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More partners in space exploration, new data measuring ocean health, air quality and our climate, and an upgrade to testing facilities for Artemis II … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

Following the shadow of the total solar eclipse, a NASA astronaut returns safely from the space station, and our lunar-roving robot gets some new hardware … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Video Producer: Andre Valentine Video Editor: Andre Valentine Narrator: Emanuel Cooper Music: Universal Production Music Credit: NASA

Advancing Moon mobility for Artemis astronauts, getting ready for the total solar eclipse, and a milestone engine test for our Artemis Moon rocket … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

On April 8, 2024, North America's last total solar eclipse until 2045 moved across the continent. It made landfall in Mexico, crossed the United States from Texas to Maine, and departed across Canada’s Atlantic coast. This video offers viewers highlights of the eclipse from NASA's live commentary. Different vantage points include the International Space Station, WB-57 aircraft, and 12 telescopes stationed across North America. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun. The sky darkens as if it were dawn or dusk.

Watch NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus return home from the International Space Station. Their Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft will head for a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 3:17 a.m. EDT Saturday, April 6 (0717 UTC).

These girls have one thing in common: THE VOICE. Watch a compilation of amazing Blind Auditions in The Voice Kids here!

NASA revealed the first five full-color images and spectrographic data from the world's most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency), and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). The world got its first look at the full capabilities of the mission at a live event streamed from the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on July 12, 2022. The event showcased these targets: - Carina Nebula: A landscape speckled with glittering stars and cosmic cliffs - Stephan’s Quintet: An enormous mosaic with a visual grouping of five galaxies - Southern Ring Nebula: A nebula with rings of gas and dust for thousands of years in all directions - WASP 96-b: A distinct signature of water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet orbiting a distant Sun-like star - SMACS 0723: The deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date

Live from the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps and Loral O'Hara are joined by NASA experts live at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. The panel of explorers in orbit and on Earth talk about how you can get involved with space station research and technology. Find out how to fly a scientific experiment, move your business forward, or find inspiration from the explorers living and working in space, as well as how to spot the station when it flies over your part of the globe. Whether you're an entrepreneur, a professional researcher, or just plain curious, this session is for you.

NASA hosted a news conference from the Johnson Space Center in Houston April 3, 2024, to announce the companies selected to move forward in the development of the Lunar Terrain Vehicle under the LTVS (Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services) contract. The award leverages NASA’s expertise in developing and operating these next generation "Moon buggies" to build commercial capabilities that support scientific discovery and long-term human exploration on the Moon. NASA intends to begin using the LTV for crewed operations during the Artemis V mission on the surface of the Moon.

Astronauts Stephen Bowen, Woody Hoburg, Frank Rubio and Sultan Alneyadi are on a mission to get you ready for the upcoming total eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024.

During an event at NASA Headquarters in Washington Thursday, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra united to note progress their respective agencies are making in space and on Earth toward President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative. Also participating in the event was Dr. W. Kimryn Rathmell, director of the National Cancer Institute, as well as NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Frank Rubio, both of whom each recently served extended science missions 250 miles off Earth aboard the International Space Station where they conducted cancer-related research. Learn more about the Cancer Moonshot at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/cancermoon... Credit: NASA

A commercial mission carries science to the space station, highlighting progress in the fight against cancer, and preparing to test new hardware for our Artemis Moon rocket … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Video Producer: Andre Valentine Video Editor: Andre Valentine Narrator: Emanuel Cooper Music: Universal Production Music Credit: NASA

A NASA astronaut is one of the space station’s newest residents, planning for the upcoming total solar eclipse, and a notable award for an historic asteroid sample return mission … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Video Producer: Andre Valentine Video Editor: Andre Valentine Narrator: Emanuel Cooper Music: Universal Production Music Credit: NASA

On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will move across North America, traveling through Mexico, across the United States from Texas to Maine, and out across Canada’s Atlantic coast. Pop star Lance Bass has some safety tips to share so that you don’t say "Bye, Bye, Bye" to your eye, eye, eyes.

Discussing the strong state of NASA, a safe return from the space station, and testing critical hardware for a future mission … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Video Producer: Andre Valentine Video Editor: Andre Valentine Narrator: Emanuel Cooper Music: Universal Production Music Credit: NASA

Today we mourn the passing of Thomas P. Stafford at the age of 93. In December 1965, Stafford piloted Gemini VI, the first rendezvous in space, and helped develop techniques to prove the basic theory and practicality of space rendezvous. Later he commanded Gemini IX and performed a demonstration of an early rendezvous that would be used in the Apollo lunar missions, the first optical rendezvous, and a lunar orbit abort rendezvous. He served as the commander of the Apollo 10 ‘dress rehearsal’ mission preparing for the first Moon landing and as Apollo commander of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission, a joint space flight culminating in the historic first meeting in space between American Astronauts and Soviet Cosmonauts, which ended the International space race. Throughout his career, Stafford helped us push the boundaries of what's possible in air and space, flying more than 100 different types of aircraft. Credit: NASA Music: Universal Production Music Producer: Sonnet Apple

A new crew launches to the space station, graduating a new class of Artemis astronauts, and a group of tiny lunar-roving robots are ready to roll … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

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The 2024 astronaut graduating class gives you an insider's look at not only the who's who of their graduating class, but it allows you to get a glimpse of the accomplished astronauts’ personalities. To see them together as a group, connecting through laughter helps to illustrate how much they value team care. These classic superlatives give the scoop on which astronaut is the best dancer, the funniest, and more. Enjoy seeing a lighter side of "The Flies" in this fun and upbeat montage of the 2024 astronaut graduating class. Credit: NASA #Astronauts #NASA

We’re recruiting for our next class of NASA astronauts. Selected candidates could fly on Artemis missions to the Moon and, eventually, Mars. Will you be one of them?

An historic delivery to the Moon’s South Pole, a record-breaking scientific balloon flight, and an asteroid mission’s close pass of the Sun … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

NASA will honor the next generation of Artemis astronaut candidates to graduate at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 UTC) Tuesday, March 5, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. After completing more than two years of basic training, these candidates will earn their wings and become eligible for spaceflight, including assignments to the International Space Station, future commercial destinations, missions to the Moon, and eventually, missions to Mars.

We're saddened by the passing of Astronaut Richard Truly at the age of 86. In 1965, Truly became one of the first military astronauts selected to the Air Force’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory program and transferred to NASA as an astronaut in August 1969. He served as capsule communicator for all three Skylab missions in 1973 and the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975. He was pilot for one of the two-astronaut crews that flew the 747/Space Shuttle Enterprise approach and landing test flights during 1977. He then was backup pilot for STS-1, the first orbital test of the Shuttle. His first space flight was as pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-2), significant as the first piloted spacecraft to be reflown in space. His second flight (STS-8) was as commander of Space Shuttle Challenger, the first night launch and landing in the Shuttle program. The former Shuttle astronaut served as the first commander of the Naval Space Command in Dahlgren, Virginia, established Oct. 1, 1983. Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly returned to NASA to become NASA’s Associate Administrator for Space Flight on February 20, 1986. In this position, he led the painstaking rebuilding of the Space Shuttle program. This was highlighted by NASA’s celebrated “return to flight” on September 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on the first Shuttle mission in almost 3 years. He served as NASA’s eighth Administrator from February 1989 to 1992. Credit: NASA Music: Universal Production Music Video Producer: Sonnet Apple

During their time on the International Space Station, Crew-7 grew space tomatoes, took part in medical studies, and conducted many other science experiments and technology demonstrations to benefit people on Earth and prepare humans for future space missions.

In this special episode of our Curious Universe podcast, we turn the tables and put host Padi Boyd in the interview seat. Padi shares stories from her time with NASA’s groundbreaking Kepler mission, which showed us many more exoplanets—planets orbiting other stars—than we had previously discovered. She also tells us about her dream astronomical dinner companion and her go-to karaoke song. Plus, we'll wrap up another season of wild and wonderful adventures by answering questions from listeners like you and sharing behind-the-scenes tidbits from Season 6. For the first time, this episode of Curious Universe is also available as a video podcast.