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Highlighting our upcoming launch of astronauts
from Florida …

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Some news about our Moon to Mars effort …

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And our Mars helicopter has a new name … a
few of the stories to tell you about – This

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Week at NASA!

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May 27 is the date NASA and SpaceX are targeting
for the return of human spaceflight launches

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from American soil.

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The historic mission known as Demo-2, which
will send our Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley

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to the International Space Station, was highlighted
during a series of news conferences on May

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1.

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“Launching again on an American rocket from
the Florida coast, and generations of people

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who maybe didn’t get a chance to see a space
shuttle launch, getting a chance again to

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see human spaceflight in our own back yard,
if you will is pretty exciting to be a part

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of.”

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“It’s been a long eight-and-a-half or
nine years in a lot of ways for the folks

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that have worked on this program, and then
the fact that we didn’t have capability

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to go to space station from the United States,
and so once again, I think Bob and I are very

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humbled to be in this position in order to
do that soon.”

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It will be the first flight test of SpaceX’s
Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts

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aboard.

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This past week, we announced that three U.S.
companies – SpaceX, Dynetics, and Blue Origin

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– have been selected to develop modern human
landing systems for our Artemis program.

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Artemis will carry the first woman and next
man to the surface of the Moon by 2024, and

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develop sustainable lunar exploration.

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We will use the experience gained on and around
the Moon to prepare for eventual human exploration

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of Mars.

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The helicopter for our Mars 2020 Perseverance
rover mission has a new name – Ingenuity.

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Alabama high school student Vaneeza Rupani
submitted the name as part of NASA’s "Name

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the Rover" essay contest.

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Her winning essay was among 28,000 submitted
from every U.S. state and territory.

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Ingenuity is an experimental aircraft that
could help add an aerial component to future

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Mars exploration missions.

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A large near-Earth asteroid, called 1998 OR2,
safely passed by Earth April 29, giving astronomers

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an opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide
object in great detail.

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When it passed Earth, 1998 OR2 was more than
16 times farther away from us than our Moon.

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Our Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program discovered
the asteroid in July 1998, and astronomers

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have been tracking it for the past two decades.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …