NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks during a demonstration of two NASA spacesuit prototypes for lunar exploration on Tuesday! Videos for For NASA ' s New Suits , ' Mobility ' Is The 1:10 NASA Introduces New Spacesuits For The Moon And Mars MSN!! Kevin Wolf/AP hide caption
NASA has unveiled prototypes of its next-generation spacesuits to be worn inside the Orion spacecraft and on the surface of the moon when American astronauts return there as soon as 2024.
At the space agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., two NASA engineers modeled the new suits destined for the Artemis program , one known as the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), designed for walking around the lunar surface, and the other, the Orion Crew Survival System, a bright orange pressure suit to be worn when astronauts launch from Earth and return.
The design criteria? After keeping the crew safe, including America's first female moonwalker, it's all about mobility.
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NASA's first all-female spacewalk will now take place this week
NASA's first all-female spacewalk has been rescheduled for Thursday or Friday morning, the space agency announced today.
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir had been scheduled to make the excursion from the International Space Station on Oct. 21, but NASA changed the date so that they could make an urgent repair to the station's power system.
"@Space_Station update: our first all-female spacewalk with @Astro_Christina and @Astro_Jessica will be Thursday or Friday to replace a faulty battery charge-discharge unit," NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said Tuesday on Twitter .
The astronauts will replace a "battery charge/discharge unit" that failed Oct. 11, after new lithium-ion batteries were installed during a previous spacewalk! 0:52 NASA Unveils New Spacesuits for 2024 Artemis Moon Mission The Weather Channel!! The malfunction hasn't jeopardized the safety of the crew, the space station or any of the onboard experiments, according to NASA.
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The second interstellar visitor ever detected is plummeting into our solar system, and NASA's Hubble telescope just snapped a clear photo of it.
Read more: It's official: The second interstellar visitor ever discovered is about to fly through our solar system
2I/Borisov is only the second interstellar object ever found to be passing through our solar system. The first such object, the mysterious and cigar-shaped 'Oumuamua (which a few scientists controversially argued could be alien in origin), sped past Earth at a distance of 15 million miles in October 2017.
NASA turned the lens of its most powerful space telescope, Hubble, toward the comet and snapped the clearest photo of it yet on October 12. The agency released the image on Wednesday! For NASA's New Suits, 'Mobility' Is The Watchword ...www.vpr.org/post/ nasas - new - suits - mobility -watchword At the space agency's headquarters in Washington , D. C ., two NASA engineers modeled the new suits destined for the Artemis program , one known as the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), designed for walking around the lunar surface, and the other, the Orion Crew Survival System , a bright orange pressure suit to be worn when astronauts launch from Earth and return.!! At the time of the photo, 2I/Borisov was 260 million miles from Earth.
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After Sparring, NASA and SpaceX Declare a Shared Mission - The New York Times
A visit by the NASA administrator to a rocket factory is usually a predictable show-and-tell of the latest gadgets destined for outer space.
But there may have been some tension below the surface on Thursday when the current administrator, Jim Bridenstine, stopped by the headquarters of SpaceX, the private rocket company of the billionaire Elon Musk, in Hawthorne, Calif. SpaceX is a major contractor for NASA.
Mr. Bridenstine and Mr. Musk had been exchanging nettlesome messages for the past two weeks. Thursday's visit might have been as much about smoothing over ruffled feelings as viewing space hardware.
Taking questions from reporters, both men were complimentary toward each other and said they shared the same goals: to launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule as soon as possible, but not before the spacecraft had passed all of the needed tests.
Moon VIPER: NASA Wants to Send a Water-Sniffing Rover to the Lunar South Pole in 2022 | Space
"We are heavily ensconced in the intersection between science and exploration," Brad Bailey, program scientist with NASA's Lunar Discovery and Exploration Program, said about NASA's lunar program during a Planetary Science Advisory Committee meeting held in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 23. Volatiles are an area of particular overlap between the two programs, hence VIPER's relevance to both.
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On the science side, understanding how water arrived at our closest neighbor would explain how Earth got its own water, even though plate tectonics has destroyed the geologic record of that era. Would-be explorers are on the hunt for fuel or even drinking water they could generate from stores of ice .
But in both cases, the first step is figuring out where the water is — and that's what VIPER is designed to do, not only at the south pole, where it would land, but over the entire lunar surface. "The idea is that that mission is a very important part of looking for volatiles, looking for these potential resources on the lunar surface," Debra Needham, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, told Space.com. "It's a highly desired mission under formulation."
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