nelson to serve as the NASA administrator April 29.
Nelson has an extensive history of working with NASA and has been integral to the agency’s current successes. Prior to his nomination, was a member-at-large on NASA’s advisory council. From 2001 to 2019, Nelson represented Florida in the U.S. Senate, where he served as ranking member of the Committee...
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- Post-Splashdown News Update on NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 Mission
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- 33:41
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Crew-1 is home! Four astronauts are back on Earth after SpaceX's Crew Dragon Resilience splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida Sun., May 2 at 2:56 a.m. EDT (6:56 UTC). This was the first night splashdown of a U.S. crewed spacecraft since Apollo 8’s predawn return in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 27, 1968.
Tune in at 5 a.m. EDT (9:00 UTC) for a return to Earth news update with experts from NASA, SpaceX, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) from our Johnson Space Center in Houston. Participants are:
Kathy Lueders, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, Kennedy Space Center
Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station, Johnson
Holly Ridings, chief flight director, Johnson
Hans Koenigsmann, senior advisor, Flight Reliability, SpaceX
Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president and director genera...
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- NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 Mission Splashes Down
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- 1:58:44
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Four astronauts are on their way home. Join us for the final leg of their journey from the International Space Station back to Earth, as the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience re-enters Earth's atmosphere and splashes down at about 2:57 a.m. EDT (6:57 UTC) Sun., May 2, in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida.
Aboard the Crew Dragon are NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
This will be the first night splashdown of a U.S. crewed spacecraft since Apollo 8’s predawn return in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 27, 1968, with NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders.
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- NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 Undocking and Departure from International Space Station (Official Broadcast)
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- 2:04:16
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Watch continuing coverage of the Crew-1 return on NASA TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
The mission that certified the return of astronaut launches from the U.S. is coming home. Starting at 8:15 p.m. EDT Sat., May 1 (00:15 UTC Sun., May 2) join us LIVE from space to watch the Crew Dragon Resilience undock, with the four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 aboard: NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
Undocking from the International Space Station is scheduled at approximately 8:35 p.m. EDT Sat., May 1 (00:35 UTC Sun., May 2). NASA and SpaceX decided to move Crew-1’s undocking from Fri., April 30, following a review of the forecast weather conditions in the splashdown zones off the coast of Florida. Splashdown is now targeted for approximately 2:57 a.m. EDT (6:57 UTC) Sun., May 2.
During their six-month stay in orbit, the crew work...
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- NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 Hatch Closure & Farewell at International Space Station
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- 39:44
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The mission that certified the return of astronaut launches from the U.S. is coming home. Starting at 6 p.m. EDT (22:00 UTC) on Sat., May 1, join us LIVE from space to bid farewell to NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 crew members: NASA Astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
The hatch of their Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft is targeted to close at approximately 6:20 p.m. EDT (22:20 UTC).
NASA and SpaceX decided to move Crew-1’s undocking from Fri., April 30, following a review of the forecast weather conditions in the splashdown zones off the coast of Florida.
During their six-month stay in orbit, the crew worked on hundreds of science experiments to benefit humans in space and on Earth. Here are just a few: https://go.nasa.gov/3aoWxGn
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- With Much Ingenuity, We Soar Together
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Honoring the culture, tradition, and diversity of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, NASA celebrates the achievements of individuals and teams that support our missions every day.
With the recent milestone of performing the first-ever controlled, powered flight on another planet, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Project Manager MiMi Aung shares her experience and hopes for the younger generation.
Video Credits:
Producer/Editor: Jori Kates
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- Confirming the Nomination of NASA’s Next Administrator on This Week @NASA – April 30, 2021
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- 4:42
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Confirming the nomination of NASA’s next administrator, an update on a commercial crew mission, and remembering a spaceflight pioneer … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-Confirming%20the%20Nomination%20of%20NASA%E2%80%99s%20Next%20Administrator%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20April%2030,%202021
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- NASA's 100 Days
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- 2:46
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- It's been a busy 100 days! Since Jan. 20, we've landed our Perseverance rover on Mars, and flown our Ingenuity helicopter, a technology demonstration that caught a ride with the rover to the Red Planet. A ceremony marked the naming of our Mary W. Jackson Headquarters in Washington after the agency's first Black female engineer, honoring her contributions to our mission of exploration. Vice President Harris spoke with NASA astronauts on the International Space Station. Our Artemis program to return astronauts to the Moon completed a successful Green Run hot fire test for our Space Launch System rocket core stage, which arrived this week at Kennedy Space Center. NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 mission launched four astronauts to the space station, and we selected SpaceX as partner to build landers for Artemis missions. We made addressing climate change a priority, and celebrated Earth Day on and off the planet.
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/biden-harris-administration-...
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- NASA Remembers Apollo Astronaut Michael Collins
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- We are heartbroken to share that astronaut Michael Collins, the command module pilot of the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, has passed away at the age of 90.
Collins was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. In 1966, he served as the pilot on the 3-day Gemini 10 mission, during which he set a world altitude record and became the nation's third spacewalker, completing two extravehicular activities. His second flight was as command module pilot of the historic Apollo 11 mission in July 1969. He remained in lunar orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon.
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- What Is the Habitable Zone?
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- There's a helpful concept we use to help understand what distance from a given star you might expect to find planets with liquid water on their surface – liquid water being essential for life as we know it. It's called the habitable zone. Every star has a habitable zone, but where that zone lies is different for stars of different sizes and brightness.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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- Q&A with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts Aboard the Space Station
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- 29:21
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Hear from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts ahead of their return to Earth! At 12:30 p.m. EDT, join NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi for a Q&A about their six-month mission and upcoming departure from the International Space Station.
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- The Next Commercial Crew Mission to The Space Station on This Week @NASA – April 24, 2021
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- 4:27
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The next commercial crew mission to the space station, a historic milestone on Mars, and a hearing to confirm NASA’s next administrator … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-The%20Next%20Commercial%20Crew%20Mission%20to%20The%20Space%20Station%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20April%2024,%202021
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- Watch NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 Mission Arrive at the International Space Station
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- 3:23:45
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Tune in live as the Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft docks to the International Space Station with astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur of NASA, Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency), and Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) aboard. The four astronauts will begin a six-month science mission on the station. Docking is scheduled to occur at 5:10 a.m. EDT (9:10 a.m. UTC), Saturday, April 24, followed by the hatch opening at 7:15 a.m. EDT (11:15 a.m. UTC), and a welcome ceremony at 7:45 a.m. EDT (11:45 a.m. UTC) Saturday, April 24.
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- How Ingenuity Talks to Us From Mars
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- 4:02
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The Ingenuity helicopter made history on April 19, 2021, with the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. How do engineers talk to a helicopter all the way out on Mars? We’ll hear about it from Nacer Chahat of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who worked on the helicopter’s antenna and telecommunication system. He chats with NASA’s Chief Scientist Jim Green in this episode of the “Gravity Assist” podcast. Subscribe and listen to the full episode at https://www.nasa.gov/gravityassist.
https://images.nasa.gov/details-How%20Ingenuity%20Talks%20to%20Us%20From%20Mars
Producer Credit: Elizabeth Landau & Sonnet Apple
Audio Engineer: Manny Cooper
Music Credit: Universal Production Music
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- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 Astronauts Headed to International Space Station
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- 3:05
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts are in orbit following their early morning launch bound for the International Space Station for the second commercial crew rotation mission aboard the microgravity laboratory. The international crew of astronauts lifted off at 5:49 a.m. EDT Friday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, into orbit to begin a six-month science mission on the space station.
During Crew Dragon’s flight, SpaceX will command the spacecraft from its mission control center in Hawthorne, California, and NASA teams will monitor space station operations throughout the flight from Mission Control Center at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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- Postlaunch News Update on NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 Mission
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- 45:21
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- At 5:49 a.m. EDT, NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 mission lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft with four astronauts aboard is safely in orbit, on the way to the International Space Station for docking on Saturday, April 24.
Tune in at 7:30 a.m. EDT for a post launch news update. Participants are:
• Steve Jurczyk, acting NASA administrator
• Kathy Lueders, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
• Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
• Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president and director general, JAXA’s Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate
• Frank de Winne, manager, International Space Station Program, ESA
• A SpaceX representative
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- Watch NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 Launch to the International Space Station (Official NASA Broadcast)
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- 4:45:41
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Watch continuous coverage of NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
Watch as four astronauts launch from Earth to their new home in space, the International Space Station.
At 5:49 a.m. EDT (9:49 UTC), the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket will lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will join the station's crew, for a mission of approximately six months.
This will be the first launch through our Commercial Crew Program to fly two international partner astronauts, and the first reuse of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket for a crew mission.
Once aboard the station, the Crew-2 astronauts will spend a lot of time on science — in areas such as medical technology, human health, and materials to bene...
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- Meet Akihiko Hoshide, Crew-2 Mission Specialist
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- 3:22
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- "I have dreamt of becoming an astronaut since my childhood."
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide was born on December 28th, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. He received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University in 1992, and a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering in 1997. He is the third Japanese astronaut to walk in space and has flown on both the Space Shuttle and Soyuz spacecraft. He launches on April 23rd at 5:49 a.m. aboard the NASA SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station.
