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We’ve taken giant leaps and left our mark in the heavens. Now we’re building the next chapter, returning to the Moon to stay, and preparing to go beyond. We are NASA – and after 60 years, we’re just getting started. Special thanks to Mike Rowe for the voiceover work. This video is available for download from NASA's Image and Video Library.

Our Webb Space Telescope captures a cosmic ring, the team behind our upcoming Psyche mission, and the unique thing about a star that was ripped apart by a black hole … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Video Producer: Andre Valentine Video Editor: Andre Valentine Narrator: Andre Valentine Music: Universal Production Music Credit: NASA

A New Crew Heads to the Space Station on This Week @NASA – September 1, 2023. The launch of the SpaceX Crew-7 mission is a significant milestone in NASA's Artemis program, which is aimed at returning humans to the Moon by 2024. The experience gained by the SpaceX Crew-7 astronauts will be invaluable as NASA prepares for future missions to the Moon and Mars. This Week at NASA! Date Created:2023-09-01 Center:HQ Keywords: TWAN , This Week At NASA , This Week @NASA , Storm Spotter , Robotic Spacecraft , Moon , Mars , Orbital Outpost , Expedition 69 Crew , Future Human Exploration Missions , SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft , International Space Station , ISS , SpaceX Crew-7 , NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli , Hurricane Idalia , Moon Orbiter , Lunar Exploration , Lunar Landmarks , Geological Features , Artemis Moon Landings , Scientific Visualizations , Lunar Orbit , Artemis II , Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter , LRO , NASA Astronaut Guy Bluford , First African American in Space , Space Shuttle Challenger , STS-8 Mission , The Space Shuttle Program , NASA's 1978 Astronaut Class Visit HQ Website

In this artist’s rendition, we explore a metallic world named Psyche, an asteroid that offers a unique window into the building blocks of planet formation. The NASA Psyche mission launches in 2023 and will arrive at the asteroid Psyche, which orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, in 2026. The spacecraft, also named Psyche, will spend 21 months orbiting the asteroid, mapping it and studying its properties. The mission is led by Principal Investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible for the mission’s overall management, system engineering, integration and test, and mission operations. Maxar Technologies is providing a high-power solar electric propulsion spacecraft chassis.

NASA’s Lucy mission tests the deployment of its solar arrays in the thermal vacuum chamber at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado. Each of the two circular arrays is nearly 24 feet (7.3 m) wide. These arrays will power Lucy on its 12-year odyssey through the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, breaking records for a solar powered mission by traveling 530 million miles (853 million km) from the Sun. These large arrays will capture the sunlight needed to power the spacecraft as it travels through deep space. More: nasa.gov/lucy Music: "CSI," Anthony Edward Phillips, Atmosphere Music, Ltd. Video credit: Copyright Lockheed Martin, 2021; used with permission

This imagery captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a solar flare and a subsequent eruption of solar material that occurred over the left limb of the Sun on November 29, 2020. From its foot point over the limb, some of the light and energy was blocked from reaching Earth – a little like seeing light from a lightbulb with the bottom half covered up. Also visible in the imagery is an eruption of solar material that achieved escape velocity and moved out into space as a giant cloud of gas and magnetic fields known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME. A third, but invisible, feature of such eruptive events also blew off the Sun: a swarm of fast-moving solar energetic particles. Such particles are guided by the magnetic fields streaming out from the Sun, which, due to the Sun’s constant rotation, point backwards in a big spiral much the way water comes out of a spinning sprinkler. The solar energetic particles, therefore, emerging as they did from a part of the Sun not yet completely rotated into our view, traveled along that magnetic spiral away from Earth toward the other side of the Sun. While the solar material didn’t head toward Earth, it did pass by some spacecraft: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, NASA’s STEREO and ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter. Equipped to measure magnetic fields and the particles that pass over them, we may be able to study fast-moving solar energetic particles in the observations once they are downloaded. These sun-watching missions are all part of a larger heliophysics fleet that help us understand both what causes such eruptions on the Sun -- as well as how solar activity affects interplanetary space, including near Earth, where they have the potential to affect astronauts and satellites.

On [DATE], the original Spaceship-3 was launched into space. The launch was a success, and the spaceship successfully reached Earth orbit before returning to Earth safely. The Spaceship-3 is a privately-owned spacecraft that was designed for suborbital spaceflight. It is the first spacecraft to be launched into space by [COMPANY NAME], a company that is developing space tourism and other space exploration technologies. The launch of the Spaceship-3 was a major milestone for [COMPANY NAME] and for the future of space tourism. It showed that private companies are capable of launching spacecraft into space, and it opened up the possibility of more people being able to experience space travel in the future. This video captures the entire launch of the Spaceship-3, from the pre-launch preparations to the successful orbit and return to Earth. It is a must-watch for anyone interested in space travel or