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

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Recovery efforts are underway at NASA’s
Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans,

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which was hit by a tornado Feb. 7.

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In accounting for all 3,500 employees at the
facility, officials reported five suffered

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minor injuries.

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Buildings, structures and parked cars sustained
damage, but there was no reported damage to

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hardware for NASA’s Space Launch System
(SLS) rocket, Orion spacecraft, or the barge

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Pegasus docked at Michoud.

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NASA will release updates on the facility’s
status as they become available.

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The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is targeted to
launch no earlier than Feb. 18 from pad 39A

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at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,
on a cargo resupply mission to the International

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Space Station.

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This will be the first flight from the historic
launch pad since the last space shuttle mission

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in 2011.

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SpaceX has since leased the pad from NASA
and has begun modifications in preparation

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to fly astronauts on NASA missions to the
station under the agency’s Commercial Crew

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Program.

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The cargo being delivered to the station on
this flight includes experiments with potential

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to fight human disease and a new autonomous
spacecraft docking technology for testing.

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The forward skirt for the left-hand solid
rocket booster of NASA's Space Launch System

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(SLS) rocket arrived recently at Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station in Florida, where NASA and

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Orbital ATK engineers will prepare it for
the first uncrewed flight test of the SLS

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with NASA’s Orion spacecraft on top.

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The forward skirts are located near the top
of the solid rocket boosters, which will generate

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a combined 7.2 million pounds of thrust to
help power the massive SLS rocket off Kennedy’s

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launch pad 39B.

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NASA officials from Wallops Flight Facility
and Langley Research Center, both in Virginia,

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visited the state capitol in Richmond recently
as part of the annual NASA AeroSpace Days.

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The event allows leaders from NASA and the
aerospace industry to speak with Virginia

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policymakers about the benefits the aerospace
sector brings to the state – including opportunities

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for employment, commercial partnerships, and
technological innovation.

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