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A new look at a “star factory” …

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Practicing Moonwalks here on Earth …

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And an Earthly assist
for a NASA spacecraft …

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

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A new Webb Space Telescope
image of the iconic Pillars of Creation –

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a star factory of sorts –
is visually stunning and could help us

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better understand
how stars form within clouds

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of gas and interstellar dust.

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An analog mission this month to practice
lunar operations near Flagstaff, Arizona

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will provide crucial data
for future Artemis Moon missions.

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Learn more about analog missions
at nasa.gov/analogs.

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Our Lucy spacecraft
swung back by Earth on

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Oct. 16, exactly one year after its launch.

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The close flyby also gave Lucy
the first of several gravity assists

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it needs from Earth
to reach the never-before-visited

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Trojan asteroids
that share an orbit with Jupiter.

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Lithium-ion battery

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packs installed in our all-electric X-57
Maxwell aircraft

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successfully powered the plane’s motors.

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This important milestone brings

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the experimental plane
a step closer to first flight.

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Former NASA astronaut Jim McDivitt,
who commanded the

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Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, 
died on Oct. 13.

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Jim McDivitt was 93 years old.