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A power spacewalk outside the space station
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Honoring a former ‘Hidden Figure’ …

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And a “way cool” find of a hot Jupiter
… a few of the stories to tell you about

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– This Week at NASA!

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“I am clear, tether’s clear.

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Bob can you double check me?

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I can verify you’re clear.”

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On June 26, our Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken
worked outside the International Space Station

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to replace aging nickel-hydrogen batteries
in one of the station’s power channels with

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new lithium-ion batteries.

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“Alright Bob – finally heading your way.

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Sounds good!”

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The battery replacement work is the culmination
of power upgrade spacewalks that began in

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January 2017.

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On June 24, our Administrator Jim Bridenstine
announced that our headquarters building in

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Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary
W. Jackson, the first African American female

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engineer at NASA.

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Jackson was part of a group of very important
women whose math and scientific acumen helped

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to safely get American astronauts to space
and back.

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These women were portrayed in the book “Hidden
Figures” and popular movie of the same name.

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Our planet-hunting TESS spacecraft and data
from our recently retired Spitzer Space Telescope,

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helped identify the youngest known hot Jupiter
– a type of gas-dominated exoplanet that

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orbits extremely close to its parent star.

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The planet, located about 490 light-years
from Earth, is believed to be less than 17

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million years old and could teach us more
about how planets form throughout the universe.

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The moon in the binary near-Earth asteroid
system, Didymos that was previously known

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as Didymos B, has been officially named Dimorphos.

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In 2022, it will be the target of our Double
Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first

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full-scale demonstration of an asteroid deflection
technology for planetary defense.

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We’ve started a new effort to enable astronauts,
principal investigators and other NASA personnel

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to fly on future commercial suborbital spaceflights.

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These flights are anticipated to be more accessible,
affordable, and available than missions to

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the International Space Station and could
provide additional commercial human spaceflights

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for research, training, and testing activities.

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Our Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been
watching the Sun for over a decade.

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This 10-year timelapse compresses each day
into a second, showing the rise and fall in

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solar activity and notable events like transiting
planets and eruptions.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …