NASA Minute: April 24, 2026

Making progress towards the next Artemis mission, preparing a new crew for the space station, and delivering the world’s most powerful telescope ahead of schedule in this week’s NASA Minute.

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NASA is moving fast — making progress towards the next Artemis mission, preparing a new crew for the space station, and delivering a powerful new telescope ahead of schedule. Here's your quick recap of the week, in the NASA Minute. NASA is now targeting early September to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — eight months ahead of schedule. With assembly and testing complete, the observatory is now in preparation for shipping to Kennedy Space Center for launch. With a wide field of view and powerful infrared vision, Roman will help answer questions about dark matter, and planets beyond our solar system.

On Thursday, NASA announced the crew selected for the agency's SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station. The mission will be led by NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, joined by Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov. Crew-13 is set to launch no earlier than September 2026 for a long-duration mission in orbit. Preparation for Artemis III is in full swing. On Monday, teams rolled out a major section of the SLS rocket from Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana, beginning its journey to Kennedy Space Center ahead of the 2027 mission.

And finally, NASA's Curiosity Rover has found the most diverse set of organic molecules ever detected on Mars. While scientists can't yet determine how they formed, the discovery reinforces that ancient Mars had the chemistry needed to support life. From the Moon to Mars and beyond, NASA is expanding what we know and where we can go. See you next time on the NASA Minute.

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