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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of February 26, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Crew-6 launch scrubbed
- SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts will answer ‘burning questions’ with Space Station science
- Space Station crew welcomes replacement Soyuz amid Crew Dragon launch preps in Florida
- Next spacewalk under Russian program will take place in April or May
- NASA plans to start work this year on first Gateway logistics mission
- China unveils lunar lander to put astronauts on the Moon
- JAXA’s 2 new astronauts could be first Japanese on the Moon
- NASA’s William Hartwell updates on Artemis I and future ESMs
- Here are 10 things you need to know about NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 launch just after midnight Thursday
- China to expand its space station, international astronaut selection underway
- Second time’s the charm for Crew-6
- Auroras, spacecraft mods and more: SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts reflect on their time in orbit
- Does the Moon need its own time zone? We may need to decide soon
- China’s Shenzhou-15 astronauts conduct secretive second spacewalk
- SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at Space Station, delivering three-country, four-man crew for sixth stay
Space Science
- Asteroid Ryugu is rich in organic molecules that can be building blocks of life
- Venus is like an exoplanet that is right next door
- Strong geomagnetic storms
- Heliophysics director named NASA associate administrator for science
- China’s Zhurong rover reveals complex layers beneath the surface of Mars
- Scientists from Russia, India developing Marsoplane to study Red Planet
- NASA’s DART impactor shows how planetary defense can work
- Remember the DART impact? Hubble made a movie of the debris
- Artemis astronauts may be able to spray away sticky Moon dust
- Mars helicopter Ingenuity soars between Red Planet airfields on 46th flight
- Study highlights concerns over satellite interference with Hubble observations
- China plans Tianwen-2 mission for asteroid sampling
Opinion
- Why space companies want to make solar cells from lunar dirt
Other News
- Startup developing sea-based launch pads
- Commercial space a key topic for National Space Council advisory group
- After Vulcan comes online, ULA plans to dramatically increase launch cadence
- Tennessee company gets multibillion-dollar NASA contract for Kennedy Space Center operations
- Democrats step up pressure on Biden to reverse Trump’s decision on space HQ
- Blue Origin continues investigation into New Shepard anomaly
- Industry group to examine potential security threats in cislunar space
- Rocket Lab reconsidering mid-air recovery of Electron boosters
- White House cybersecurity strategy warns of ‘complex threat environment’
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- Scrubbed for launched on Monday at 1:45 a.m. EST, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), the four NASA Crew-6 astronauts, NASA’s Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg, Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi are looking for a second chance to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday at 12:34 a.m. EST.
- Five days later, NASA’s Crew-5 astronauts, NASA’s Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and cosmonaut Anna Kikina are to descend to Earth for a parachute-assisted splashdown off the Florida peninsula.
- Among several space policy conferences planned for this week is the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s three-day “NASA Mission Critical Workforce, Infrastructure and Technology” session that gets underway on Wednesday with a closed session, followed by two days of open sessions on Thursday and Friday.