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Counting down to the return of human spaceflight
from Florida …

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A successful space station resupply mission
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And a virtual tool to help develop lunar landers
… a few of the stories to tell you about

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- This Week at NASA!

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We recently conducted a full launch to docking
simulation with SpaceX in preparation for

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the upcoming flight to the International Space
Station of our Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken

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aboard the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft.

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The mission, known as Demo-2, will mark the
first launch of NASA astronauts from America

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since we retired the space shuttle.

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NASA and SpaceX are targeting May 27 for the
launch of the mission, from historic Launch

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Complex 39A at our Kennedy Space Center in
Florida.

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On May 11 Northrop Grumman's unpiloted Cygnus
cargo spacecraft left the International Space

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Station - nearly three months after delivering
about 7,500 pounds of supplies and scientific

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experiments to support dozens of new and existing
investigations on the orbital outpost.

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This was Northrop Grumman's 13th cargo flight
to the space station.

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A new simulator called the Lunar Flight Deck
at our Langley Research Center in Hampton,

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Virginia is being used to help develop the
Human Landing System for our Artemis program

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that will land the first woman and the next
man on the Moon.

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Astronauts brought in to "fly" detailed simulations
with various lunar landers provide feedback

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that helps researchers advance the technologies
used in the cockpits.

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The Lunar Flight Deck can also be reconfigured
to help analyze landing human missions on

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Mars.

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Natural disasters, like wildfires and hurricanes,
can lead to many lives lost and billions of

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dollars in costs.

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But a new project called Scalable Traffic
Management for Emergency Response Operations,

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or STEReO is looking at how drones might be
used to help emergency responders more safely

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and efficiently carry out operations.

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While STEReO is led by our Ames Research Center
in California's Silicon Valley, other federal,

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state and local government agencies, first
responders, and private companies are also

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involved in the project.

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That's what's up this week @NASA …