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A long-distance call to space …
Space station cameras capture\h\h

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Hurricane Ida …
And another successful\h\h

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cargo delivery to the station … a few of the\h
stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
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“Guys, you really look good …”
During a visit to our Johnson\h\h

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Space Center’s Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission\h
Control Center, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson,\h\h

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Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and several\h
members of Congress talked with the crew aboard\h\h

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the International Space Station about the\h
station’s critical role in low-Earth orbit.
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“The space station is a really great research\h
platform, so there’s lots of instruments\h\h

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outside the space station that are constantly\h
taking data and can take data for years.”
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“I just can’t tell you how\h
awesome it is to see all of you,\h\h

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especially the wonderful diversity of the crew.”
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They also touched on the center’s work for\h
NASA’s Artemis program to build a long-term\h\h

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human presence on and around the Moon …
“And then we’re going to Mars.\h\h

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Onward and upward.”
Cameras on the space station\h\h

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captured views of Hurricane Ida as the category\h
4 storm neared the southeast Louisiana coast,\h\h

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where it eventually made landfall on Aug. 29,\h
packing sustained winds of 150 miles per hour.\h\h

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More than 1 million customers reportedly lost\h
power by midday on Aug. 30. Ida’s landfall came\h\h

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exactly 16 years to the day after historic\h
hurricane Katrina also hit this region. 
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When Hurricane Ida made landfall\h
on Aug. 29, the storm affected our\h\h

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Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans\h
and Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.\h\h

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No injuries have been reported, but both locations\h
sustained damage. Stennis was able to open for\h\h

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some operations while Michoud was closed with\h
limited access to essential personnel only,\h\h

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as teams conducted detailed damage\h
assessments and initial cleanup work.\h\h

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Michoud manufactures and assembles some of\h
the largest parts of NASA’s Space Launch\h\h

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System rocket and Orion spacecraft and Stennis\h
is the agency’s premier propulsion test complex.
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A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft arrived at\h
the International Space Station on Aug. 30,\h\h

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a day after launching from our Kennedy\h
Space Center. The Dragon delivered more\h\h

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than 4,800 pounds of cargo – including about\h
2,300 pounds of new science experiments\h\h

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that will look at how microgravity affects\h
plant genetics, robotic assistants, bone tissue\h\h

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and astronaut vision among other phenomena.
NASA is asking interested American companies for\h\h

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more input about approaches, options and solutions\h
to providing a lunar terrain vehicle or LTV.\h\h

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The LTV– similar to the Apollo era Moon Buggy – is\h
an unenclosed rover that will transport astronauts\h\h

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wearing spacesuits around the lunar South Pole\h
during Artemis exploration surface missions to\h\h

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the Moon. The LTV will need to last at least\h
10 years to span multiple Artemis missions.
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On Sept. 3, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy\h
and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos ventured outside\h\h

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the International Space Station on the first\h
of up to 11 spacewalks to prepare the new Nauka\h\h

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multipurpose laboratory module for operations in\h
space. Nauka arrived at the station on July 29,\h\h

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eight days after launching from the\h
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 
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