A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft launches on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, astronaut Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina. on board, Wednesday, October 5, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission is the fifth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s commercial crew program. Mann, Cassada, Wakata and Kikini launched at 12:00 pm EDT from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center to begin a six-month mission aboard the orbital outpost. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Launching a new crew to the space station…
The plan moving forward for Artemis I…
And Webb’s New Look at a Couple of Galaxies… Some of the Stories to Tell You: This Week at NASA!
Launch of a new crew to the space station, the plan to move forward for Artemis I and Webb’s new look at a couple of galaxies … some of the stories to tell you: this week at NASA!
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 launches to the space station
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on October 5. Crew-5 will spend six months on the station conducting research and technology demonstrations that benefit people on Earth and lay the groundwork for future Artemis human exploration missions. the Moon and finally Mars.
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will launch with Orion aboard from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s modernized spaceport at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA
The Artemis I teams are focused on November for the launch attempt
In the wake of Hurricane Ian, teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center are looking at the Nov. 12-27 timeframe for the next Artemis I launch attempt. Artemis I updates are available at blogs.nasa. gov/artemis.
By combining data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers were able to trace the light emitted by the Great White Elliptical Galaxy on the left through the spiral galaxy on the right and identify the effects of interstellar dust on the spiral galaxy. This image of the galaxy pair VV 191 includes near-infrared light from Webb and ultraviolet and visible light from Hubble. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, Rogier Windhorst (ASU), William Keel (University of Alabama), Stuart Wyithe (University of Melbourne), JWST PEARLS Team, Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
The Webb and Hubble image includes the pair of galaxies
A new Webb Space Telescope image of a spiral galaxy and an elliptical galaxy, combined with an image from the Hubble Space Telescope, is helping researchers study the effects of interstellar dust and helped them identify for the first time once a previously unknown lensed galaxy.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare, as seen in the bright flash at upper right, on October 2, 2022. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material of the flares and that it is colorful. in orange Credit: NASA/SDO
The sun releases an intense solar flare
On October 2, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the Sun emitting an X1 class solar flare. Class X flares can affect radio communications and electrical power grids on Earth and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts in space.
Here’s what’s happening this week @NASA