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The plan to put humans on the Moon by 2024
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Wrapping up a series of spacewalks on the
space station …

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And an historic first look at a black hole
… a few of the stories to tell you about

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– This Week at NASA!

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During his keynote address April 9 at the
35th Space Symposium in Colorado, our administrator,

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Jim Bridenstine, discussed how NASA plans
to put humans on the Moon within the next

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five years.

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“The first phase is speed.

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Those things that we were going to invest
in, in 2025, 2026, 2027 – we’re going

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to move them up.

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We need to get EM-1 off the ground in 2020
– that’s going to be a test of an uncrewed

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Orion crew capsule with the European Service
Module around the Moon.”

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Following that and a successful EM-2 flight
test with a crew, we’ll need the power,

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propulsion and habitation that the Gateway
will provide in lunar orbit.

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“The Gateway is our ability to go the Moon
fast, for sure.

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Because of the power and propulsion element
of the Gateway we have more access to more

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parts of the Moon than ever before.”

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Which will also give us access to vital resources
needed to live and work on the Moon for extended

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periods of time.

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“Why is that so important?

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The Moon is a proving ground.

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It’s the best place for us to live and work
on another world so that we can ultimately

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go to Mars.

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Know this: the new direction of putting humans
on the Moon in 2024, is not an America alone

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effort.

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We need all of our international partners.

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Our agency is up for it.”

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On April 8, our Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques
of the Canadian Space Agency, conducted a

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six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk outside the
International Space Station – the third

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spacewalk in just under a month on the station.

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The pair completed work to provide backup
power to the Canadarm2 robotic arm, expand

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wireless communications coverage, enhance
computer network capability, and prepare the

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station for future battery upgrade operations.

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A black hole and its shadow have been captured
in an image for the first time.

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It was captured by a massive network of radio
telescopes around the world – known as the

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Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT – that works
together as one very large instrument.

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The image shows the supermassive black hole
at the center of the elliptical galaxy M87

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– about 55 million light years away from
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Several NASA spacecraft also observed the
black hole, and though they did not directly

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trace out the historic image, data from those
observations were used to complement the EHT

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findings.

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Results from our landmark Twins Study, which
took place from 2015-2016, were published

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April 11 in Science.

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Retired astronauts and twins Mark and Scott
Kelly participated in the investigation during

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Scott’s final spaceflight – a nearly year-long
mission aboard the International Space Station

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– while his brother was on Earth.

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Key results from the study will help better
understand how to maintain crew health during

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human exploration to the Moon and Mars.

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For more information visit: nasa.gov/twins-study.

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The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame inducted its
two newest members during an April 6 ceremony

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at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
in Florida.

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Janet Kavandi, currently director of our Glenn
Research Center, is a veteran of three space

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shuttle missions and has logged more than
33 days in space.

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James Buchli has four space flights to his
credit during which he traveled more than

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7 million miles.

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He also served as deputy chief of the Astronaut
Office from March 1989 until May 1992.

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These inductions bring the total number of
hall of fame space explorers to 99.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …