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A safe return from the International Space
Station …

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A new weather satellite launched into orbit
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And our next mission to Mars moves closer
to launch … a few of the stories to tell

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you about - This Week at NASA!

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After saying farewell to colleagues aboard
the International Space Station, our Mark

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Vande Hei and Joe Acaba - along with Russia's
Alexander Misurkin safely returned to Earth

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on Feb. 27.

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The crew's Soyuz spacecraft touched down in
Kazakhstan - wrapping up a nearly six-month

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mission conducting research and operational
work in support of the space station.

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"3-2-1 … and liftoff."

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S

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-- or GOES-S -- launched from Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station, on March 1.

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It will provide faster, more accurate data
on wildfires, tropical cyclones, and other

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hazards affecting the western U.S. - and the
Pacific Ocean - all the way to New Zealand.

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Our InSight spacecraft was shipped from Lockheed
Martin Space, in Denver to California's Vandenberg

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Air Force Base - to prepare for its launch
to Mars in May.

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InSight will be the first mission to study
the activity deep beneath the Martian surface.

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It's also the first interplanetary spacecraft
to launch from the west coast facility.

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NASA gold-plating technology, used on spacecraft
as far back as the 1970s, also plays a supporting

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role at the Academy Awards.

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The gold-plating technique - perfected over
many NASA projects by Brooklyn, NY-based Epner

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Technology - is used to make the Academy's
coveted Oscar statuettes harder, shinier,

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and more durable than possible with traditional
gold-plating.

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The company has provided gold-plating for
spacecraft that have traveled to Mars, and

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most recently, the James Webb Space Telescope
that will launch next year to help answer

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questions about our universe.

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That's what's up this week @NASA …