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A boost in the right direction for Artemis
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Closing in on the launch of our next Mars
rover …

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And the latest progress in our quest for quiet
supersonic flight … a few of the stories

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to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

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The rocket boosters that will help power our
first Artemis flight test were transported

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in segments from Northrop Grumman’s manufacturing
facility in Promontory, Utah to our Kennedy

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Space Center in Florida.

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Crews will now work to assemble and eventually
integrate the boosters with our Space Launch

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System or SLS rocket, which will send an uncrewed
Orion spacecraft around the Moon on this mission,

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known as Artemis I.

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It is the first in a series of increasingly
complex missions to test Orion and SLS as

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an integrated system to send the first woman
and next man to the Moon by 2024.

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The launch window for our Mars 2020 Perseverance
rover mission opens on July 20.

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The mission marks humanity's first step in
returning samples from another planet to Earth.

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It will also search for signs of past microbial
life on Mars, characterize the planet's climate

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and geology, and pave the way for human exploration
of the Red Planet.

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“We’re moving forward rapidly with these
very important Mars robotic precursor missions

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so that one day when we send humans to Mars,
we’re going to know where to go to get the

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absolute best science and data that we can
get.”

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The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will land
at Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

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The wing and cockpit sections of our X-59
Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) are coming

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together at a Lockheed Martin assembly plant
in southern California.

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When complete, the X-59 will be put through
a series of ground and flight tests to ensure

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its air worthiness, and its ability to create
a low-noise sonic boom that can barely be

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heard – if at all – by people on the ground.

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This recently released mosaic of Nightingale,
the primary sample site on asteroid Bennu

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for our OSIRIS-REx mission, is comprised of
345 images.

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The images were captured by the spacecraft
during a reconnaissance pass just 820 feet

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above the site in early March.

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OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to make its first
sample collection attempt at Nightingale on

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Oct. 20.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …