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Introducing the crew of our
Artemis II Moon mission.

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Lighting up an Artemis rocket engine.

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And a new image of a distant planet.

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

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Ladies and gentlemen,
your Artemis II crew!

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During an April 3 event near our
Johnson Space Center, in Houston,

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we introduced NASA’s Reid Wiseman,
Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch,

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and the Canadian Space Agency’s
Jeremy Hansen, as the crew for Artemis II.

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It will be the first Artemis mission to
fly astronauts around the Moon and back

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on our Orion spacecraft, to validate the
systems, capabilities and techniques

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needed for humans to live
and work in deep space.

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Together we will usher in a new era
of exploration for a new generation

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of star sailors and dreamers.

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To the Moon, to Mars, and beyond.
(applause)

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Learn more about Artemis II
at nasa.gov/artemis-ii.

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Engineers at our Stennis Space Center
conducted a hot fire of an RS-25

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rocket engine on April 5. It was the fifth
hot fire of a 12-test series to certify

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production of new engines.

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Four RS-25s will help power our
Space Launch System rocket

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on future Artemis missions to the Moon.

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Our James Webb Space Telescope
captured this new image of Uranus

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that highlights the planet’s dramatic
rings and bright atmospheric features.

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The data demonstrate Webb’s sensitivity
for the distant planet’s faintest

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dusty rings, which have only been imaged
by two other facilities besides Webb.

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Our Perseverance rover recently collected
and stored the first sample

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of the mission’s newest science campaign.

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The sample came from a rock the science
team calls “Berea” that is located

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near the top of
Jezero Crater’s delta on Mars.