A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the corporate’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the Worldwide Area Station with NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Area Company) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti onboard, Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle in Florida. Credit score: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
A new crew launches to the area station …
One other crew wraps up a historic mission to the station ….
And extra time to probe for some planetary science missions … a number of of the tales to let you know about – This Week at NASA!
The Crew-4 Mission Launches to the Area Station
On April 27, the astronauts of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission launched to the Worldwide Area Station from our Kennedy Area Middle in Florida. Later the identical day, NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, and Jessica Watkins, together with Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Area Company, arrived on the station onboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft that they named “Freedom.” That is the fourth area station crew rotation mission to fly on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft as a part of the company’s Industrial Crew Program.
SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour capsule splashes down within the Atlantic Ocean on April 25, 2022, marking the tip of Axiom Area’s Axiom Mission 1 – the primary all-private astronaut mission to the Worldwide Area Station. Credit score: Axiom Area
Axiom Mission 1 Departs from the Area Station
The crew of Axiom Mission 1, the primary all-private astronaut mission to the Worldwide Area Station, wrapped up its time on the orbital outpost on April 24. The four-person crew, led by Commander and former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, safely returned to Earth on April 25 with greater than 200 kilos of science and provides, together with some NASA experiments and hardware.
An illustration exhibits our photo voltaic system (to not scale). Credit score: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA Extends Exploration for Eight Planetary Science Missions
The planetary science missions of eight NASA spacecraft have been prolonged for at the very least three years. These embody Mars Odyssey, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN, the Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity rover, the InSight Mars lander, OSIRIS-REx, New Horizons, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The missions have been prolonged due to their scientific productiveness and potential to deepen our data and understanding of the photo voltaic system and past.
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough is pictured contained in the Kibo laboratory module with the Astrobee free-flying robotic assistants. Credit score: NASA
Celebrating Three Years of Astrobees on the Area Station
Our Ames Analysis Middle is celebrating three years of the free-flying robotic Astrobees busily “buzzing about” the Worldwide Area Station. The three robots have put in over 750 hours of labor and accomplished greater than 100 actions, from tech demonstrations to helping in experiments. Robots like these are important elements of our Artemis program to return people to the Moon and to ultimately ship individuals to Mars. In contrast to the area station, future deep area outposts will not be crewed year-round, and might have robotic, autonomous methods to stay operational.
Roscosmos cosmonauts (from left) Denis Matveev and Oleg Artemyev are pictured throughout a spacewalk on April 18, 2022, to configure the European robotic arm. Credit score: NASA
Outfit Robotic Arm Throughout Spacewalk
Outdoors the Worldwide Area Station, Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev of Roscosmos performed a spacewalk on April 28 to proceed outfitting the European robotic arm that's hooked up to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module. Future spacewalks are deliberate to proceed work on the robotic arm and to activate Nauka’s airlock to be used on future spacewalks.
That’s what’s up this week @NASA …
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