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A key milestone for our lunar Gateway …

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“Rolling out” for a critical Orion safety
test …

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And a chance to send your name to Mars … a
few of the stories to tell you about – This

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Week at NASA!

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In one of the first steps of our Artemis lunar
exploration plans, we have selected Maxar

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Technologies to provide the power and propulsion
element for our lunar Gateway.

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The power and propulsion element is a spacecraft
that will use high-power solar electric propulsion

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to give our explorers aboard the Gateway access
to the entire surface of the Moon.

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It will also enable the Gateway to serve as
a mobile command and service module by providing

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a communications relay for human and robotic
expeditions to the lunar surface.

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“This is a critical capability for not just
a sustainable lunar return, but also an eventual

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journey to Mars.”

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NASA’s current lunar exploration plans call
for a return to the Moon within five years,

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and a sustained human presence on and around
the Moon by 2028.

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The agency is targeting launch of the power
and propulsion element in late 2022.

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The vehicle for our Orion spacecraft’s Ascent
Abort-2 flight test was rolled out from Kennedy

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Space Center to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,
in preparation for its launch this summer.

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This will be a full-stress test of Orion’s
Launch Abort System, which is designed to

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propel the spacecraft and its crew safely
away from the rocket, should a life-threatening

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event happen during an actual launch.

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This critical safety test will help pave the
way for Artemis missions near the Moon and

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enable astronauts to set foot on the lunar
surface by 2024.

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Through September 30, we are giving you an
opportunity to send your name to Mars aboard

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our Mars 2020 rover – currently targeted
for launch as early as July 2020.

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Submitted names will be etched onto one or
more dime-size microchips that will ride on

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the rover under a glass cover.

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Each microchip can hold more than a million
names – and more than two million names

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were submitted in the first three days.

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Mars 2020 will collect samples for future
return to Earth, and pave the way for human

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exploration of the Red Planet.

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To add your name to the list and obtain a
souvenir boarding pass, go to go.nasa.gov/Mars2020Pass.

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The final and most complex season of flight
tests is underway for our Unmanned Aircraft

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Systems Traffic Management project, or UTM.

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This round of testing tackles the unique challenges
of flying small drones in the urban landscape

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– with flights through August 2019 in Reno,
Nevada and Corpus Christi, Texas.

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Since 2015, NASA has researched the ins and
outs of building a system to manage drone

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traffic safely.

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The project works with the Federal Aviation
Administration and other partners to understand

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how a nationwide system for drone traffic
could be created from scratch.

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Our Green Propellant Infusion Mission, or
GPIM, is a small spacecraft the size of a

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mini-refrigerator that will test a low toxicity
propellant and compatible systems in space

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for the first time.

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This cutting-edge “green” technology could
improve the performance of future missions

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by providing for longer mission durations
using less propellant.

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GPIM is one of four unique NASA technology
missions targeted for launch in June 2019,

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aboard a SpaceX launch of a U.S. Air Force
project.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …