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Ready to showcase the Webb space telescope’s first full-color images …

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Back in touch with a spacecraft on an important mission to the Moon ….

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And our Artemis I Moon rocket and spacecraft move a step closer to launch …

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

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The much-anticipated release of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data

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is targeted for July 12 at 10:30 a.m. EDT, during a live broadcast from our Goddard Space Flight Center.

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That show will be available on NASA TV, the NASA app, the agency’s website, and various social media platforms.

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As each image is released, it will simultaneously be posted to social media and to our website at:

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nasa.gov/webbfirstimages.

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These first images will demonstrate Webb at its full power, ready to begin its mission to unfold the infrared universe.

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After experiencing post-launch communications issues on July 4, teams for our

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Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE mission

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have re-established contact with the spacecraft.

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The team has determined that an improperly formatted command sent to the spacecraft’s radio caused the issues.

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Data received from the spacecraft indicate that it is in good health,

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and it operated safely on its own while it was out of contact with Earth.

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As originally planned, CAPSTONE is still expected to arrive to its lunar orbit later this year on Nov. 13.

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The mission will test a unique, elliptical lunar orbit for Gateway,

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a Moon-orbiting outpost that is part of our Artemis program.

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On July 2, the Space Launch System, or SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft for our uncrewed Artemis I mission

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completed the four-mile journey from launch pad 39B to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.

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In the coming weeks, teams will make repairs, and perform checkouts and activities

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before returning SLS and Orion to the pad.

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Currently targeted for launch no earlier than August 2022, the Artemis I flight test to the Moon

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will allow NASA to check out rocket and spacecraft systems before astronauts fly to the Moon on Artemis II.

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Engineers recently completed the first fully integrated powered testing of the

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Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution, or TEMPO instrument on the Intelsat IS40e satellite.

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TEMPO is currently targeted to launch in January 2023.

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From its geostationary orbit, it will take air quality observations at an unprecedented spatial resolution.

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Its measurements will reach from Puerto Rico and Mexico to northern Canada,

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and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, encompassing the entire lower 48 states of the U.S.

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After analyzing data from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s sample collection “TAG event” at asteroid Bennu in October 2020,

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scientists were surprised to learn that the spacecraft’s arm sank almost half a meter into the asteroid.

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This was far deeper than expected and confirmed that Bennu’s surface is incredibly weak.

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It turns out that the surface material on Bennu is so loosely packed that stepping onto the asteroid might feel a bit like

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stepping into one of those pits filled with plastic balls that you might see at a kids’ play area.

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O-REx collected a handful of material and kicked up roughly six tons of loose rock during the TAG event.

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It will return its sample of Bennu to Earth in September 2023.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …