NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

A major milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope, what astronomers could learn from a “mini” monster black hole, and the latest assessment of our planet’s global surface temperature … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA.

A major milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope, what astronomers could learn from a mini monster black hole, and the latest assessment of our planet’s global surface temperature – a few of the stories to tell you about this week at NASA.

On January 8th, our James Webb Space Telescope team reached a major mission milestone when it finished deploying the telescope’s 21-foot primary mirror.

This is one of the first times that an obscured supermassive black hole has been found in a dwarf galaxy.

When their training is complete they could be assigned to missions aboard the International Space Station, launches from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, or Artemis missions to the moon with NASA’s Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket.

As teams continue to prepare our Space Launch System or SLS rocket for this year’s uncrewed artemis one flight test around the moon we and our partners across the country are also making progress building the rocket for Artemis II the first Artemis moon mission with astronauts?

We are also busy manufacturing and testing major parts of rocket hardware for the Artemis 3, 4, and 5 missions.

January 12, 2022

January 12, 2022

January 12, 2022

January 12, 2022

January 12, 2022

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