1 00:00:00,340 --> 00:00:03,229 The next commercial crew test mission to the space station … 2 00:00:03,229 --> 00:00:07,170 Outlining the agency’s objectives for deep space exploration …. 3 00:00:07,170 --> 00:00:12,160 And covering the total lunar eclipse on Earth and from space … a few of the stories to 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:14,730 tell you about – This Week at NASA! 5 00:00:14,730 --> 00:00:21,070 On May 19, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station 6 00:00:21,070 --> 00:00:25,690 in Florida on Orbital Flight Test-2 or OFT-2. 7 00:00:25,690 --> 00:00:30,660 The mission is the Starliner’s second uncrewed flight to the station for our Commercial Crew 8 00:00:30,660 --> 00:00:32,020 Program. 9 00:00:32,020 --> 00:00:38,590 On May 17, NASA released a draft set of high-level objectives identifying 50 points that fall 10 00:00:38,590 --> 00:00:44,810 under four overarching categories of exploration for future Artemis missions to return astronauts 11 00:00:44,810 --> 00:00:49,219 to the Moon in preparation for human exploration of Mars. 12 00:00:49,219 --> 00:00:54,969 The agency is asking U.S. industry, academia, international communities, and other stakeholders 13 00:00:54,969 --> 00:00:58,660 to provide input on these deep space exploration objectives. 14 00:00:58,660 --> 00:01:02,760 Learn more at nasa.gov/moontomars. 15 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:08,060 The latest episode of our NASA Science Live was all about the total lunar eclipse on the 16 00:01:08,060 --> 00:01:11,689 evening of May 15, overnight into May 16. 17 00:01:11,689 --> 00:01:16,420 It featured NASA experts and live views of the eclipse from around the world. 18 00:01:16,420 --> 00:01:21,569 Meanwhile, our Lucy spacecraft captured the imagery of the eclipse seen in this time-lapse 19 00:01:21,569 --> 00:01:26,329 when the traveling spacecraft was about 64 million miles from Earth. 20 00:01:26,329 --> 00:01:30,530 It shows Earth on the left and the Moon on the right, which can be seen disappearing 21 00:01:30,530 --> 00:01:34,369 into darkness as it passes through Earth’s shadow. 22 00:01:34,369 --> 00:01:39,159 The Lucy spacecraft is on its way to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. 23 00:01:39,159 --> 00:01:44,810 Dust on the solar panels of our InSight Mars lander is causing the spacecraft to gradually 24 00:01:44,810 --> 00:01:46,380 lose power. 25 00:01:46,380 --> 00:01:51,069 As a result, the InSight team anticipates that the lander will become inoperative by 26 00:01:51,069 --> 00:01:52,799 the end of this year. 27 00:01:52,799 --> 00:01:59,310 InSight, which arrived at Mars in November 2018, has so far detected more than 1,300 28 00:01:59,310 --> 00:02:04,569 marsquakes and collected information to help improve our understanding of the interiors 29 00:02:04,569 --> 00:02:07,409 of rocky planets, including Earth. 30 00:02:07,409 --> 00:02:12,930 NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, the first-ever quantum physics facility aboard the International 31 00:02:12,930 --> 00:02:19,380 Space Station, has been used to shape atoms of gas cooled to nearly absolute zero – or 32 00:02:19,380 --> 00:02:25,890 about minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit – into extremely thin, hollow spheres. 33 00:02:25,890 --> 00:02:31,630 This is similar to how liquids behave in microgravity and can’t be duplicated on Earth. 34 00:02:31,630 --> 00:02:36,129 The accomplishment could lead to new kinds of experiments with a state of matter distinctly 35 00:02:36,129 --> 00:02:42,200 different from gases, liquids, solids, and plasmas, called a Bose-Einstein condensate 36 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,000 or BEC. 37 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:49,760 In a BEC, scientists can observe the quantum properties of atoms at a scale visible to 38 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:51,500 the naked eye. 39 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:57,780 Our research mission to enable supersonic air travel over land has been renamed Quesst. 40 00:02:57,780 --> 00:03:03,129 The name, which includes an extra "s" to represent “supersonic,” replaces the mission’s 41 00:03:03,129 --> 00:03:06,780 original name: The Low-Boom Flight Demonstration. 42 00:03:06,780 --> 00:03:12,849 Through Quesst, NASA plans to demonstrate that the X-59 research aircraft can fly faster 43 00:03:12,849 --> 00:03:18,790 than sound without generating the loud sonic booms supersonic aircraft typically produce.