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A new name for our next Mars rover …

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A new space station resupply mission …

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And how you can join the Artemis Generation
… a few of the stories to tell you about

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– This Week at NASA!

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From a nationwide naming contest that saw
more than 28,000 student essay entries, the

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new name of our next Mars rover is …

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“Perseverance … (applause)”

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The new name for the rover formerly known
as Mars 2020 was announced during a live event

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on March 5 from the Fairfax County, Virginia
school of the student who submitted the winning

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entry.

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“If rovers are to be the qualities of us
as a race, we missed the most important thing:

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perseverance.

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We are a species of explorers and we will
meet many setbacks on the way to Mars.

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We, not as a nation, but as humans will not
give up.

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The human race will always persevere into
the future.”

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The rover recently arrived at our Kennedy
Space Center in Florida ahead of its launch

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to the Red Planet this summer.

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On March 6, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched
from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida,

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packed with supplies and payloads for the
crew aboard the International Space Station.

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The cargo delivery includes critical materials
for science and research investigations on

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the station.

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We’re now accepting applications for our
next group of Artemis Generation astronaut

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candidates.

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But even if you can’t be an astronaut, we
can still use your support.

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We invite you to join the Artemis effort by
printing your very own Artemis Generation

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Certificate at go.nasa.gov/joinartemis.

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It is our way of taking you with us on humanity’s
greatest journey to explore our universe.

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While making observations off the edge of
asteroid Bennu, a student-built spectrometer

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onboard our OSIRIS-REx spacecraft unexpectedly
detected X-ray activity 30 thousand light

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years in the distance.

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It turned out to be a newly flaring black
hole that was discovered a week earlier by

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a telescope on the International Space Station.

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The glimpse of the X-ray event by OSIRIS-REx
marks the first time such an outburst has

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been detected from interplanetary space.

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A team from our Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in Pasadena, California was a first-place

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winner in a recent challenge to use cutting-edge
technology to enable robots to autonomously

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navigate extreme underground environments.

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We could one day use robots with this technology
to map out caves on the Moon or Mars, in preparation

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for the arrival of human explorers.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …