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The Artemis Il astronauts check out their ride to the Moon, practicing post-splashdown recovery operations for Artemis II, and the Webb Space Telescope checks out a record-breaking star .. a fevw of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA! Link to download this video https://images.nasa.gov

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How Will We Extract Water on the Moon? We Asked a NASA Technologist We know the Moon contains water, but, could future astronauts access and make use of it? That's the goal. At NASA, we're actively trying to answer that question. Once it lands at the lunar south pole, our PRIME-1 – Polar Resources lce Mining Experiment-1 - will roboticaly sample and analyze ice from beneath the lunar surface, contributing to our search for water on the Moon:

Do Robots Help Humans in Space? We Asked a NASA Technologist When it comes to space, humans and robots go way back. We rely heavily on our mechanical friends to perform tasks that are too dangerous, difficult, or out of reach for us humans. We're even working on a new generation of robots that will help us explore in advanced and novel ways. Learn more about the CADRE-Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration-project and how this new network of mini rovers could enable future self-guided robotic exploration of the Moon

NASA s Psyche mission to an Asteroid - Official NASA Trailer Join the journey as NASA's Psyche mission team prepares for a targeted Oct. 5, 2023, launch to explore a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid, likely made largely of nickel-iron metal mixed with rock, could contain metal from the core of a planetesimal (the building block of an early rocky planet) and may offer a unique window into the violent history of collisions and accretion that created the terrestrial planets like Earth. Arizona State University leads the Psyche mission. JPL, which is managed by Caltech for NASA, is responsible for the mission's overall management, system engineering, integration and test, and mission operations. Maxar Technologies in Palo Alto, California, provided the high-power solar electric propulsion spacecraft chassis

STS 129 HD Launch in Space Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began an 11-day delivery flight to the International Space Station on Monday with a 2:28 p.m. EST launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle will transport spare hardware to the outpost and return a station crew member who spent more than two months in space. Atlantis is carrying about 30,000 pounds of replacement parts for systems that provide power to the station, keep it from overheating, and maintain a proper orientation in space. The large equipment can best be transported using the shuttle's unique capabilities.