NASA Minute: Sept. 19, 2025

In this week’s NASA Minute new cargo deliveries at the Space Station and training for future Moon landings.

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From new cargo deliveries at the space station to training for future Moon landings, it's been a busy week for NASA. Here's your NASA minute. After last week's Progress mission, NASA followed up with the launch of the first Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL Cargo vehicle this week to the International Space Station. Carrying 11,000 pounds of science and cargo, the new spacecraft safely arrived at the orbiting laboratory early Thursday morning. NASA has now confirmed existence of 6000 planets beyond the Milky Way.

This milestone was made possible by decades of NASA space telescope exploration. Our telescopes have transformed the way we view the night sky and helped to answer a fundamental question. Are we alone? With our upcoming missions America will study worlds like our own around stars like our Sun, demonstrating our commitment to gold standard science. NASA completed the 65th and final pass from our record breaking Deep Space Optical Communications demo, beaming valuable data back to Earth via laser from 218 million miles away.

These tests bring us closer than ever before to being able to sustain high grade communication from the surface of Mars and will be invaluable as we plan for future missions. In the mountains of northern Colorado NASA certified a new lander flight training course in partnership with the U. S. Army to help astronauts practice flight and landing procedures for the Moon. Using helicopters, Artemis astronauts can now experience the visual illusions, cross-cockpit communication, and degraded visibility they may experience en route to the lunar south pole.

Every week, NASA advances American leadership in air and space. I think we've gone over a minute. But thanks for joining me, and I'll see you next week.

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