A Major Milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope on This Week @NASA – January 14, 2022
A major milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope, what astronomers could learn from a “mini” monster black hole, and the latest assessment of our planet’s global surface temperature … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
Ready to showcase the Webb space telescope’s first full-color images, back in touch with a spacecraft on an important mission to the Moon, and our Artemis I Moon rocket and spacecraft move a step closer to launch … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
Producer: Andre Valentine
Editor: Lacey Young
Music: Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idL-_uWJC00
The stage is set for the next shuttle launch to the international space while its six-member crew arrives at the Kennedy Space Center in anticipation of a full launch dress rehearsal, or Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poBj2O4EYQw
NASA and international partners are scheduled to launch scientific investigations on the 30th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station, including tests of technologies to monitor sea ice, automate 3D mapping, and create nanoparticle solar cells. The company’s Dragon cargo spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in early March.
Read more about some of the research making the journey to the orbiting laboratory:
https://go.nasa.gov/3SS9mhA
Producer: Nicole Rose
Credit: NASA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV6Ywe9ec30
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission launched Aug. 11 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will be the first to fly directly through the Sun’s corona – the hazardous region of intense heat and solar radiation in the Sun’s atmosphere that is visible during an eclipse. It will gather data that could help answer questions about solar physics that have puzzled scientists for decades. Gathering information about fundamental processes near the Sun can help improve our understanding of how our solar system’s star changes the space environment, where space weather can affect astronauts, interfere with satellite orbits, or damage spacecraft electronics.
This video is available for download from NASA's Image and Video Library: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2018_0812_Parker%20Solar%20Probe%20Mission%20Launches%20to%20Touch%20the%20Sun%20-.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlyuSwRSVHU
If school wasn’t scary enough… here is a spooky/amusing take on watching a classroom film on Halloween.
NASA wishes you a safe and happy Halloween
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyp5W1AeTr8
Targeted to launch on Tuesday, Feb. 6, NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite mission will study how our oceans and atmosphere interact in a changing climate. Prelaunch activities include a news conference on Monday, Feb. 5 at 9 a.m. EST (1400 UTC) with the following participants:
NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free
Karen St. Germain, director, Earth Science Division, NASA
Tim Dunn, senior launch director, Launch Services Program, NASA
Julianna Scheiman, director, Civil Satellite Missions, SpaceX
Brian Cizek, launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, U.S. Space Force
Credit: NASA
#PACE #PACEMission
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03HJCnQBkpY
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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpbKsFutOCI
Did Mars ever look like Earth? We think it did! Ancient Mars may have been wetter and warmer — similar to our home planet. So what happened? Scientists like Dr. Becky McCauley Rench are trying to find out. Keep up with our Martian exploration efforts: www.nasa.gov/Mars
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKLGK8Co0Xo
Deep space exploration begins on American factory floors.
The launch of Artemis I will bring together the world’s most powerful rocket, NASA’s Space Launch System and the Orion Spacecraft, to prepare us to land the first woman and the next man on the lunar surface.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsIhTw0CK8U