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Our next Mars rover is on its way …

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Preparing for the historic return of a Commercial
Crew mission …

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And naming the crew for a future mission … a
few of the stories to tell you about – This

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Week at NASA!

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“And liftoff … as the countdown to Mars
continues.

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The perseverance of humanity launching the
next generation of robotic explorers to the

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Red Planet.”

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On July 30, our Mars 2020 Perseverance rover
launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

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in Florida.

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Perseverance will be our first Mars rover
to collect samples from another planet for

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future return to Earth, which makes this mission
groundbreaking in more ways than one.

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“The samples from Mars have potential of
profound change of our understanding in the

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origin, evolution and distribution of life
on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.”

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The rover will land in a region of Mars that
provides an excellent opportunity to find

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signs of past microbial life – a primary
goal of the mission.

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It will also collect important data about
the planet’s geology and climate, and carry

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a host of technology – including the first
ever experimental helicopter on Mars.

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“We as human beings have never flown a rotorcraft
outside of our own Earth’s atmosphere, so

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this will actually be, very much a ‘Wright
Brothers moment’.”

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Other instruments, materials and technologies
making the trip will pave the way for future

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human missions to Mars, our ultimate goal
and next logical step after sending the first

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woman and next man to the Moon in 2024, as
part of our Artemis program.

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“It can’t be lost on people at how unique
of an opportunity this is.

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If you’re in elementary school today, you
may be in college when we make an amazing

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discovery that would transform how we talk
about history and science.”

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Astronauts Doug Hurley, Bob Behnken, and Chris
Cassidy held a news conference from the International

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Space Station on July 31, in advance of Hurley
and Behnken’s scheduled undocking from the

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station and return to Earth.

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“It was just an incredible experience and
one that I will absolutely never forget and

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I’ll always cherish.”

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The historic NASA SpaceX Demo-2 test flight
is the first crewed spaceflight with NASA

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astronauts on a privately owned spacecraft.

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NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan
McArthur will be joined by Japan’s Akihiko

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Hoshide and European Space Agency astronaut
Thomas Pesquet on Crew-2, the second operational

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SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International
Space Station.

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The mission is currently targeted for launch
in spring 2021.

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NASA satellite data showed around 8 inches
of rain in parts of southern Texas and northeastern

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Mexico from Hanna, the first Atlantic Hurricane
of the season.

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Hanna made landfall in southern Texas as a
Category 1 storm, before eventually weakening

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and continuing into Mexico.

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Our Hubble Space Telescope has looked back
billions of years in time to help fundamentally

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change what we know about the universe.

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The latest episode of our “Hubble – Eye
in the Sky” video series – titled, “Time

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Machines,” examines how Hubble will work
with the James Webb Space Telescope to revolutionize

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our understanding of the universe even further.

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You can find the video series and other Hubble
material at nasa.gov/hubble.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …