1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:03,269 The Orion spacecraft for Artemis I is on the move ... 2 00:00:03,303 --> 00:00:05,939 Critical hardware for Artemis II is delivered ... 3 00:00:05,939 --> 00:00:08,842 And a new telescope to study our Milky Way ... 4 00:00:09,109 --> 00:00:12,178 A few of the stories to tell you about - this week at NASA! 5 00:00:12,879 --> 00:00:14,447 Engineers at NASA’s Kennedy 6 00:00:14,447 --> 00:00:18,385 Space Center in Florida moved the Orion spacecraft for our Artemis 7 00:00:18,385 --> 00:00:22,622 I mission from the Launch Abort System Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building. 8 00:00:23,023 --> 00:00:27,427 Then Orion was placed on top of the Space Launch System or SLS rocket 9 00:00:27,660 --> 00:00:29,662 and joined the other flight hardware 10 00:00:29,662 --> 00:00:32,999 already stacked and ready for the upcoming Artemis I mission. 11 00:00:33,566 --> 00:00:37,570 Artemis I will be an uncrewed flight test of Orion and the SLS 12 00:00:37,771 --> 00:00:41,174 as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon. 13 00:00:41,641 --> 00:00:44,444 Under Artemis, NASA aims to land the first woman 14 00:00:44,444 --> 00:00:48,815 and first person of color on the Moon and establish sustainable lunar 15 00:00:48,815 --> 00:00:53,053 exploration, in preparation for eventual human missions to Mars. 16 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:55,688 Teams in Germany that helped 17 00:00:55,688 --> 00:01:00,360 build the Orion spacecraft’s European Service Module or ESM for our Artemis 18 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:04,431 II mission recently prepared it for travel to our Kennedy Space Center. 19 00:01:04,964 --> 00:01:08,435 The ESM stores Orion’s propulsion, thermal control, 20 00:01:08,435 --> 00:01:11,171 electrical power, and critical life support systems. 21 00:01:11,438 --> 00:01:13,173 [sound of plane engine noise] 22 00:01:13,306 --> 00:01:17,644 Orion arrived safely at Kennedy and was transferred to the Neil A. 23 00:01:17,644 --> 00:01:18,711 Armstrong Operations 24 00:01:18,711 --> 00:01:22,782 and Checkout Facility to be integrated with other Artemis II hardware. 25 00:01:23,283 --> 00:01:25,952 Artemis II will be Orion’s first spaceflight 26 00:01:25,952 --> 00:01:28,054 around the Moon and back with astronauts. 27 00:01:29,389 --> 00:01:32,058 NASA has selected a proposal for a new gamma-ray 28 00:01:32,058 --> 00:01:36,096 space telescope, called the Compton Spectrometer and Imager or COSI, 29 00:01:36,362 --> 00:01:39,399 that will study the recent history of star birth, star 30 00:01:39,399 --> 00:01:42,669 death, and the formation of chemical elements in the Milky Way. 31 00:01:43,236 --> 00:01:47,507 Out of 18 telescope proposals that our Astrophysics Explorers program 32 00:01:47,507 --> 00:01:52,846 received in 2019, COSI is the only one selected to continue into development. 33 00:01:53,213 --> 00:01:55,748 It is expected to launch in 2025. 34 00:01:56,883 --> 00:01:59,285 [Announcer: "Undocking confirmed."] 35 00:01:59,285 --> 00:02:03,857 [Announcer: "Soyuz MS 18 is now free of the International Space Station."] 36 00:02:04,023 --> 00:02:08,461 On Oct. 17, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying cosmonaut Oleg 37 00:02:08,461 --> 00:02:12,999 Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Russian actress Yulia Peresild and producer-director 38 00:02:12,999 --> 00:02:16,269 Klim Shipenko landed safely in Kazakhstan – 39 00:02:16,269 --> 00:02:19,339 just hours after leaving the International Space Station. 40 00:02:19,806 --> 00:02:22,442 The seven people remaining onboard the station include 41 00:02:22,442 --> 00:02:26,012 NASA’s Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, and Mark Vande Hei. 42 00:02:26,279 --> 00:02:27,413 The station is scheduled 43 00:02:27,413 --> 00:02:31,484 to get four more occupants later this month, with the arrival of our SpaceX 44 00:02:31,484 --> 00:02:35,522 Crew-3 mission – currently targeted for launch on Oct. 31. 45 00:02:36,823 --> 00:02:41,161 On Oct. 22, a Russian Progress supply spacecraft that had undocked 46 00:02:41,161 --> 00:02:45,765 from the space station’s Poisk module two days earlier, redocked – this time 47 00:02:45,765 --> 00:02:49,903 to the station’s recently installed Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module. 48 00:02:50,403 --> 00:02:53,873 The maneuver provided an opportunity to test and check out systems 49 00:02:53,873 --> 00:02:57,844 in the new module that are used for orientation control of the station. 50 00:02:59,279 --> 00:03:01,514 NASA is sharing OpenET, 51 00:03:01,514 --> 00:03:05,652 a powerful, new, web-based platform that uses publicly available data, 52 00:03:05,885 --> 00:03:10,423 to help those who rely on water resources across the drought-stricken western U.S. 53 00:03:10,957 --> 00:03:14,961 OpenET measures evapotranspiration – the combined process 54 00:03:15,061 --> 00:03:18,765 by which water is transferred to the atmosphere through evaporation 55 00:03:18,765 --> 00:03:23,102 of surface water on land and transpiration of moisture from plants. 56 00:03:23,536 --> 00:03:27,307 The tool puts NASA data into the hands of farmers, water managers, 57 00:03:27,307 --> 00:03:30,810 conservation groups, and others to accelerate improvements 58 00:03:30,810 --> 00:03:32,912 and innovations in water management. 59 00:03:34,747 --> 00:03:38,818 On Oct. 19, we held a ceremony at Ellington Field, near our Johnson Space 60 00:03:38,818 --> 00:03:42,622 Center in Houston, to name the hangar there that houses the agency’s 61 00:03:42,622 --> 00:03:46,926 T-38 astronaut training jets after late astronaut John Young. 62 00:03:47,093 --> 00:03:50,730 Young was a member of NASA’s second astronaut class, known 63 00:03:50,730 --> 00:03:54,534 as the "New Nine." He walked on the Moon during Apollo 16, 64 00:03:54,667 --> 00:03:58,771 commanded the first space shuttle mission, and became the first person to launch 65 00:03:58,771 --> 00:04:03,543 into space seven times – six from Earth, and once from the surface of the Moon. 66 00:04:04,177 --> 00:04:07,180 That’s what’s up this week @NASA … For more on these