Nasa News – Week Ending May 10th, 2024

Nasa News – Week Ending May 10th, 2024

• A new Target launch date for crew flight
• Test making progress on major hardware for Gateway
• Presidential honors for helping to advance NASA’s Mission
• A few  of the stories to tell you about this week at Nasa NASA

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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 Starliner spacecraft.  After the successful completion of the mission, NASA could
certify Starliner for rotational crude missions to the space station.

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, former Center Director and Astronaut at our Johnson Space Center and Dr Jane Rigby, senior project scientist for NASA’s James web Space Telescope were each presented with a presidential medal of freedom recently by President Joe Biden.