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Prelaunch preparations for the next space
station crew …

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Science, technology and other cargo arrive
at the station …

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And an update on an upcoming commercial crew
flight … a few of the stories to tell you

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about – This Week at NASA!

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The next crew headed to the International
Space Station, including our Kate Rubins,

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wrapped up pre-launch training at the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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

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launch Oct. 14 for a six-month mission aboard
the station.

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On Oct. 5, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo
spacecraft arrived at the station with almost

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8,000 pounds of science, technology and other
cargo.

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The spacecraft is named in honor of late astronaut
Kalpana Chawla, a member of the STS-107 crew

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that perished in the space shuttle Columbia
accident.

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“Butch” Wilmore will join fellow NASA
astronauts Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann for

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the Boeing CST-100 Starliner’s first crewed
flight to the International Space Station,

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targeted for 2021.

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Wilmore will take the place of Boeing’s
Chris Ferguson, who is a former NASA astronaut.

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Ferguson decided not to fly for personal reasons.

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Astronauts in demonstration versions of the
exploration spacesuits being developed for

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our Artemis program, are using our Neutral
Buoyancy Lab, near our Johnson Space Center

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to practice some of the same activities the
first woman and next man on the Moon will

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carry out when they land on the lunar surface
in 2024.

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This testing will help evaluate tools, develop
training techniques for lunar surface operations,

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and plan future missions to the Moon.

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Teams at our Kennedy Space Center installed
the radiator for an instrument designed to

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analyze the chemical makeup of lunar landing
sites, and study water on the Moon as part

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of our Artemis program.

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The radiator will help protect the instrument,
called MSolo, from the Moon’s extreme heat

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and cold.

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Several of the instruments will travel to
the Moon through our Commercial Lunar Payload

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Services initiative, including one aboard
our water-hunting VIPER rover in late 2023.

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Right now we don’t know who will be the
first woman or next man selected to go to

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the Moon as part of Artemis.

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But what if it was going to be you!?

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We want to know what items you would pack
to take with you in your NASA Moonkit?

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So make your list, check it twice and head
on over to nasa.gov/nasamoonkit for instructions

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on using the hashtag #NASAMoonKit to share
your work online.

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A new panorama of the northern sky has been
assembled from over 200 images captured by

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our planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey
Satellite or TESS, which has imaged about

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75% of the sky in a two-year-long survey that
is still going strong.

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TESS has discovered 74 exoplanet worlds beyond
our solar system.

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There are some 1,200 additional exoplanet
candidates, with more than 600 of those situated

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in the northern sky.

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The latest in a series of demonstrations by
NASA, the FAA, and aviation companies used

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a remotely piloted aircraft from Bell Textron,
Inc. to simulate an urgent medical transport

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mission.

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These demonstrations highlight some potential
commercial uses of unmanned aircraft systems

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(UAS) in an effort to accelerate the safe
integration of these aircraft into the National

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Airspace System.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …