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Find out why July 2023 was a record-breaking month, a high-flying NASA aircraft is helping to study lighting, and making landings safe for flights of the future … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Link to download this video: https://images.nasa.gov/details/Find%... Video Producer: Andre Valentine and Haley Reed Video Editor: Haley Reed Narrator: Jesse Carpenter Music: Universal Production Music Credit: NASA

The moment has finally arrived, it's time for Felix Baumgartner to perform the space dive. Taken from Red Bull Space Dive. This is a channel from BBC Studios who help fund new BBC programmes. Service information and feedback: https://www.bbcstudios.com/contact/co...

I don't have access to real-time information or events beyond September 2021, so I can't provide specific details about NASA's Free 2023 Software Catalog. However, I can tell you about the general nature of NASA's software catalogs and what they typically include. NASA periodically releases software catalogs that contain a collection of software programs, tools, and applications developed by NASA researchers and engineers. These software offerings are often made available to the public for free or under specific usage terms. The software can cover a wide range of fields, including space exploration, aeronautics, data analysis, simulation, robotics, and more. Each software entry in the catalog typically includes a description of the software's purpose, features, and capabilities, as well as information about the NASA center that developed it. The catalog aims to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing between NASA and the broader scientific and engineering communities, as well as to foster innovation and advancement in various fields. To get the most accurate and up-to-date information about NASA's Free 2023 Software Catalog, I recommend visiting the official NASA website or relevant news sources that cover developments in the aerospace and technology sectors.

SpaceX has issued an overpressure alert notice, indicating they may potentially static fire engines on Super Heavy Booster 7 today. The test window covers from 8 AM to 8 PM. Exact test objectives have not been publicly released.

Falcon 9 is launching the Crew-6 mission to the Space Station for NASA. Liftoff is scheduled for 1:45 AM EST (06:45 UTC) from LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The first stage is B1078-1, which will attempt a landing on Just Read the Instructions. 🔗 Forum coverage: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/ind... 🔗 NSF Store: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/shop/ ⚡ Become a member of NASASpaceflight's channel for exclusive discord access, fast turnaround clips, and other exclusive benefits. Your support helps us continue our 24/7 coverage. ⚡ 🔍 All content copyright to NSF. Not to be used elsewhere without explicit permission from NSF. L2 Boca Chica (more clips and photos) from BC's very early days to today. 🔗 https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/ind... (Join L2 and support NSF here: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/l2/)

On Sunday, May 21 at 5:37 p.m. ET (21:37 UTC), Falcon 9 launched Axiom Space’s Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed on Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Dragon will autonomously dock with the space station on Monday, May 22 at approximately 9:16 a.m. ET (13:16 UTC). During their time on the orbiting laboratory, the crew will conduct over 20 science and technology experiments in areas such as human physiology, physical sciences, and STEAM to help expand knowledge to benefit life on Earth in areas such as healthcare, materials, technology development, and enable industrial advances. The webcast will resume approximately two hours prior to docking.

At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, we’re leveraging our scientific and technical expertise across multiple capacities, including lunar and planetary science, sun science and space weather, space communications and navigation, astronaut search and rescue, agile launch support, and in-space services, to support NASA’s Artemis initiative for a new era of crewed lunar exploration. Music: "Know Your Limits" [NM335], via Universal Production Music Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Rich Melnick (KBRwyle): Lead Producer Lora Bleacher (NASA/GSFC): Lead Associate Producer Rob Andreoli (AIMM): Narrator Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Lora Bleacher (NASA/GSFC): Writer Peter H. Jacobs (NASA/GSFC): Writer Amber C Jacobson (ASRC Federal Research and Technology Solutions): Writer Vanessa Lloyd (InuTeq, LLC): Writer Nancy Neal-Jones (NASA/GSFC): Writer Joy Ng (USRA): Writer Keith Koehler (NASA/WFF): Writer This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13683

From Wiki : Spirit, MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover -- A), is a robotic rover on Mars, active from 2004 to 2010. It was one of two rovers of NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover Mission. It landed successfully on Mars at 04:35 Ground UTC on January 4, 2004, three weeks before its twin, Opportunity (MER-B), landed on the other side of the planet. Its name was chosen through a NASA-sponsored student essay competition. The rover became stuck in late 2009, and its last communication with Earth was sent on March 22, 2010. The rover completed its planned 90-sol mission. Aided by cleaning events that resulted in higher power from its solar panels, Spirit went on to function effectively over twenty times longer than NASA planners expected following mission completion. Spirit also logged 7.73 km (4.8 mi) of driving instead of the planned 600 m (0.4 mi), allowing more extensive geological analysis of Martian rocks and planetary surface features. Initial scientific results from the first phase of the mission (the 90-sol prime mission) were published in a special issue of the journal Science. On May 1, 2009 (5 years, 3 months, 27 Earth days after landing; 21.6 times the planned mission duration), Spirit became stuck in soft soil. This was not the first of the mission's "embedding events" and for the following eight months NASA carefully analyzed the situation, running Earth-based theoretical and practical simulations, and finally programming the rover to make extrication drives in an attempt to free itself. These efforts continued until January 26, 2010 when NASA officials announced that the rover was likely irrecoverably obstructed by its location in soft soil, though it continued to perform scientific research from its current location. The rover continued in a stationary science platform role until communication with Spirit stopped on sol 2210 (March 22, 2010). JPL continued to attempt to regain contact until May 24, 2011, when NASA announced that efforts to communicate with the unresponsive rover had ended. A formal farewell was planned at NASA headquarters after the Memorial Day holiday and was televised on NASA TV. Hope you enjoyed it!

ICON 3D PRINTS THE FIRST SIMULATED MARS SURFACE HABITAT FOR NASA DESIGNED BY RENOWNED ARCHITECTURE FIRM, BIG-BJARKE INGELS GROUP Mars Dune Alpha, the 3D-printed Habitat Located at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Will Aid in Long-duration Science Missions ICON, developer of advanced construction technologies including robotics, software, and building materials, announced it has been awarded a subcontract through Jacobs supporting NASA’s The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) to deliver a 3D-printed habitat, known as Mars Dune Alpha, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. ICON’s next-gen Vulcan construction system will complete a 1,700 square-foot structure, designed by world-renowned architecture firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, that will simulate a realistic Mars habitat to support long-duration, exploration-class space missions. CHAPEA is a sequence of three one-year Mars surface mission simulations at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. The analog missions will provide valuable insights and information to assess NASA’s space food system, as well as physical and behavioral health and performance outcomes for future space missions. NASA will use research from the Mars Dune Alpha simulations to inform risk and resource trades to support crew health and performance for future missions to Mars when astronauts would live and work on the Red planet for long periods of time. Future space exploration habitats have the potential to be 3D printed with additive construction technology to eliminate the need to launch large quantities of building materials on multiple flights, which is cost prohibitive. “This is the highest-fidelity simulated habitat ever constructed by humans,” said Jason Ballard, co-founder and CEO, ICON. “Mars Dune Alpha is intended to serve a very specific purpose--to prepare humans to live on another planet. We wanted to develop the most faithful analog possible to aid in humanity's dream to expand into the stars. 3D printing the habitat has further illustrated to us that construction-scale 3D printing is an essential part of humanity's toolkit on Earth and to go to the Moon and Mars to stay. ” Life in Mars Dune Alpha will resemble the expected experience for those living in a future Mars surface habitat. Designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, the layout of the innovative structure is organized in a gradient of privacy. Four private crew quarters will be located on one end of the habitat; dedicated workstations, medical stations and food-growing stations are located on the opposite end, with shared living spaces found in between. Varying ceiling heights vertically segmented by an arching shell structure accentuate the unique experience of each area to avoid spatial monotony and crew member fatigue. A mix of fixed and movable furniture will allow crew members to reorganize the habitat according to their daily needs, as will the customizable lighting, temperature, and sound control – helping regulate the daily routine, circadian rhythm, and overall well being of the crew. “Together with NASA and ICON, we are investigating what humanity’s home on another planet will entail from the human experience,” says Bjarke Ingels, Founder and Creative Director, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group. “The data gained from this habitat research will directly inform NASA’s standards for long-duration exploration missions, and as such will potentially lay the foundation for a new Martian vernacular. Mars Dune Alpha will take us one step closer to becoming a multiplanetary species.” Ballard continued, “Bjarke Ingels and the team at BIG are incredible thought leaders in the architecture space. It was important to have a partner who believed in this transformative role of the future of construction and who could help us imagine pioneering new frontiers -- both materially, technologically and environmentally.” NASA has begun its recruitment for the long-duration Mars mission analog study inside the 3D-printed habitat. Applications to participate as crew are being accepted through the mid-September 2021 for the one-year analog mission that starts in Fall 2022. To learn more or to apply, visit www.nasa.gov/chapea/participate. ICON also received funding from NASA and launched “Project Olympus” to begin research and development of a space-based construction system to support future exploration of the Moon. As part of a government Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract, “Project Olympus” brought ICON and BIG together again to imagine humanity’s first home on another world. For more information visit www.iconbuild.com. Animation by: Brick Concept Renderings by: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group