"SpaceX Crew-7 Mission Launches, Storm From Space, and Lunar Exploration: This Week's NASA Highlights"

This week at NASA, the SpaceX Crew-7 mission successfully launched to the International Space Station, where the four-person crew will conduct research and technology demonstrations for the next six months. External cameras on the space station captured views of Hurricane Idalia as it made landfall in Florida. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data was used to train Artemis II astronauts on lunar exploration, and August 30 marked the forty-year anniversary of Guy Bluford becoming the first African American to fly in space.