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What the President’s budget means for NASA …

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A record-setting astronaut returns safely to Earth ...

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And the next Commercial
Crew mission to the space station ...

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a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

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During the March 28 State of NASA address

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at our Kennedy Space Center,

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Administrator Bill Nelson highlighted
what

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President Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget request

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for NASA means for the agency.

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It’s a signal of support of our missions
in a new era of exploration and discovery.

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The budget will strengthen NASA’s position
as a global leader

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in exploration, science, technology
innovation, and discovery.

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It will enable Artemis missions

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to the Moon that will prepare us
for human missions to Mars.

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It will also further scientific discovery
within our solar system and beyond.

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The budget will enhance our ability
to better understand climate change,

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provide support for commercial space
activities,

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help the U.S. maintain its leading role in aeronautics
research,

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connect with students through STEM education,

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and promote diversity equity, inclusion, and accessibility.

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I’m just constantly inspired by the can-do
spirit that guides our agency.

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And I’m proud to say, that the state of NASA is strong.

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NASA’s Mark Vande Hei wrapped up a 355-day
stay on the International Space Station

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– setting a record for the longest single
spaceflight by an American astronaut.

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After undocking from the space station
on March 30,

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Vande Hei returned safely to Earth
with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov,

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who launched to the station with Vande
Hei in April 2021, and Anton Shkaplerov.

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The astronauts of NASA’s
SpaceX Crew-4 mission are continuing

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preparations for their upcoming
launch to the International Space Station.

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NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren,
Bob Hines, and Jessica Watkins,

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along with European Space Agency
astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti,

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discussed their mission
with the media on March 31.

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They are targeted to launch on a SpaceX
Crew Dragon spacecraft

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no earlier than April
20 from Kennedy Space Center.

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Teams at Kennedy Space Center are focusing 
efforts on the final major test

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for the agency’s Space Launch System 
rocket and Orion spacecraft

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ahead of the uncrewed Artemis I Moon mission.

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With the rocket and Orion at the launch
pad, the multi-day wet dress rehearsal

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test gives teams the opportunity
to practice a full launch countdown,

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fill and drain the rocket’s
fuel tanks, and other activities

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they might need to perform
on the day of the actual launch.

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Our Hubble Space Telescope has detected
light from the farthest star seen to date.

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The star, nicknamed Earendel, existed
within the first

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billion years after the birth
of the universe in the big bang.

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Earendel, whose light has taken 12.9
billion years to reach Earth,

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is quite a bit farther than the 
previous farthest star ever seen.

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That star, discovered by Hubble in 2018,

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existed when the universe was
about 4 billion years old.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …