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The SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule was recently

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detached from the International Space Station
for its return to Earth, just over a month

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after delivering about 5,000 pounds of supplies
and experiments to the ISS. Dragon safely

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returned to Earth with more than 3,200 pounds
of NASA cargo and science samples – completing

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the company’s fourth resupply mission to
the station.

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A Destination Station forum on October 27

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at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, near Marshall
Space Flight Center featured a series of live,

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interactive panel discussions about some of
the cutting-edge technologies being tested

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on the space station. Research performed on
the ISS provides benefits to life on Earth,

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and prepares NASA to send humans farther into
the solar system than ever before.

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NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden visited

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Marshall during the week of October 27. While
there, he toured Marshall’s Payload Operations

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Integration Center, which oversees science
experiments on the station.

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“Station, this is Payload Ops Center, Charlie
Bolden for a voice check, how do you read?”

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The administrator put in a long distance call
to NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Reid Wiseman,

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to discuss recent activities on the orbiting
laboratory, and the crew’s busy schedule.

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Bolden also attended the 7th annual Wernher
Von Braun Memorial Symposium with other NASA

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leaders and\hcommented on the work conducted
on the space station in support of our journey

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to Mars, and the progress in developing technologies
and systems needed to get us there.

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Orbital Sciences’ is conducting an investigation

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into what went wrong shortly after liftoff
of its Antares rocket on October 28 at NASA’s

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Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Antares
was carrying the Cygnus cargo craft to orbit

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for its resupply flight to the space station.
No injuries were reported and the crew onboard

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the ISS is fine; there are enough supplies
to sustain the crew well into next year. Despite

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the accident, NASA remains committed to expanding
the capability of launching cargo and crew

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from American shores to the International
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After a three-month stay at the station, the

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Russian Progress 56 cargo ship left on October
27, loaded with trash and unwanted items.

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That made room for the Progress 57, which
launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

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on October 29 -- docking later the same day
with almost three tons of food and materials.

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NASA astronaut Terry Virts participated in

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final qualification training October 30 and
31, in Star City, Russia with his Expedition

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42/43 crewmates, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian
Federal Space Agency and European Space Agency

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astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. They are
the next crew headed to the ISS – launch

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is scheduled for November 23, eastern time.
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Testing of a 35-inch-long Space Launch System
booster separation model in Langley Research

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Center’s Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, is helping
NASA engineers better understand the aerodynamic

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forces the real SLS rocket will encounter
as it flies through the atmosphere. The wind

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tunnel produces air speeds over 2,400 mph.
The SLS will be the world’s most powerful

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rocket, capable of launching astronauts aboard
the Orion spacecraft to deep space destinations.

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A naturally occurring trick on Jupiter produced

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a celestial treat of an image – befitting
Halloween. The photo taken by the Hubble Space

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Telescope appears to show Jupiter staring
back at Hubble like a one-eyed giant Cyclops.

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However, the dark spot inside the planet’s
Great Red Spot storm isn’t a pupil – but

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a shadow that was cast by Jupiter’s moon,
Ganymede as it orbited the planet.

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