Illustration of an Artemis astronaut on the Moon. Credit: NASA
Upgrade work continues outside the space station …
An updated strategy for landing Artemis astronauts on the Moon …
And unsealing pieces of the past … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at
Upgrade Work Continues Outside the Space Station
On March 23, the crew onboard the International Space Station conducted the second spacewalk this month to continue upgrades to the orbiting laboratory. During the outing, NASA astronaut Raja Chari and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer worked to install new thermal system and electronics components on the station’s U.S. segment. They also worked to install a power and data cable on the Columbus module’s Bartolomeo science platform, replace an external camera on the station’s truss, and conduct other upgrades to station hardware.
Updated Strategy for Landing Artemis Astronauts on the Moon
Also on March 23, we announced plans to create additional opportunities for commercial companies to develop an astronaut Moon lander that can transport humans between our lunar orbiting space station known as Gateway and the lunar surface, for missions beyond Artemis III, which will be the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon in more than 50 years. The announcement is part of a strategy by the agency to pursue two parallel paths for continuing lunar lander development and demonstration, one that calls for additional work under an existing contract with commercial partner, (function(d, s, id){
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