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"Progress continues on work to prepare the
Orion spacecraft for next year's flight test

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"And the MAVEN spacecraft is on its way to
Mars ... Those are some of the stories trending,

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This Week at NASA!"

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The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution,
or MAVEN spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral

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Air Force Station in Florida on a 10-month
journey to Mars.

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MAVEN will take critical measurements of the
Martian upper atmosphere to investigate how

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loss of the atmosphere to space impacted the
history of water on the planet's surface.

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November 20 marked the fifteenth anniversary
of the launch of Zarya, the International

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Space Station's first module.

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The station's first crew arrived a couple
of years later.

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Since then, humans have continuously conducted
research on technologies we'll need for future

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missions to deep space.

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During a public workshop at Houston's Lunar
and Planetary Institute in Houston NASA examined

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some recently submitted ideas about how to
respond to asteroid threats and identify,

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capture and relocate near-Earth asteroids
for study.

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Some of the ideas will be considered as NASA
refines future plans of its asteroid initiative.

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Flight controllers for NASA's Lunar Atmosphere
and Dust Environment Explorer mission confirmed

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that the LADEE spacecraft has begun the science
phase of its mission -- analyzing lunar dust

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particles while orbiting the moon -- to help
better understand other planetary bodies in

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the solar system.

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NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and others
checked out work underway at Kennedy Space

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Center to prepare the Orion spacecraft for
its flight test next September.

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Meanwhile, a successful separation test of
Orion's protective fairing panels at Lockheed

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Martin ... and at Marshall Space Flight Center
-- some special paint for the adapter that

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will connect Orion to a Delta IV rocket, will
provide protection from electrical discharge

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during the flight test ... and the arrival
of a device designed to repel hot gases away

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from Orion on its way to space.

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At Dryden Flight Research Center, an F/A-18
was used to test an autonomous flight control

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system for NASA's Space Launch System rocket.

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The autopilot system, known as the Adaptive
Augmenting Controller, will enable the SLS

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to respond to post-launch environmental variations
in winds or vehicle flexibility.

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The system should be ready for the rocket's
2017 flight test.

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NASA issued a final Request for Proposals
for its new Commercial Crew Transportation

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Capability contract.

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CCTCap is meant to ensure commercial companies
meet safety requirements for transporting

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NASA crews from U.S. soil to the International
Space Station.

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The procurement phase is expected to include
crewed demonstration missions to the ISS before

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2017.

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Among the group of satellites launched on
an Air Force Minotaur I rocket from Wallops

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Flight Facility November 19 were NASA's PhoneSat2
and TJ-cubesat, the first ever space-bound

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cubesat built by high school students.

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Students from Thomas Jefferson School of Science
and Technology, near Washington, built TJ-cubesat.

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During a White House ceremony, late NASA astronaut
Sally Ride was one of sixteen people awarded

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The Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the Nation's
highest civilian honor.

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The first American woman in space, Ride also
was a passionate advocate for education.

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And that's what's up ... This Week at NASA.