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

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Outside the International Space Station, Expedition
48 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer

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Kate Rubins of NASA installed the first of
two International Docking Adapters onto the

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forward end of the station’s Harmony module,
during a spacewalk on Aug. 19.

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“And with that, we have a new port of call
for the new U.S. Commercial Crew vehicles.”

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The new docking port will be used by the Boeing
CST-100 “Starliner” and SpaceX Crew Dragon

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commercial crew spacecraft being developed
to transport U.S. astronauts to and from the

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station.

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The second International Docking Adapter – currently
under construction – eventually will be

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placed on the space-facing side of the Harmony
module.

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On August 15, at Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station in Florida, engineers installed the

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Crew Access Arm and White Room that astronauts
will use to board Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner

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spacecraft prior to launches atop the United
Launch Alliances Atlas V rocket.

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This milestone completes the major construction
of the first new Crew Access Tower to be built

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along Florida's Space Coast since the Apollo
era.

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The Starliner system will be certified by
NASA's Commercial Crew Program to fly crews

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to and from the International Space Station
under a contract with the agency.

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August 17 marked the 10-year anniversary of
the agency’s commercial cargo resupply program,

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or COTS, which returned American cargo resupply
missions to U.S. soil – and laid the groundwork

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for the effort to return American launches
of humans to space.

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A NASA Social held on Aug. 18, at the agency’s
Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans,

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Louisiana, and the Stennis Space Center near
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi provided an opportunity

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for social and traditional media to see the
progress the agency is making on the Journey

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to Mars.

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The event included exhibits of NASA’s robotic
scientific exploration of the Red Planet,

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tours of manufacturing facilities at Michoud
– where construction is underway on the

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core stage for the Space Launch System (SLS)
rocket, and a test firing at Stennis of one

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of the RS-25 rocket engines that will power
the SLS, The SLS will be the world’s most

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powerful rocket, and launch astronauts in
the agency’s Orion spacecraft on deep space

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missions, including to an asteroid and eventually
to Mars.

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NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) has
reached a key developmental milestone known

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as Key Decision Point-B, or KDP-B.

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The milestone clears the mission to proceed
to the next phase of design and development

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for the mission’s robotic segment.

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KDP-B, which was approved by agency management
on Aug. 15, is one in a series of project

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lifecycle milestones that every NASA spaceflight
mission passes prior to launch.

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Launch of ARM’s robotic mission is targeted
for December 2021.The two-part mission will

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integrate robotic and crewed spacecraft operations
in the proving ground of deep space to demonstrate

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key capabilities needed for the Journey to
Mars.

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On Aug. 17, NASA hosted a news briefing at
the agency’s headquarters in Washington

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to preview the launch of the Origins, Spectral
Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith

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Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft.

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OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. spacecraft designed
to rendezvous with, study and return a sample

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of an asteroid.

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It’s scheduled to launch Sept. 8 from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to

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an asteroid called Bennu.

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The mission represents a valuable opportunity
to learn more about the origins of our solar

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system, the sources of water and organic molecules
on Earth, and the hazards and resources in

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near-Earth space.

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NASA’s Atmospheric Carbon and Transport
― America, or ACT-America, airborne science

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campaign recently spent two weeks flying missions
out of Lincoln, Nebraska – collecting data

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on the movement of carbon dioxide and methane
in the skies over the Midwest.

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America’s agricultural heartland is ripe
with greenhouse gas fluxes due to the methane

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produced by livestock and carbon dioxide consumed
by crops there.

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ACT-America moves to Shreveport, Louisiana
for the final leg of the 2016 flight campaign

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with flights over the Gulf of Mexico and the
dense forests of the southeast.

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