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The space station’s next crew heads to its
launch site …

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New cargo launches to the station …

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And getting ready for a first-of-its-kind
crew rotation mission … a few of the stories

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to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

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On Sept. 27, the space station’s Expedition
64 crew, including our Kate Rubins, participated

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in traditional prelaunch ceremonies in Star
City, Russia then headed to the Baikonur Cosmodrome

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in Kazakhstan to complete its training.

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Rubins, and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov
and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov are targeted to launch

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to the station Oct. 14.

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A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft
launched to the space station Oct. 2 from

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our Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

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The Cygnus – loaded with nearly 8,000 pounds
of research, crew supplies, and hardware – is

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named after late astronaut Kalpana Chawla,
a member of the STS-107 crew that was lost

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in the space shuttle Columbia accident.

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On Sept. 29, we hosted a series of news conferences
at our Johnson Space Center to preview NASA’s

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SpaceX Crew-1 mission.

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It will be the first crew rotation mission
to the International Space Station using a

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U.S. commercial spacecraft.

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“We’re excited about the opportunity to
name our vehicle.

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However, rather than wait until we got on
orbit we thought we would share that with

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you today.

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So without further ado, the Crew-1 Dragon
capsule number 207 will henceforth be known

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by the call sign, ‘Resilience.’”

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The mission is scheduled to launch from our
Kennedy Space Center no earlier than Oct.

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31.

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the
images seen in this time lapse of a star some

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70 million light-years from us that, first
– in a moment of brilliance – goes supernova,

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then suddenly fades into oblivion.

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Supernovae like these can help astronomers
measure the expansion of the universe.

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In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the International
Space Apps Challenge has gone all virtual

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for 2020.

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The theme of the Oct. 2-4 hackathon is, “Take
Action.”

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Participants use NASA data to address real-world
problems on Earth and in space.

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Learn more, including about the winners of
the recently concluded Space Apps COVID-19

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Challenge at spaceappschallenge.org.

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The new Planet Patrol website lets citizen
scientists at home help NASA find exoplanets,

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or worlds beyond our solar system, by using
data from our planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet

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Survey Satellite or TESS.

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Over the course of a year, TESS collects hundreds
of thousands of snapshots, each containing

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thousands of possible planets, too many for
astronomers to examine without help.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …