Returning astronauts to the moon is NASA's biggest challenge, but not its only one: report. NASA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has issued its annual report for 2023, highlighting the challenges that lie ahead for the U.S. space agency. The report recognizes innovations made by NASA since its creation in 1958 that have made it a global space science leader, including programs such as Apollo, the space shuttle, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and emerging technologies for sustainable aviation. It also highlights substantial cost growth and lengthy schedule delays as issues that continue to impact NASA programs ranging from space flight to major science and exploratory programs. A major factor in the OIG report is the planned return of humans to the moon as part of the Artemis Program, and it also points to the forthcoming retirement of the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of the decade and the challenge this poses to NASA as it seeks to maintain an active human presence in low Earth orbit.
Challenge 1: Return to the moon.
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Space Solar Power Aids Space Settlement Students: Gaurav Kumar, Deepak Talwar, Harman Jot Singh Walia, Mahiyal B. Singh, Kaenat Seth, Ishaan Mehta, and Navdeep Singh Makkar Advisors: The teachers of Spring Dale Senior School in Amritsar, India. Stephen Buchanan of Ohio University served as a Space Journal Liaison The Grand Prize for the 2011 NASA Ames Space Settlement Contest went to a team of 7 students (11-12 grades) from Punjab, India for creating the Hyperion Space Settlement. This year the contest received 355 submissions from 1078 students sponsored by 114 teachers. Entries came from 14 countries: Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, India, Ireland, Japan, Pakistan, Romania, Singapore, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and the United States.
This section describes the principal energy components of the Hyperion Space Settlement. Sunlight being abundantly available in space, electricity will be produced to meet the settlement’s basic energy requirements. Asteroid Contingency top. Exploration Flight Test 1. Overview[edit] The spacecraft will remain attached to the Delta IV's Upper Stage until reentry begins and will rely on internal batteries for power rather than photovoltaic arrays, which will not be installed.[3] The flight is intended to test various Orion systems, including avionics, heat shielding and parachutes prior to its debut launch aboard the Space Launch System, currently scheduled for late 2017.[4] EFT-1 Orion is being built by Lockheed Martin.[5] On June 22, 2012, the final welds of the EFT-1 Orion were completed at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana.[5] It was then transported to Kennedy Space Center's Operations and Checkout Building, which is where the remainder of the spacecraft will be completed.[6] Data gathered from the test flight will be analyzed by the Critical Design Review (CDR) in April, 2015.[7] After splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, crews will recover the EFT-1 Orion crew vehicle and outfit the capsule for an ascent abort test.[8]
NASA. Nasa spaceflight. July 31, 2013 by Pete Harding International Space Station (ISS) program managers and engineers are working on long-term plans to support future crew and cargo vehicles, including the installation of a new docking system onto the station for use by future commercial crew vehicles, along with the relocation of some Station modules, in order to free up ports for use by future crew and cargo spacecraft. New ISS docking system: In preparation for the arrival of new commercial crew vehicles to the ISS in late 2017 – which will use a brand new docking system – the existing docking ports on the ISS need to be converted to the new standard, before any commercial crew vehicles can dock to the outpost. Docking is a process where a port on an arriving spacecraft impacts a corresponding port on the ISS, whereupon capture is made, with all necessary power/data connections later being made automatically upon hard-dock. ISS reconfiguration: (Images: L2 Content, NASA, SNC) Share This Article.