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Teams review options for the next Artemis I launch attempt …

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The National Space Council meets in Houston ...

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And Webb captures a new image of a cosmic tarantula …

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

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After standing down on the Artemis
I launch attempt Sept. 3

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due to a hydrogen leak, teams
have decided to make the necessary repairs

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while the Space Launch System rocket,
or SLS, remains at Launch Pad 39B.

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The mission will be the first integrated
test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft,

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the SLS rocket, and the ground systems
at Kennedy Space Center in Florida

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and will pave the way for human
exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

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Follow along as Artemis
I mission managers evaluate options

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for the next launch attempt
by checking out the Artemis blog

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at blogs.nasa.gov/artemis.

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On Sept. 9, Vice President Kamala Harris chaired
a National Space Council meeting at NASA’s

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Johnson Space Center in Houston, and spoke
to NASA astronauts Bob Hines,

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Jessica Watkins and Kjell Lindgren
aboard the International Space Station.

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The council discussed
a variety of topics including human space

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exploration, rules for emerging space
activities, and STEM education.

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NASA also confirmed an extension
for the Center

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for the Advancement of Science in Space,
or CASIS, to continue managing

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the space station, and discussed new space
grant awards for STEM students.

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Our James Webb Space Telescope captured

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thousands of never-before-seen young stars

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in a new image of stellar nursery
30 Doradus,

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also known as the “Tarantula Nebula.”

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Located about 161,000 light-years

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away from us in the Large
Magellanic Cloud, the nebula is

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the largest and brightest star-forming
region near our own galaxy,

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and is home to the hottest,
most massive stars known.

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One of the reasons the Tarantula Nebula
is interesting to astronomers

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is the furious rate
at which it produces new stars.

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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test,

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or DART, spacecraft recently got its first
look at Didymos,

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the double-asteroid system
that includes its target, Dimorphos.

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The first look is a composite of 243

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images taken by a camera onboard
the spacecraft.

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On Sept. 26, DART will intentionally crash
into Dimorphos,

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the asteroid moonlet of Didymos.

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While the asteroid poses
no threat to Earth,

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this will be the world's first test
of the kinetic impact technique,

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using a spacecraft to deflect
an asteroid for planetary defense.

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The U.S. Postal Service has a new star –
the James Webb Space Telescope.

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On Sept. 8, the stamp featuring an artist’s
digital illustration

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of Webb against a background of stars
was dedicated in a ceremony

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at the Smithsonian’s
National Postal Museum in Washington.

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The selvage, or the paper around
the stamps, showcases an image of a star

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that Webb captured during the alignment
process earlier this year.

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That’s what’s up this week @ NASA …