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Vice President Pence visits our Langley Research
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Science results related to water on Jupiter
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And studying the darkest areas of the Moon
… a few of the stories to tell you about

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– This Week at NASA!

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Vice President Mike Pence and our Administrator
Jim Bridenstine, visited our Langley Research

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Center in Virginia on Feb. 19, to highlight
work being done at Langley in support of our

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Artemis program, which plans to return astronauts
to the surface of the Moon.

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“In order to succeed we are going to continue
to focus on the mission over the means.

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We want to challenge each one of you here
at Langley.

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Consider every available option and platform
to meet our goals.”

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In honor of Black History Month the Vice President
recognized the contributions of former Langley

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mathematician Katherine Johnson and her family,
as well as others in the audience and around

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the agency.

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The first science results from our Juno mission’s
investigation into the amount of water in

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Jupiter’s atmosphere estimate that, at the
equator, water makes up about 0.25% of the

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molecules — almost three times that of the
Sun.

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These are also the first findings on Jupiter’s
abundance of water since our 1995 Galileo

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mission suggested Jupiter might be extremely
dry compared to the Sun – a suggestion based

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not on liquid water, but on the presence of
water’s molecular components in the Sun.

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NASA has awarded nearly $1 million to eight
university teams through a competitive student

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challenge to build sample lunar payloads that
demonstrate innovative ways to study permanently-shadowed

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areas of the Moon.

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Technologies designed to collect data, generate
wireless power for future infrastructure,

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and enable autonomous mobility in these extreme
environments could be used in preparation

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for landing the first woman and next man on
the Moon in 2024 through our Artemis program.

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This past week we announced that more than
100 teams from around the world are expected

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to participate in our Human Exploration Rover
Challenge, April 17-18 near our Marshall Space

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Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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The annual event features student-built, human-powered
rovers navigating a course simulating terrain

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found on the Moon and Mars, as well as other
planets, moons and asteroids.

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On Feb. 18 Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo
spacecraft arrived at the International Space

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Station loaded with more than 7,500 pounds
of research and supplies for the crew onboard

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the station.

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Northrop Grumman launched the Cygnus three
days earlier from our Wallops Flight Facility

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in Virginia.

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This is the company’s 13th commercial resupply
services mission for NASA.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …