This Week at NASA | NASA’s 5-Year Plan to Return Humans to the Moon
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The plan to put humans on the Moon by 2024 … Wrapping up a series of spacewalks on the space station … And an historic first look at a black hole … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Administrator Bridenstine Speaks at Space Symposium During his keynote address April 9 at the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado, our administrator, Jim Bridenstine, discussed how NASA plans to put humans on the Moon within the next five years. NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine: Following that and a successful EM-2 flight test with a crew, we’ll need the power, propulsion and habitation that the Gateway will provide in lunar orbit. NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine: Which will also give us access to vital resources needed to live and work on the Moon for extended periods of time. NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine: Space Station Astronauts Wrap Up Spacewalk Series to Upgrade Power On April 8, our Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, conducted a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station – the third spacewalk in just under a month on the station. The pair completed work to provide backup power to the Canadarm2 robotic arm, expand wireless communications coverage, enhance computer network capability, and prepare the station for future battery upgrade operations. Black Hole Image Makes History; NASA Telescopes Coordinated Observations A black hole and its shadow have been captured in an image for the first time. It was captured by a massive network of radio telescopes around the world – known as the Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT – that works together as one very large instrument. The image shows the supermassive black hole at the center of the elliptical galaxy M87 – about 55 million light years away from us. Several NASA spacecraft also observed the black hole, and though they did not directly trace out the historic image, data from those observations were used to complement the EHT findings. Results Published from NASA’s Landmark Twins Study Results from our landmark Twins Study, which took place from 2015-2016, were published April 11 in Science. Retired astronauts and twins Mark and Scott Kelly participated in the investigation during Scott’s final spaceflight – a nearly year-long mission aboard the International Space Station – while his brother was on Earth. Key results from the study will help better understand how to maintain crew health during human exploration to the Moon and Mars. For more information visit: nasa.gov/twins-study. Kavandi, Buchli Inducted into Hall of Fame The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame inducted its two newest members during an April 6 ceremony at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Janet Kavandi, currently director of our Glenn Research Center, is a veteran of three space shuttle missions and has logged more than 33 days in space. James Buchli has four space flights to his credit during which he traveled more than 7 million miles. He also served as deputy chief of the Astronaut Office from March 1989 until May 1992. These inductions bring the total number of hall of fame space explorers to 99. That’s what’s up this week @NASA … (c)2019 NASA | SCVTV
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