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setting a bold goal in human space

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exploration with the artemis program to

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return american astronauts to the moon

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within the next five years

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while celebrating apollo's historic

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first steps onto the moon

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and kicking off the 20th year of humans

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continuously living and working in space

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here's a look back at those things and

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plenty more awesomeness that happened

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this year at nasa

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our plan to return humans to the moon

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with the artemis program was adjusted

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with 2024 now being the new target for

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landing the first woman and next man on

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the lunar surface this is a critical

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capability for not just a sustainable

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lunar return but also an eventual

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journey to mars our commercial lunar

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payload services or clips initiative

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selected commercial moon landers to

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deliver science and technology

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demonstrations to the surface in 2021

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that could pave the way for the arrival

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of astronauts one tech demonstration

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known as viper is a lunar mobile robot

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that will collect data on water ice to

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inform the first global water resource

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maps of the moon we also talked to

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american companies about developing

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reusable lunar landers and systems for

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future human missions to the moon and we

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selected a company to provide power and

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propulsion for our gateway an outpost to

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orbit around the moon from which

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astronauts will shuttle to and from the

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lunar surface and when we do go our

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orion spacecraft its european space

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agency built service module and our rs25

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engines and space launch system rocket

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will get us there

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we made significant progress in 2019

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and what's a next generation mission

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without next generation spacesuits took

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care of that too in 2019 with new

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spacesuits that fit better and provide

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better mobility for astronauts exploring

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the lunar surface

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and from our mars robotic explorers

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for the first time ever our inside

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lander measured and recorded a likely

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our mars helicopter technology was put

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preparation for its launch on the mars

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also taking that ride will be more than

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10 million names of earthlings etched on

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dime-sized microchips installed on the

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it was a milestone year for humans in

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space we began our 20th consecutive year

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with humans aboard the international

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space station and conducted several

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important spacewalks including the first

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ever by an all-woman team of

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spacewalkers a series of complex

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spacewalks to repair a cosmic ray

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detector and an outing to help install a

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new docking adapter to accommodate

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future arrivals of various spacecraft

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including commercial crew spacecraft

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the spacex crew dragon spacecraft made

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the first ever docking to the

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international space station during its

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meanwhile nasa and boeing are learning

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lessons from the uncrewed test flight of

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boeing's cst-100 starliner which

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launched on december 20th but was unable

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five successful commercial cargo

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missions with northrop grumman and

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spacex delivered more than 32 thousand

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pounds of science investigations

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to the station a new policy was

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announced in 2019 making the space

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station available for commercial

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business ventures and results from our

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landmark twins study of astronaut

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brothers mark and scott kelly were

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published data from the study could help

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maintain crew health during exploration

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lots of happenings in our solar system

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and beyond our new horizons spacecraft

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record-breaking flyby of a kuiper belt

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object 4 billion miles from our sun

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we announced a new mission to saturn's

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icy moon titan to search for the

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building blocks of life our sofia

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airborne observatory detected helium

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hydride the first type of molecule to

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ever form in the universe in a planetary

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nebula some 3 light years away from us

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we helped capture the first ever image

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of a black hole in its shadow data from

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our hubble space telescope showed water

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system that resides in the habitable

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researchers hope to further study three

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new worlds discovered by our test

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spacecraft 73 light years from earth a

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nearly earth-sized one next to two

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others known as many neptunes

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the first data shared from super close

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record-breaking flybys of our sun by

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nasa's parker solar probe revealed new

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affect astronauts and technology in

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space take us us away

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and we air launched a mission to help us

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better understand the physical processes

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highlights from the world of space

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technology include the launch of several

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nasa technology demonstrations aboard a

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demonstrations are designed to test less

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toxic fuel for spacecraft new ways to

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navigate in space processes affecting

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space environment around earth and how

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test technologies for use in zero

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cutting edge technology to manufacture

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earthquakes that rattled southern

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the blaze was fueled by nearly 100 mile

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decreasing emissions and noise meanwhile

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our x-59 quiet supersonic technology

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testing of software and imaging

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and there they are the men of apollo 11

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immortalized in bronze our historic

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our celebration of the 50th anniversary

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nasa tv special and a series of other

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events around the country the historic

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the room exactly as it appeared during

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the apollo moon missions and we held a

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ceremony to rename the street in front

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hidden figures way in honor of the women

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the early days of america's space

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program those are some of the highlights

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from 2019 the year at nasa

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happy holidays thanks for watching and

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we look forward to sharing more