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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of April 2, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Why record-breaking NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch is going to the Moon
- Newly named Artemis II crew to notch many firsts on historic Moon mission
- Artemis II commander chats with Spaceflightnow
- EGS launch team looking forward to working with Artemis II crew
- Meet the four astronauts who’ll fly around the Moon for Artemis II
- NASA announces crew for Artemis II mission
- EGS Integration Console engineers review Artemis I campaign
- NASA set to unveil the crew of astronauts for Moon flyby mission
Space Science
- Mars helicopter Ingenuity goes faster and higher than ever before on 49th Red Planet flight
- Ingredients for life discovered in Perseus molecular cloud in space 1,000 light-years from Earth
- NASA Earth science hosted payload set for launch on Intelsat satellite
- Satellite network will monitor air pollution in near real time
- James Webb Space Telescope spies most ancient galaxies ever observed
- Here’s what we’ve learned from NASA’s DART asteroid-slamming mission so far
- Mars rocks await a ride to Earth, can NASA deliver?
- Astrolab to send rover to the Moon on SpaceX’s Starship
Other News
- China carries out successful rocket vertical landing at sea
- Space Force embraces unconventional ways to attract and retain talent
- How power is blazing a trail for America’s space effort and for nuclear startups
- A New Zealand company has started flying a rocket-powered spaceplane
- Updated space safety document outlines rules of the road for avoiding collisions
- Lockheed Martin selected by Australia for military satcom project
- Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy, to seek buyer
- China’s Space Pioneer reaches orbit with liquid propellant rocket
- SpaceX moves Starship to launch site, and liftoff could be just days away
- South Korea sets record space budget to bolster industry, develop new rocket
- China launches new carrier rocket
- ISRO successfully lands Reusable Launch Vehicle in maiden demo using Chinook helicopter
- Seized property at Baikonur threatens Soyuz-5 program
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- NASA will name the four U.S. and Canadian astronauts assigned to the Artemis II mission on Monday at 11 a.m. EDT, from Johnson Space Center (JSC) facilities in Houston, an activity that will be broadcast on NASA TV and live streamed over www.nasa.gov/nasalive.
- NASA representatives will join Axiom Space for a Thursday 12 p.m. EDT, news briefing on the upcoming Axiom-2 (Ax-2) private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) planned for an early May launch. The four-member Ax-2 crew includes two Saudi Arabian astronauts.
- The European Space Agency (ESA) will present a news brief on the upcoming Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission on Thursday at 8 a.m. EDT, with launch planned for April 13 from French Guiana.
- Also this week, the International Academy of Astronautics’ Planetary Defense Conference will take place Monday through Friday from Vienna, Austria, with webcast sessions.
- NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute are hosting a virtual Lunar Surface Science Workshop Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss potential landing sites for NASA’s Artemis III first post-Apollo era Moon landing with astronauts.