Discussing the Strong State of NASA on This Week @NASA – March 15, 2024

Discussing the strong state of NASA, a safe return from the space station, and testing critical hardware for a future mission … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

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Discussing the strong state of NASA. A safe return from the space station. And testing critical hardware for a future mission. A few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! On March 11, during the annual State of NASA address at our headquarters in Washington, agency leadership talked about how the Biden-Harris Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget request supports NASA.

The budget will fund our ability to help America maintain its leadership role in space exploration, scientific discovery, cutting-edge technology, climate data, next-generation aeronautics, and inspiring future leaders of our Artemis Generation. Learn more at nasa. gov/budget. Also on March 11, the members of our SpaceX Crew-7 mission, including NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, made preparations to close out their time on the International Space Station. After undocking from the orbital laboratory in their SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, the four-person international crew safely splashed down the next day off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.

Crew-7 spent 199 days in orbit. Technicians at our Kennedy Space Center recently fully extended the first of two five-panel solar arrays for the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. The 46. 5-foot arrays also will be inspected and cleaned as part of assembly, test, and launch operations. Targeted for launch in October 2024, the mission will study Jupiter’s moon Europa, which is believed to have a global ocean beneath its icy crust that has more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined.

Our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. It will look deeper into this region than any other survey and map more of our galaxy’s stars than all previous observations combined. Roman’s combination of a large field of view, crisp resolution, and the ability to peer through dust make it the ideal instrument to study the Milky Way. The Roman Space Telescope is targeted for launch by May 2027. That’s what’s up this week @NASA.

For more about what else we’re up to, check out nasa. gov.

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