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Space Station crew returns safely to Earth
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Practice for our asteroid sample return mission
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And a new discovery from old data … a few
of the stories to tell you about – This

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Week at NASA!

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On April 17, our Andrew Morgan, Jessica Meir,
and Oleg Skripochka, of the Russian space

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agency Roscosmos, said goodbye to the International
Space Station’s Expedition 63 crew, including

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our Chris Cassidy.

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Several hours later Morgan, Meir, and Skripochka
landed safely in Kazakhstan.

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Morgan spent nine months on the station while
Meir was onboard for about six months.

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During that time, she conducted the first
three all-woman spacewalks with NASA’s Christina

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Koch.

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On April 14, we conducted the first practice
run with our OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in preparation

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for its attempt this August to collect a sample
from asteroid Bennu, and safely return that

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sample to Earth.

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The rehearsal, known as “Checkpoint,”
placed the spacecraft the closest it has ever

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been to Bennu.

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This is NASA’s first-ever sample return
mission to an asteroid.

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Old data from our Kepler space telescope,
which was retired in 2018, has led to the

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discovery of an Earth-size exoplanet in its
star's habitable zone, about 300 light years

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from Earth.

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Out of all the exoplanets found by Kepler,
this distant world, called Kepler-1649c, is

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most similar to Earth in size and estimated
temperature.

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The 50th anniversary of Earth Day is April
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To help observe the anniversary virtually,
in this new world of social distancing, we

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have put together new and curated online videos,
activities, and other resources at nasa.gov/earthday.

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Some of the material is available in both
English and Spanish.

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We also encourage you to use the hashtag #EarthDayAtHome
to share images showing what you did to observe

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Earth Day.

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NASA is looking for help from video gamers
and citizen scientists to map coral reefs

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around the world.

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Participants will play a video game to identify
and classify corals while virtually traveling

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in an ocean vessel.

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The game, called NeMO-Net, which is available
for iOS devices and Mac computers, uses 3D

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images of the ocean floor, corals, algae and
seagrass taken by specialized NASA instruments

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mounted on drones or aircraft.

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Data from NeMO-Net will eventually enable
NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer to map out

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the world's corals at an unprecedented resolution.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …