1 00:00:00,220 --> 00:00:02,230 An update on our Artemis I mission … 2 00:00:02,230 --> 00:00:04,660 Test firing an Artemis rocket engine … 3 00:00:04,660 --> 00:00:09,470 And a resupply mission delivers to the space station … a few of the stories to tell you 4 00:00:09,470 --> 00:00:14,040 about – This Week at NASA! 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:18,900 Teams at our Kennedy Space Center in Florida are assessing schedules and continuing preparations 6 00:00:18,900 --> 00:00:24,550 with our Space Launch System or SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, ahead of the upcoming 7 00:00:24,550 --> 00:00:27,550 uncrewed Artemis I mission around the Moon. 8 00:00:27,550 --> 00:00:33,230 We are currently targeting no earlier than March 17 for rollout of the combined spacecraft 9 00:00:33,230 --> 00:00:39,070 to Launch Pad 39B for final testing – including the wet dress rehearsal test, which is now 10 00:00:39,070 --> 00:00:41,750 targeted for early April. 11 00:00:41,750 --> 00:00:46,730 Launch of Artemis I is still being targeted for the early May timeframe, but activities 12 00:00:46,730 --> 00:00:49,058 with other scheduled launches at Kennedy 13 00:00:49,058 --> 00:00:53,079 could require mission managers to reevaluate that timeframe. 14 00:00:53,079 --> 00:00:58,800 Learn more about the Artemis I mission at: nasa.gov/artemis-1. 15 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:05,170 Engineers at our Stennis Space Center conducted an RS-25 engine hot fire test on Feb. 24. 16 00:01:05,170 --> 00:01:11,240 Four RS-25s will help power our Space Launch System rocket on future Artemis deep-space 17 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:15,940 missions, including this year’s uncrewed Artemis I mission around the Moon. 18 00:01:15,940 --> 00:01:21,330 This was the fourth overall test in the current test series which began in mid-December. 19 00:01:21,330 --> 00:01:27,060 On Feb. 21, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station 20 00:01:27,060 --> 00:01:31,665 two days after launching from our Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. 21 00:01:31,665 --> 00:01:37,010 NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Kayla Barron teamed up to capture the Cygnus, which was 22 00:01:37,010 --> 00:01:44,010 loaded with about 8,300 pounds of cargo, including important research and critical hardware. 23 00:01:44,010 --> 00:01:49,159 This is also the first Cygnus mission to feature enhanced capabilities of the spacecraft that 24 00:01:49,159 --> 00:01:55,180 allow it to use its engines to perform a reboost of the station as a standard service for NASA. 25 00:01:55,180 --> 00:01:58,685 A reboost is used to adjust the station’s orbit. 26 00:01:58,685 --> 00:02:03,890 NASA and partner agency NOAA are targeting March 1 for the launch of NOAA’s GOES-T 27 00:02:03,890 --> 00:02:07,130 satellite from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. 28 00:02:07,130 --> 00:02:12,400 GOES-T is the third weather observing and environmental monitoring system satellite 29 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,440 in the GOES-R series. 30 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:19,860 GOES-T will be renamed GOES-18 once it reaches geostationary orbit. 31 00:02:19,860 --> 00:02:25,280 Then, after successfully completing an orbital checkout of its instruments and systems, it 32 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:31,030 will go into operational service as GOES West - providing critical data for the U.S. West 33 00:02:31,030 --> 00:02:36,560 Coast, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, and the Pacific Ocean. 34 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:42,000 Feb. 20 was the 60th anniversary of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission during which 35 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,310 late astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. 36 00:02:46,310 --> 00:02:52,430 Glenn’s three-orbit flight aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft lasted nearly 5 hours – ending 37 00:02:52,430 --> 00:02:58,020 with a splashdown landing near the Turks and Caicos Islands, about 800 miles southeast 38 00:02:58,020 --> 00:02:59,569 of Cape Canaveral. 39 00:02:59,569 --> 00:03:05,300 He was celebrated as a hero across America and went on to serve several terms as a U.S. 40 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:07,330 senator representing Ohio. 41 00:03:07,330 --> 00:03:13,629 Then in 1998, when he was 77, he returned to space aboard space shuttle Discovery to 42 00:03:13,629 --> 00:03:17,739 participate in a series of tests on the aging process. 43 00:03:17,739 --> 00:03:22,099 Glenn passed away in December 2016 at the age of 95.