1 00:00:01,069 --> 00:00:03,270 The President’s funding request for NASA … 2 00:00:03,270 --> 00:00:06,439 Preparing for first flight on another world … 3 00:00:06,439 --> 00:00:10,950 And a new crew heads to the space station … a few of the stories to tell you about 4 00:00:10,950 --> 00:00:14,110 – This Week at NASA! 5 00:00:14,110 --> 00:00:19,570 Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk discussed the President’s Fiscal Year 2022 discretionary 6 00:00:19,570 --> 00:00:21,590 funding request for NASA. 7 00:00:21,590 --> 00:00:24,330 The $24.7 billion funding request … 8 00:00:24,330 --> 00:00:31,679 “Allows NASA to address the climate change challenge in more significant ways than we 9 00:00:31,679 --> 00:00:32,990 have in the past. 10 00:00:32,990 --> 00:00:39,719 It allows us to understand the Earth as a system from the oceans to the atmosphere.” 11 00:00:39,719 --> 00:00:44,440 The request includes funding also related to climate change for programs associated 12 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:46,649 with the first “A” in NASA’s name. 13 00:00:46,649 --> 00:00:52,670 “Aeronautics has been charged with developing a more environmentally-friendly aviation system. 14 00:00:52,670 --> 00:00:57,510 One of them is the X-57 Maxwell flight demonstrator. 15 00:00:57,510 --> 00:01:03,410 It’s going to demonstrate electric aircraft technology, including distributive propulsion.” 16 00:01:03,410 --> 00:01:07,830 Other milestones expected under the new funding request include the launch of the James Webb 17 00:01:07,830 --> 00:01:13,090 Space Telescope, which will look back in time to the first galaxies in the early universe. 18 00:01:13,090 --> 00:01:18,040 The funding request also is a strong show of support for our Artemis program and Moon 19 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,420 to Mars exploration approach. 20 00:01:20,420 --> 00:01:25,630 The Space Launch System rocket, the Orion spacecraft, Gateway in lunar orbit, and a 21 00:01:25,630 --> 00:01:30,270 commercial human landing system will land the first woman and first person of color 22 00:01:30,270 --> 00:01:35,700 on the surface of the Moon, and are the systems we will use to establish sustainable exploration 23 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:41,120 and research in preparation for the first human missions to Mars. 24 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:46,189 During a preflight briefing on April 9, the team for our Ingenuity Mars Helicopter discussed 25 00:01:46,189 --> 00:01:51,180 the helicopter’s status and what to expect on its first attempt at powered, controlled 26 00:01:51,180 --> 00:01:56,360 flight on another planet – currently targeted for no earlier than Sunday, April 11. 27 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:00,329 “We have carefully designed; we have carefully tested on Earth. 28 00:02:00,329 --> 00:02:05,930 We have been checking carefully on Mars up to now, and it’s time to attempt the first 29 00:02:05,930 --> 00:02:06,930 flight. 30 00:02:06,930 --> 00:02:10,810 And we will test, prove, and learn regardless of what the outcome is.” 31 00:02:10,810 --> 00:02:16,220 If Ingenuity flies on April 11, as expected, a livestream confirming the historic first 32 00:02:16,220 --> 00:02:21,890 flight is targeted to start around 3:30 a.m. EDT on April 12. 33 00:02:21,890 --> 00:02:26,800 Ingenuity, a technology demonstration to test powered flight on another world for the first 34 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:32,880 time, arrived at Mars on Feb. 18, with our Perseverance Mars rover. 35 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:37,480 The International Space Station’s newest crew, including our Mark Vande Hei, blasted 36 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,510 off on April 9 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 37 00:02:41,510 --> 00:02:47,060 A few hours later, Vande Hei, Oleg Novitskiy, and Pyotr Dubrov, both of the Russian Space 38 00:02:47,060 --> 00:02:52,920 Agency, Roscosmos, were welcomed aboard the station by the crew already onboard – including 39 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:58,820 our Kate Rubins, and NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, 40 00:02:58,820 --> 00:03:01,830 Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi. 41 00:03:01,830 --> 00:03:06,780 April 5 marked a first for commercial spaceflight aboard the International Space Station when 42 00:03:06,780 --> 00:03:13,060 the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft, carrying NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts, autonomously 43 00:03:13,060 --> 00:03:18,580 undocked from the forward port of the station’s Harmony module and relocated to the space-facing 44 00:03:18,580 --> 00:03:19,580 port. 45 00:03:19,580 --> 00:03:24,390 The move will enable the extraction of new solar arrays from a SpaceX cargo spacecraft 46 00:03:24,390 --> 00:03:27,920 that will arrive after Crew-1 departs. 47 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:33,760 On April 6, engineers conducted an RS-25 engine test on the A-1 Test Stand at our Stennis 48 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:40,450 Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. 49 00:03:40,450 --> 00:03:45,280 The full-duration test is the second in a scheduled series of seven tests to provide 50 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,110 valuable data for development and production of the engines. 51 00:03:49,110 --> 00:03:53,690 Four RS-25s will help power the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on future 52 00:03:53,690 --> 00:03:59,540 missions to the Moon, including the Artemis I uncrewed flight test targeted for this year, 53 00:03:59,540 --> 00:04:04,020 that will pave the way for future flights with astronauts to explore the Moon and prepare 54 00:04:04,020 --> 00:04:06,020 for missions to Mars. 55 00:04:06,020 --> 00:04:12,570 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft completed a last flyover of asteroid Bennu on April 7, 56 00:04:12,570 --> 00:04:16,870 to document surface changes that resulted on the asteroid during the mission’s sample 57 00:04:16,870 --> 00:04:19,440 collection maneuver last October. 58 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:24,240 It will take until at least April 13 to downlink all of the data from the flyby. 59 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:28,650 A survey of the sample collection site could teach us more about the nature of the surface 60 00:04:28,650 --> 00:04:33,220 and subsurface materials, and the mechanical properties of the asteroid. 61 00:04:33,220 --> 00:04:37,450 OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to return to Earth, with the sample material it collected from 62 00:04:37,450 --> 00:04:39,840 Bennu, in September 2023.