NASA Artemis Crew Transportation Vehicle (CTV) Demo | Kennedy Space Center This is an example of the type of vehicle NASA's Artemis astronauts will use on the drive to the launchpad for crewed missions to the Moon starting with Artemis II & Artemis III at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Canoo Technologies Inc., was awarded a contract to design and provide the next generation of Crew transportation vehicles (CTVs) for the Artemis crewed missions. Representatives with Canoo were at the spaceport on May 11, 2022, demonstrating the environmentally friendly fleet of vehicles. Artemis II will be the first Artemis mission flying crew aboard the Orion spacecraft. NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon on Artemis II, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. Image 1 A concept design of a crew transportation vehicle (CTV) for Artemis crewed missions is driven inside the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 11, 2022. Image 2 Prototypes of the crew transportation vehicle (CTV) for Artemis crewed missions are driven out to Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 11, 2022. Images 3 & 4 Technicians from Johnson Space Center, dressed in flight suits, secure themselves inside a prototype of a crew transportation vehicle (CTV) for Artemis crewed missions outside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 11, 2022. Image 5 Kennedy Space Center Director Janet Petro, at right test drives a concept design crew transportation vehicle (CTV) for Artemis crewed missions on May 11, 2022. With her, from left, are Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis I launch director, and Josette Sheeran, president of Canoo Technologies, Inc. Canoo's website: https://www.canoo.com Learn more about NASA's Artemis Program: https://lnkd.in/eVpAUqgK https://lnkd.in/ePAx7JMV Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center/Kim Shiflett Capture Date: May 11, 2022 NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Janet Petro Barbara Zelon Bob Jacobs Canoo European Space Agency - ESA German Aerospace Center (DLR) Agenzia Spaziale Italiana Centre National d'Études Spatiales JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne UAE Space Agency UK Space Agency Australian Space Agency ISRO AIAA Association of Space Explorers National Space Society Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) SEDS Canada Space Generation Advisory Council Canadian Space Society ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) #NASA #ESA #Space #Moon #Artemis #ArtemisII #ArtemisIII #SLS #Rocket #DeepSpace #Orion #Spacecraft #Astronauts #Mars #JourneyToMars #MoonToMars #Science #Engineering #Technology #SolarSystem #Exploration #KSC #CTV #Canoo #Florida #Spaceport #UnitedStates #Europe #STEM #Education

Chinese astronauts land on Earth after China's longest crewed space mission: Three Chinese astronauts returned to earth on Saturday after 183 days in space, state television reported, completing the country's longest crewed space mission to date. The astronauts landed nine hours after they left a key module of China's first space station. While in orbit, the Shenzhou-13 mission astronauts took manual control in the Tianhe living quarters module for what state media called a "docking experiment" with the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft.

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Indian-origin NASA astronaut candidate Dr Anil Menon set to join training in January 2022: Indian-origin physician Anil Menon, a lieutenant colonel at the US Air Force, has been selected by NASA along with nine others to be astronauts for future missions, the American space agency has announced. Menon, 45, was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Ukrainian and Indian immigrants. He was SpaceX's first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company's first humans to space during NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission and building a medical organisation to support the human system during future missions.

China had launched the Shenzhou-13 spaceship on October 16, sending three astronauts on a six-month mission to the under-construction space station which was expected to be ready by next year. Wang Yaping became the first Chinese woman astronaut to walk in space as she moved out of the under-construction space station and took part in extravehicular activities for over six hours along with her male colleague Zhai Zhigang. The two moved out of the space station core module called Tianhe and spent 6.5 hours of the spacewalk in the early.

China had launched the Shenzhou-13 spaceship on October 16, sending three astronauts on a six-month mission to the under-construction space station which was expected to be ready by next year. Wang Yaping became the first Chinese woman astronaut to walk in space as she moved out of the under-construction space station and took part in extravehicular activities for over six hours along with her male colleague Zhai Zhigang. The two moved out of the space station core module called Tianhe and spent 6.5 hours of the spacewalk in the early.

China's Shenzhou-13 spacecraft carrying three Chinese astronauts docked on October 16 at its space station, kicking off a record-setting six-month stay as the country moves toward completing the new orbiting outpost. The spacecraft was launched by a Long March-2F rocket at 12:23 a.m. on October 16 and docked with the Tianhe core module of the Tiangong space station at 6:56 a.m., approximately six and a half hours later.

Europa, Jupiter's fourth-biggest moon has always been a source of fascination for both scientists and non-scientists alike, so much so that in 2013 director Sebastián Cordero made a movie around it. Dubbed Europa Report, the fictional plot showed an international crew of astronauts undertaking a privately funded mission to search for life on its surface. Science seems to be catching up to the fiction now, as the Hubble space telescope has picked up the presence of persistent water vapour on this moon.

Actor William Shatner soared aboard a Blue Origin rocketship on a suborbital trip and landed in the Texas desert on Wednesday to become at age 90 the oldest person ever in space as U.S. billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos's company carried out its second tourist flight. Shatner was one of four passengers to journey to the edge of space aboard the white fully autonomous 60-foot-tall (18.3 meters-tall) New Shepard spacecraft, which took off from Blue Origin's launch site about 20 miles (32 km) outside the rural west Texas town of Van Horn. The four astronauts experienced about three to four minutes of weightlessness and traveled above the internationally recognized boundary of space known as the Karman Line, about 62 miles (100 km) above Earth. The crew capsule returned to the Texas desert under parachutes, raising a cloud of dust.