Peristiwa bersejarah untuk penerbangan luar angkasa manusia, tanggal peluncuran baru untuk Artemis I

Memperingati peristiwa bersejarah bagi penerbangan luar angkasa manusia…

“Kami memutuskan untuk pergi ke bulan …”

Pembaruan pada rencana untuk Artemis I …

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Peringatan 60 tahun pidato JFK di Rice University

Pada 12 September, NASA dan Rice University memperingati 60 tahun Pidato bersejarah John F. Kennedy di Rice pada tahun 1962. Dalam pidato itu, Presiden berkomitmen kembali bangsa untuk tujuan ia telah mengusulkan kepada Kongres Mei 1961 astronot mendarat di Bulan sebelum akhir dekade dan mengembalikan mereka dengan selamat ke Bumi. Seperti yang ditekankan Administrator NASA Bill Nelson selama pidato utama di acara tersebut, pidato Presiden membantu memperluas kepemimpinan kami dalam penerbangan luar angkasa manusia saat itu dan terus menginspirasi kami hari ini saat kami bekerja untuk membawa manusia kembali ke bulan dan akhirnya dikirim ke Mars sebagai bagian dari program Artemis NASA.

“Enam puluh tahun yang lalu, Presiden Kennedy menempatkan angin di layar kami di lautan baru eksplorasi ruang angkasa, dan misi itu tidak pernah berakhir. Ini adalah misi tentang sains dan kemajuan jiwa manusia untuk memperluas apa yang mungkin.” — Bill Nelson, Administrator NASA

Render artis ini menunjukkan tampilan udara peluncuran roket Space Launch System (SLS) NASA. Konfigurasi roket awak Blok 1 ini akan mengirim tiga misi Artemis pertama ke bulan. Kredit foto: NASA/MSFC

Tanggal target baru untuk pengujian dan peluncuran kritis Artemis I

Uji demonstrasi kriogenik untuk kendaraan udara tak berawak kami Tes terbang Artemis I sekarang ditujukan paling lambat Rabu 21 September. Sementara itu, agensi telah meminta kesempatan peluncuran 27 September untuk Space Launch System, atau[{” attribute=””>SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, with a potential backup opportunity of October 2 under review. During the cryogenic demonstration, teams will load super cold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen into the core stage and interim cryogenic propulsion stage of the SLS to confirm that a hydrogen leak has been fixed. Artemis I is the first integrated flight test with the SLS and Orion. The mission will send Orion beyond the Moon and return the spacecraft back to Earth.

NASA’s Perseverance rover puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater. Composed of multiple images, this mosaic shows layered sedimentary rocks in the face of a cliff in the delta, as well as one of the locations where the rover abraded a circular patch to analyze a rock’s composition. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Perseverance Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Mars Terrain

NASA’s Perseverance rover is collecting samples and analyzing the composition of rocks at an ancient river delta located in the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater, an area long considered by scientists to be a top prospect for finding signs of possible ancient microscopic life. In its analysis of a sample from a rock named Wildcat Ridge, the rover’s SHERLOC instrument registered the most abundant organic detections on the mission to date. Further conclusions about what is contained in this sample will have to wait until it’s returned to Earth for in-depth study as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign, an international collaboration led by NASA and the European Space Agency.

Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Credit: NASA

NASA Announces Pending Departure of Science Associate Administrator

Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, is planning to leave the agency at the end of 2022. His six years at NASA have included some of the agency’s most inspirational moments, from sending the first spacecraft to touch the Sun, to launching and sharing the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, to landing the Perseverance rover on Mars along with the Ingenuity helicopter that went on to make the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. The agency is conducting a nationwide search and open competition for a new associate administrator.

This artist’s concept of NASA’s QueSST jet reflects the airplane’s final configuration following years of research and design engineering. Credit: Lockheed Martin

Ground Recording Stations Tested for Future Quiet Supersonic Flight

The team at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center recently completed a flight series called CarpetDIEM which tested state-of-the-art ground recording stations designed to hear and record the unique sounds that will be generated during future supersonic flights by NASA’s X-59 aircraft. The X-59’s goal is to reduce the intensity of sonic booms, which are heard when an aircraft flies faster than the speed of sound, to a quiet sonic “thump.” When the X-59 flies, NASA will record the sonic thumps as part of the effort to validate its quiet supersonic design.

That’s what’s up this week @NASA …