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A new target launch date for our Boeing
crew flight test.
making progress on major hardware for
Gateway
and presidential honors for helping to
advance NASA's mission. A few of the
stories to tell you about this week at
NASA.
NASA, Boeing, and United Launch Alliance
are now targeting no earlier than May
17th for the launch of our Boeing Crew
flight test to the International Space
Station.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunny
Williams will be the first astronauts to
fly to the station aboard Boeing
Starlininer spacecraft.
After the successful completion of the
mission, NASA could certify Starlininer
for rotational crude missions to the
space station.
Our Artemis 4 mission is taking shape
with teams in Italy making progress on
major hardware for Gateway, humanity's
first space station to orbit the moon.
The first two elements of gateway, the
habitation and logistics outpost or halo
and the power and propulsion element
will launch to lunar orbit ahead of
Artemis 4. Halo is one of the gateway
modules where astronauts will live,
conduct science, and prepare for lunar
surface missions.
Dr. Ellen Ooa, former center director
and astronaut at our Johnson Space
Center, and Dr. Jane Rigby, senior
project scientist for NASA's James Webb
Space Telescope, were each presented
with a Presidential Medal of Freedom
recently by President Joe Biden. OOA was
recognized for her leadership at NASA
Johnson and for being the first Hispanic
woman in space. And Rigby was recognized
for her work leading web, NASA's
transformational space telescope.
A new immersive visualization made with
a NASA supercomput takes viewers inside
the event horizon, a black holes point
of no return.
There are multiple versions of the
visualization, including a 360° version.
The project generated about 10 terab of
data and took the supercomput about 5
days to make. For comparison, it would
take a typical laptop computer more than
a decade to make.
Learn more at go.mnasa.gov/blackhole360.
That's what's up this week at NASA. For
more about what else we're up to, check
out nasa.gov.