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

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NASA’s Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot
visited the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility

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in New Orleans Feb. 13 to view damage from
the Feb. 7 tornado strike, and to speak with

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employees about ongoing recovery efforts at
the facility.

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The work at Michoud is critical to supporting
the production, testing and final integration

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of the core stage of NASA’s Space Launch
System deep space rocket, the largest rocket

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stage ever built.

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Evaluations of a NASA-developed flight control
software are scheduled to wrap up around Feb.

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21 in Washington state.

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The agency is testing the Air Traffic Management
Technology Demonstration-1 (ATD-1), which

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is designed to provide precise spacing information
to airplanes on approach to airports, so more

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planes can land safely, save fuel, and reduce
engine emissions – all the while improving

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schedule efficiency to help more passengers
arrive on time.

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On Feb. 14, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
announced the selection of its two newest

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inductees.

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Ellen Ochoa, current director of NASA’s
Johnson Space Center, veteran of four spaceflights

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and the first Hispanic woman to go to space,
and Mike Foale, who has served on the space

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shuttle, and both the Russian space station
Mir, and the International Space Station,

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will be inducted to the hall during a May
19 ceremony at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor

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Complex in Florida.

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Two NASA employees were recognized at the
annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA)

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STEM Conference, Feb. 9-11 in Washington.

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Allen Parker, research engineer and Fiber
Optic Sensing System (FOSS) Team Lead at Armstrong

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Flight Research Center received the career
achievement award in government, and Janet

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Sellars, NASA’s acting associate administrator
for Diversity and Equal Opportunity at headquarters

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received the organization’s corporate promotion
of education award.

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The event highlights top professionals and
students in science, technology, engineering

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and mathematics.

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NASA presented its Exceptional Public Achievement
Award to Ted Melfi and Margot Lee Shetterly,

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Feb. 15 at the agency’s headquarters in
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Melfi and Shetterly are the director and author,
respectively, of the movie and book “Hidden

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Figures”, which highlights a group of female
NASA mathematicians that made critical calculations

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for historic spaceflights in the early days
of the space program.

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The award recognizes non-government individuals
for significant specific achievement or substantial

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improvement in operations, efficiency, service,
financial savings, science, or technology,

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which contributes to the mission of NASA.

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And that’s what’s up this week @NASA …
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For more on these and other stories follow
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I was born in Iowa, and raised on a farm.

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My dad and mom grew cattle, and hogs, and
corn, and soybeans.

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Their incredible work ethic, I think, is something
that has contributed to my success.

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I think that can-do attitude, that we've got
to make it work, let's figure it out, never

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give up kind of attitude has been very important.

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When I was nine years old, I watched the first
guys walk on the moon, and it made an impact

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on me.

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I was very impressed.

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My father had a dream to learn to how to fly.

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He learned how to fly when I was 10, and so
I got to go

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on my first airplane ride when I was 10.

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I think all these things together, you know,
contributed to this fact that I could be what

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I wanted to be, and I obviously had the support
of my parents believing in me, even though,

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at the time, young girls weren't supposed
to do those kinds of things.When I graduated

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from high school, it was the first year they
picked female astronauts, and I think that

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was another key moment in my life, and I think
that was when becoming an astronaut changed

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from being a dream and into a goal.

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When I dreamed of being an astronaut, I had
no idea how difficult it would be, or what

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that odds would be in order to actually get
in,

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and I think that work ethic, that dedication
was things that, in the end, helped me be

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successful.

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I'm Peggy Whitson, astronaut, a member of
the NASA village that makes space exploration

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possible.

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“Ever wonder what life is like in space?

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Or what’s happening with the science aboard
the International Space Station?