This Week NASA: Historic Event for Human Spaceflight, New Artemis I Launch Date
The 60th Anniversary of JFK’s Speech at Rice UniversityJohn F. Kennedy’s historic speech
at Rice in 1962. In that speech, the President recommitted the nation to the goal he had proposed to Congress in May 1961 of landing astronauts on the Moon before the end of the decade and returning them safely to Earth.
“60 years ago, President Kennedy put wind in our sails on the new sea of space exploration and that mission is never-ending. It’s a mission about science and the advancement of the human spirit to expand what is possible.”This artist’s rendering shows an aerial view of the liftoff of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. This Block 1 crew configuration of the rocket will send the first three Artemis missions to the Moon.
for no earlier than Wednesday, September 21. Meanwhile, the agency has requested a September 27 launch opportunity for the Space Launch System, orrocket and Orion spacecraft, with a potential backup opportunity of October 2 under review. During the cryogenic demonstration, teams will load super cold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen into the core stage and interim cryogenic propulsion stage of the SLS to confirm that a hydrogen leak has been fixed.
NASA’s Perseverance rover puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater. Composed of multiple images, this mosaic shows layered sedimentary rocks in the face of a cliff in the delta, as well as one of the locations where the rover abraded a circular patch to analyze a rock’s composition.
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