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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of January 29, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Governments to be major customers of future Axiom Space private astronaut missions
- Two decades after the Columbia disaster, is NASA’s safety culture fixed?
- Twenty years after the Columbia disaster, a NASA official reflects on lessons learned
- Watch 2 astronauts perform 2nd spacewalk of 2023 on Thursday morning
- Space Station’s orbit adjustment rescheduled for February 3 for ballistic reasons
- Crew-6: Here’s a look at the four astronauts flying on NASA’s next mission to the ISS
- Bob and Doug receive Congressional Space Medal of Honor from VP Harris
- Former NASA astronauts to receive Congressional Space Medal of Honor
- NASA still working on long-term plans for ISS seat barters
- NASA meeting works to define exploration architecture
Space Science
- The James Webb Space Telescope image shows spiral galaxy in stunning detail
- Don’t bother trying to destroy rubble pile asteroids
- NASA hits limits of Space Station utilization
- James Webb Space Telescope recovers from 2nd instrument glitch
- Astronomers are working on a 3-D map of Cosmic Dawn
- Green comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will be closest to Earth on February 1. Here’s how to see it
- Asteroid mining startup AstroForge to launch first missions this year
- Perseverance Mars rover stashes 10th sample, completing Red Planet depot
- NASA spies Martian rocks that look just like a teddy bear
- A Martian meteorite contains organic compounds. The raw ingredients for life?
- UAE lunar rover will test 1st artificial intelligence on the moon with Canada
- Arriving at Titan: How Dragonfly’s entry, descent, and landing will differ from Mars missions
Other News
- Rolls-Royce reveals a nuclear reactor that could provide power on the Moon
- Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
- Space Force chief: Satellites are under threat, ‘we have to be ready’
- Europe seeks greater autonomy in space traffic management
- Watch NASA test potentially revolutionary 3-D printed rocket engine (video)
- U.S. sanctions Chinese satellite firm for allegedly supplying SAR imagery to Russia’s Wagner Group
- NASA and the Space Force should catalyze the U.S. space economy
- Commerce Department outlines plans for basic space traffic management service
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- Last week, NASA’s annual Day of Remembrance honored the astronauts who lost their lives during three tragedies: the 1967 Apollo 1 fire, the 1986 shuttle Challenger launch and the 2003 re-entry and descent of the shuttle Columbia. The last of the tragedies, Columbia’s loss of seven astronauts, occurred 20 years ago on Wednesday. The casualties included Israel’s Ilan Ramon. On Tuesday and Wednesday Israel will host the annual Ilan Ramon International Space Conference in Tel Aviv with the theme, “Earth and Space Becoming One.”
- In Washington, it was announced that U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, of Washington, will continue to chair the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, whose jurisdiction includes NASA. U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, also of Washington, is the new chair of the Senate Appropriation Committee.
- On Wednesday, the Maryland Space Business Roundtable and Washington Space Business Roundtable will host a joint session with Alicia Brown, NASA’s head of legislative affairs, to discuss civil and commercial space policy for 2023.
- NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata plan a spacewalk on Thursday to continue efforts begun with a January 20 excursion to prepare the starboard truss of the International Space Station (ISS) for the installation of the last two of six total Roll Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs), an upgrade to the ISS’s solar power generation system.