1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,899 A safe conclusion to the latest long-duration spaceflight … 2 00:00:03,899 --> 00:00:08,240 Calling on industry to help us accelerate our return to the Moon … 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:13,150 And practice makes perfect – before the real thing … a few of the stories to tell 4 00:00:13,150 --> 00:00:16,120 you about – This Week at NASA! 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:20,020 The International Space Station’s Expedition 60 crew – including our Nick Hague – is 6 00:00:20,020 --> 00:00:24,460 back on Earth, after landing safely in Kazakhstan Oct. 3. 7 00:00:24,460 --> 00:00:29,490 The landing capped off a 203-day mission on the orbital complex for Hague and Alexey Ovchinin 8 00:00:29,490 --> 00:00:35,120 of Roscosmos, while Visiting Astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates 9 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,080 spent 8 days on the station. 10 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,900 Meanwhile, our Christina Koch, Andrew Morgan, Jessica Meir, and others still aboard the 11 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:47,260 station plan to conduct what may become a record pace of 10 spacewalks during the next 12 00:00:47,260 --> 00:00:48,510 three months. 13 00:00:48,510 --> 00:00:53,790 The series of spacewalks, which could kick off as soon as Oct. 6 will be used to replace 14 00:00:53,790 --> 00:00:59,380 some batteries for the solar arrays and to refurbish a scientific instrument that explores 15 00:00:59,380 --> 00:01:01,900 the fundamental nature of the universe. 16 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:08,710 The Sept. 30 call out to American companies for proposals to design and develop human 17 00:01:08,710 --> 00:01:14,479 lunar landing systems for our Artemis program is expected to be our final solicitation for 18 00:01:14,479 --> 00:01:19,479 these systems that will send the first woman and next man to the surface of the Moon by 19 00:01:19,479 --> 00:01:21,119 2024. 20 00:01:21,119 --> 00:01:26,609 Based on industry feedback to earlier draft solicitations, NASA adjusted some requirements 21 00:01:26,609 --> 00:01:31,899 to help fast-track our return to the Moon, while preserving all the agency’s human 22 00:01:31,899 --> 00:01:33,009 safety measures. 23 00:01:33,009 --> 00:01:36,320 We expect to make multiple awards from the solicitation. 24 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:40,700 The first company to complete its lander will carry astronauts to the surface of the Moon 25 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:46,469 in 2024, and the second company will land in 2025. 26 00:01:46,469 --> 00:01:50,810 We are currently designing and developing a new spacesuit system, called the Exploration 27 00:01:50,810 --> 00:01:57,029 Extravehicular Mobility Unit or xEMU, for use during Artemis missions at the Moon and 28 00:01:57,029 --> 00:02:00,169 adaptable for missions to other destinations. 29 00:02:00,169 --> 00:02:05,090 To that end, we’ve sent out a request for information seeking input from industry on 30 00:02:05,090 --> 00:02:10,099 a strategy for production of lunar spacesuits that will support a steady stream of Artemis 31 00:02:10,099 --> 00:02:14,579 missions over the next decade and beyond. 32 00:02:14,579 --> 00:02:19,730 The core stage pathfinder for our Space Launch System or SLS rocket was delivered recently 33 00:02:19,730 --> 00:02:23,870 by our Pegasus barge to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 34 00:02:23,870 --> 00:02:28,819 The core stage pathfinder is one of three full-scale mockups of SLS flight hardware 35 00:02:28,819 --> 00:02:34,810 that will be used to train crews on best practices for moving, handling and lifting the various 36 00:02:34,810 --> 00:02:40,360 parts of the rocket in preparation for Artemis I, an uncrewed flight test that is the first 37 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:45,230 lunar mission of SLS and our Orion spacecraft. 38 00:02:45,230 --> 00:02:50,840 Data from our Cassini mission to Saturn – which ended in Sept. 2017 – have discovered molecules 39 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:56,069 of organic compounds on Saturn's moon Enceladus that are similar to compounds involved in 40 00:02:56,069 --> 00:03:00,790 the production of amino acids – the building blocks of life here on Earth. 41 00:03:00,790 --> 00:03:05,700 The newly-discovered molecules of nitrogen and oxygen-bearing compounds were detected 42 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:15,190 on material ejected from the moon’s core into space by powerful hydrothermal vents.