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Important cargo headed to the space station
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Installing the thrust behind our return to
the Moon …

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And a devastating wildfire seen from space…
a few of the stories to tell you about – This

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Week at NASA!\h
On Nov. 2, our commercial partner Northrop

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Grumman launched its Cygnus cargo spacecraft
from our Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia

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with about 8,200 pounds of research, crew
supplies, and hardware for the crew aboard

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the International Space Station. The cargo
includes a special vest designed to protect

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astronauts from radiation caused by unpredictable
solar particle events. Space station astronauts

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will wear the vest and provide input that
could be used to improve design and use of

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the vest to protect crew members on future
missions to the Moon and Mars. The Cygnus

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spacecraft is named after late Apollo and
Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, who became the

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fourth human to walk on the Moon on Apollo
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Five weeks after delivering more than four
tons of supplies, scientific experiments,

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and hardware to the International Space Station,
Japan’s HTV-8 cargo spacecraft left the

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station on Nov. 1. The cargo delivered by
HTV-8 included new lithium-ion batteries to

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upgrade the older nickel-hydrogen batteries
that store power generated by the station’s

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solar arrays.\h\h
Engineers and technicians at NASA’s Michoud

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Assembly Facility in New Orleans are in the
process of outfitting the core stage of our

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Space Launch System, or SLS rocket with the
RS-25 engines that will help SLS power the

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first Artemis mission to the Moon.\hThe completed
core stage with all four engines attached

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will be the largest rocket stage NASA has
built since the Saturn V stages for the Apollo

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Program.\h\h
Our Earth-observing Terra satellite captured

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images of California’s devastating Kincade
Fire as it burned in Sonoma County – north

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of San Francisco. Smoke plumes from the blaze,
which started Oct. 23, can be seen cascading

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down the California coast. Dry conditions
and fierce, nearly 100 mile per hour winds

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known as Diablo winds, have helped the fire
spread quickly and made it extremely difficult

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to stop.\h\h
And a mix of creativity and creepiness gave

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Halloween a bit of a cosmic twist at NASA.
Examples of our Halloween spirit include this

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new image from our Hubble Space Telescope.
It looks like a pair of glaring eyes belonging

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to a spooky face in space, but is actually
a head-on collision between two galaxies just

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over 700 million light-years from Earth. Meanwhile
our Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL released

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two new vintage horror movie posters as part
of a Galaxy of Horrors series highlighting

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some truly terrifying exoplanets, or planets
outside our solar system. How’s this for

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scary? One of these exoplanets has an atmosphere
full of silicates — the key component in

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sand and glass — that are possibly being
whipped around in winds blowing at more than

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5,400 miles per hour. Download the posters
and learn about other inhospitable exoplanets

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atgo.nasa.gov/galaxyofhorrors. And a pumpkin
carving contest at JPL, now in its ninth year,

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included a number of unique out of this world
ideas and designs truly reflective of what