Advancing Moon Mobility for Artemis Astronauts on This Week @NASA – April 5, 2024

Advancing Moon mobility for Artemis astronauts, getting ready for the total solar eclipse, and a milestone engine test for our Artemis Moon rocket … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

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Advancing Moon mobility for Artemis astronauts. Getting ready for the total solar eclipse. And a milestone engine test for our Artemis Moon rocket. A few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! During an April 3 news conference at our Johnson Space Center in Houston, we announced Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab as the companies selected to advance capabilities for a lunar terrain vehicle, or LTV for future Artemis missions.

The LTV will enable Artemis astronauts to travel around the lunar surface while conducting scientific research during the agency’s Artemis campaign at the Moon to prepare for human missions to Mars. Learn more at nasa. gov/artemis. The April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse will take place in parts of Mexico, the United States, and Canada. A total solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun.

NASA has online resources available at go. nasa. gov/eclipse2024 to help determine when, where, and how to safely view the eclipse. We will host live coverage of the eclipse on NASA+, the agency’s website, and the NASA app, starting at 1 p. m.

EDT. NASA conducted an RS-25 hot fire test April 3 at our Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The test marked the completion of a 12-test series to certify production of new RS-25 engines to help power our Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond, beginning with Artemis V. A team of astronomers has used our James Webb Space Telescope to survey Messier 82, or M82, a starburst galaxy located 12 million light-years from us.

M82 is a relatively compact galaxy, but it has a great deal of star formation activity. For comparison, M82 is sprouting new stars 10 times faster than our Milky Way galaxy. Using Webb to inspect activity in galaxies like these can help astronomers better understand the early universe and the process by which new stars form. That’s what’s up this week @NASA. For more about what else we’re up to, check out nasa.

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