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An international crew is preparing to launch to the International Space Station aboard NASA's SpaceX crew-7 mission. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) Astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos will perform research technology demonstration, science experiments, and maintenance activities aboard a microgravity laboratory. Crew-7 is targeted to launch no earlier than 3:49 a.m. EDT on Friday, Aug. 25 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. At part of the agency's Commerical Crew Program, Crew-7 marks at eighth human spaceflight mission supported by a spaceX Dragon spacecraft at the seventh crew rotation mission to the space station since 2020 for NASA. You can watch the launch live on NASA TV, NASA.gov, the NASA app, and on social media (@NASA).

A commercial resupply mission heads to the space station, a key piece of hardware for a future Moon mission is on this move, and another spacecraft gets ready to spread its wings in deep space ... a few of the stories to tell you about — This week at NASA!

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 the question. Once it lands at the lunar south pole, our PRIME-1 — Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 — will robotically sample and analyze ice from beneath the lunar surface, contributing to our search for water on the Moon: Producer: Jessica Wilde, Scott Bednar

Find out why July 2023 was a record-breaking month, a high-flying NASA aircraft is helping to study lightning and making landings safe for flights of the future ... a few of the stories to tell you about — This week at NASA!

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's Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on July 12, 2022. The event showcased these target: - Carina Nebula: A landscape speckled with glittering stars and and cosmic cliffs - Stephen Quintet: An enormous mosaic with a visual grouping of five galaxies - Southern Ring Nebula: A nebula with rings of gas and dust from thousands of years in all directions - WASP 96-b: A district signature of water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet orbiting a distant Sun-like stars - SMACS 0723: The deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date