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You, plus “NASA at Home” equals a universe
of possibilities …

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The first delivery service selected for our
lunar Gateway …

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And an astronaut added to a future Commercial
Crew flight … a few of the stories to tell

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you about – This Week at NASA!

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Thanks to your suggestions, our new NASA at
Home online resource offers even more content

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and possibilities for you to stay engaged
and explore the universe around us – all

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from home to facilitate social distancing.

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You asked us to add more student activities,
do-it-yourself projects, virtual tours, and

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amazing space images to NASA at Home.

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All of those things have indeed been added
to the YouTube content, e-books, podcasts

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and other material already included as part
of the resource.

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Check it out for yourself at nasa.gov/nasaathome.

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We’ve selected SpaceX to be the first U.S.
commercial provider contracted to deliver

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critical pressurized and unpressurized cargo,
experiments and other supplies to the agency’s

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Gateway in lunar orbit.

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This is a significant step forward for NASA’s
Artemis program that will land the first woman

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and next man on the Moon by 2024.

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This past week, NASA astronaut Shannon Walker
was assigned to the first operational crewed

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flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft
to the International Space Station.

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She will join NASA’s Michael Hopkins and
Victor Glover Jr., as well as Japan’s Soichi

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Noguchi on the mission.

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It will be the first in a series of regular,
rotational flights to the station following

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the spacecraft’s successful Demo-2 test
flight with astronauts, which is targeted

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for mid-to-late May, as part of NASA’s Commercial
Crew Program.

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We selected a new mission, called the Sun
Radio Interferometer Space Experiment or SunRISE,

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to study giant space weather storms generated
by our Sun.

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The mission will improve our understanding
of how our solar system works, and could also

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help protect astronauts from the effects of
radiation while traveling on deep space missions

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to the Moon and Mars.

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SunRISE is being targeted for launch no earlier
than July 2023.

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The 10,932,295 names submitted as part of
our "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign are

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now aboard our Perseverance Mars rover and
ready for the trip to the Red Planet.

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The names were stenciled by electron beam
onto three fingernail-sized silicon chips,

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along with the essays of the 155 finalists
in NASA's "Name the Rover" contest.

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The chips were then attached to an aluminum
plate on the rover.

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Scheduled to launch this summer, Perseverance
will land at Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …