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“Here’s some of the stories trending This
Week at NASA!”

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Aboard the International Space Station, the

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Expedition 45 crew – including new Commander
Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren of NASA, said

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goodbye to Gennady Padalka of the Russian
Federal Space Agency, Andreas Mogensen of

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ESA (European Space Agency) and Aidyn Aimbetov
of the Kazakh Space Agency (Kazcosmos) as

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the trio climbed aboard their Soyuz spacecraft
for the return trip to Earth.

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The Soyuz landed safely in Kazakhstan on Sept.
11 Eastern time, Sept. 12 in Kazakhstan -- closing

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out a 168-day mission for Padalka and an 8-day
stay on the station for Mogensen and Aimbetov.

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Engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility
in New Orleans have welded together the first

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two segments of the next Orion crew module
– bringing NASA a small step closer to sending

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astronauts to Mars.

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The primary structure of Orion’s crew module
is made of seven large aluminum pieces welded

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together using a state-of-the-art technique
called friction-stir welding to produce an

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incredibly strong bond.

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This Orion will be launched on NASA’s new
Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a combined

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flight test beyond the far side of the moon.

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At Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville,
Alabama panels for a test version of the Space

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Launch System’s Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter,
or LVSA are being welded together.

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This key piece of hardware connects two major
sections of the SLS -- the core stage and

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the upper stage.

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When test versions of all the rocket’s parts
are completed, engineers will move the 56-foot

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tall structure to a test stand to verify the
integrity of the

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Images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft are giving
scientists the closest-yet views of the gleaming

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bright spots from Occator crater on the dwarf
planet Ceres.

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The images – a composite view made from
two different shots, and virtual fly-around

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animations of the crater, including a topographic
map, have about three times better resolution

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than the
The expected year-long data download begun

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recently by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft,
includes new high resolution images that reveal

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the diversity and complexity of the Pluto
system.

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Some of the early imagery appears to feature
possible dunes; ice flows that apparently

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oozed out of mountainous regions onto plains;
ice lakes; and even networks of valleys that

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may have been carved by material flowing over
Pluto’s surface.

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The images downloaded so far have more than
doubled the amount of Pluto’s surface seen

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at resolutions as good as 440 yards per pixel.

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A memorial event for the Sept. 11, 2001 attack

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on New York’s World Trade Center was held
at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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The event at the center’s Fire Station 1,
paid tribute to the 343 fire and rescue personnel

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who lost their lives during the attack.

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A piece of the World Trade Center also was
also on display at the ceremony.

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On that day, 14 years ago – astronaut Frank
Culbertson – the only American off the planet

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at that time, captured footage of the aftermath
from the International Space Station.

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September is National Preparedness Month … a
perfect opportunity to take advantage of emergency

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training activities offered by your community
or place of work.

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Some employees at NASA headquarters took a
CPR class recently.

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The Emergency Management Teams at all NASA
facilities encourage everyone to visit www.ready.gov

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to learn more about what to do at work and
home to prepare for the unexpected.

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And that’s what’s up this week @NASA …