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An update on our mission to the Sun …

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Preparations continue for Orion’s upcoming
flight test …

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And a science chat about two upcoming out-of-this-world
encounters … a few of the stories to tell

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you about – This Week at NASA!

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Signals from our Parker Solar Probe indicate
the spacecraft is alive and well after skimming

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by the Sun at just 15 million miles from our
star's surface.

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A status beacon sent on Nov. 7 indicates all
instruments are running and collecting science

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data.

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Parker will study the Sun’s corona to solve
long standing mysteries, and should help improve

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forecasts of space weather which can affect
spacecraft and astronauts in orbit as well

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as communications on Earth.

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Our Kennedy Space Center, in Florida received
the European Service Module for our Orion

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spacecraft from Germany on Nov. 6.

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The service module will propel, power and
cool Orion during Exploration Mission-1, Orion’s

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first uncrewed flight test with our Space
Launch System rocket that will demonstrate

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our capability to extend human existence to
the Moon and beyond.

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NASA and the European Space Agency will participate
in a Nov. 16 event at Kennedy to mark the

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arrival of the service module.

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That event will air live on NASA Television
and the agency’s website at 9 a.m. eastern

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standard time.

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We teamed with the U.S. Navy and others for
the seventh in a series of tests off the California

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coast, to verify and validate procedures and
hardware needed to recover Orion, after it

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splashes down in the Pacific Ocean when it
returns from deep space exploration missions.

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A test version of Orion was used to evaluate
recovery operations in various conditions.

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There are two more recovery tests planned
for this series.

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On Nov. 5, our administrator, Jim Bridenstine
gave keynote remarks at National Geographic

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Society Headquarters in Washington, D.C, before
a showing of the Project Mars Competition's

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short films and National Geographic’s Mars
series.

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During his remarks, Bridenstine talked about
our InSight mission – scheduled to land

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on the Red Planet Nov. 26.

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"This InSight lander is critical to a future
human exploration activity on the surface

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of Mars.

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What we're going to be able to do is create
a 3-D image of what's happening inside Mars

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and ultimately, how that could jeopardize
human astronauts in the future."

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A Nov. 7 Science Chat focused on upcoming
encounters for two of our planetary missions

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-- OSIRIS-REx, and New Horizons.

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OSIRIS-REx, our first asteroid sample return
mission, will arrive at asteroid Bennu on

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Dec. 3, and then deliver a sample from the
asteroid to Earth in September 2023.

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On New Year’s Day, 2019, our New Horizons
spacecraft will make the farthest space probe

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flyby in history when it encounters Kuiper
Belt object Ultima Thule, which is approximately

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four billion miles from Earth.

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You can see the entire episode at go.nasa.gov/smallworldschat.

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These flight cable harnesses, assembled at
our Langley Research Center in Virginia, will

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be used by the Mars Entry, Descent and Landing
Instrumentation 2, or MEDLI2 during our Mars

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2020 mission’s entry through the Red Planet’s
atmosphere.

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MEDLI2 will measure pressure, temperature,
heat flux and radiation on the capsule that

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encloses the Mars 2020 rover.

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For an interactive look at how the mission
will land, check out go.nasa.gov/mars2020landing.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …