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A safe splashdown for an historic test flight
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A major milestone for a future mission …

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And remembering a champion for Earth Science
… a few of the stories to tell you about

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– This Week at NASA!

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“Splashdown!

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As you can see on your screen, we have visual
confirmation for splashdown!”

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On Aug. 2, the SpaceX Endeavour Crew Dragon
spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico,

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safely returning our Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken
from an historic test mission to the International

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Space Station, and marking a new era in human
spaceflight.

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“This is really an amazing day, but we also
need to remember that this is just the beginning.

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The future is very bright, but it’s going
to require these public/private partnerships

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which we have now proven can be very, very
successful.”

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“We are starting the journey of bringing
people regularly to and from low-Earth orbit

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and on to the Moon and then ultimately on
to Mars.”

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Behnken and Hurley’s 62-day stay onboard
the space station was very busy.

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They spent more than 100 hours working with
science investigations, and participated in

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four spacewalks, which saw Behnken and fellow
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy tie the record

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for most spacewalks by a U.S. astronaut.

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“To see those two work out on the International
Space Station, you’re not going to see anything

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like that again.

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It was just amazing to be part of that.”

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The splashdown of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission
was the first with American astronauts since

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the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project 45 years ago.

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Review of the mission and spacecraft could
pave the way for NASA to certify SpaceX’s

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systems for regular crewed flights to the
space station, including Crew-1, the first

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rotational mission later this year.

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“I think this kind of comes full circle.

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It took years to get here; we brought the
capability back to America, and we came home

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safely to our families.

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And it took a lot of people a lot of time
to make that happen.”

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Our Lucy mission has been cleared to proceed
with assembly and testing in preparation for

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its targeted launch in 2021.

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Lucy will be the first mission to study Jupiter’s
Trojan asteroids.

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For more, go to: nasa.gov/lucy.

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NASA joins the entire science community in
mourning the loss of Mike Freilich, former

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director of the agency’s Earth Science Division.

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In a statement, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine
noted that Freilich’s deep expertise and

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innate love of science helped us expand the
ways we observe our home planet.

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Earlier this year NASA joined several agencies
and international partners to rename a mission

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after him.

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The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich mission will
gather critical information about the oceans

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for which he had such an abiding passion.

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This image was taken by our Terra satellite
on Aug. 3, about 9 hours and 40 minutes before

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the eye of Hurricane Isaias made landfall
in southern North Carolina, packing maximum

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sustained winds of 85 mph.

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NASA satellites provided forecasters with
rainfall rates, cloud top temperatures, and

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other data as the huge storm made its way
up the U.S. East Coast.

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An instrument aboard the International Space
Station that measures the temperature of plants

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as they run out of water, produced this temperature
map showing the Apple wildfire burning just

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east of Los Angeles.

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The fire had consumed about 4,000 acres at
the time the image was captured.

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In just two days, that number grew to more
than 26,000 acres.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …