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A new crew launches to the space station another\h
crew wraps up an historic mission to the station\h\h

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and more time to explore for some planetary\h
science missions a few of the stories to\h\h

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tell you about this week at NASA on April 27th\h
the astronauts of NASA's SpaceX crew 4 mission\h\h

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launched to the international space station\h
from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida\h\h

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later the same day NASA's Kjell Lindgren Bob\h
Hines and Jessica Watkins along with Samantha\h\h

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Cristoforetti of the european space agency arrived\h
at the station on board the spacex crew dragon\h\h

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spacecraft that they named freedom this is the\h
fourth space station crew rotation mission to fly\h\h

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on a spacex crew dragon spacecraft as part of the\h
agency's commercial crew program the crew of axiom\h\h

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mission one the first all-private astronaut\h
mission to the international space station\h\h

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wrapped up its time on the orbital outpost on\h
April 24th the four-person crew led by commander\h\h

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and former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria\h
safely returned to earth on April 25th with\h\h

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more than 200 pounds of science and supplies\h
including some NASA experiments and hardware\h\h

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the planetary science missions of eight NASA\h
spacecraft have been extended for at least\h\h

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three years these include mars odyssey the mars\h
reconnaissance orbiter maven the mars science\h\h

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laboratory's curiosity rover the insight\h
mars lander osiris-rex new horizons and\h\h

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the lunar reconnaissance orbiter the missions were\h
extended because of their scientific productivity\h\h

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and potential to deepen our knowledge and\h
understanding of the solar system and beyond\h\h

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our ames research center is celebrating three\h
years of the free-flying robotic astro bees busily\h\h

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buzzing about the international space station the\h
three robots have put in over 750 hours of work\h\h

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and completed more than 100 activities from\h
tech demonstrations to assisting in experiments\h\h

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robots like these are essential components of\h
our Artemis program to return humans to the moon\h\h

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and to eventually send people to mars unlike\h
the space station future deep space outposts\h\h

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may not be crewed year-round and may need robotic\h
autonomous systems to remain operational outside\h\h

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the international space station cosmonauts\h
Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev of ross\h\h

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cosmos conducted a spacewalk on April 28th to\h
continue outfitting the European robotic arm that\h\h

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is attached to the Nauka multi-purpose laboratory\h
module future spacewalks are planned to continue\h\h

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work on the robotic arm and to activate Naouka's\h
airlock for use on future spacewalks that's what's\h\h