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A step toward sustainable lunar exploration
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Looking for science and tech delivery to the
Moon …

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And gearing up for some extreme conditions
… a few of the stories to tell you about

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– This Week at NASA!

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We’re asking commercial companies to provide
proposals for collecting of space resources

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in support of the Artemis program.

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The requirements -- a company has to collect
a small amount of Moon “dirt” from the

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lunar surface, provide imagery and data to
NASA, and conduct an “in-place” transfer

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of ownership of the material to NASA.

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We also asked our Commercial Lunar Payload
Services partners for bids to fly a suite

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of science and technology payloads to the
Moon in 2022 that will help lay the foundation

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for human missions to the lunar surface.

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Next-generation lunar science and technology
is a main objective for returning to the Moon

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and preparing for Mars.

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A NASA project is developing special gears
able to withstand extremely cold temperatures

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on missions to the Moon and other destinations
in our solar system.

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The gears are housed inside a “metallic
glass” material able to survive the extreme

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cold without needing the usual heating.

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As California experiences one of the worst
wildfire seasons on record, NASA’s Earth-observing

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instruments on spacecraft, satellites and
aircraft are providing data to agencies responding

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to the emergency, including public health
officials monitoring diminished air quality

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and visibility.

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The fires have burned more than 300,000 acres
since Aug. 16.

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This animation from our OSIRIS-REx mission
shows the trajectories of particles emitted

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from the surface of asteroid Bennu during
several months in 2019.

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Ongoing examination of Bennu and a sample
of the asteroid expected to be returned to

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Earth, could help the O-REx team learn exactly
why this phenomenon is occurring.

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The spacecraft is set to “touch” Bennu
and collect that sample on Oct. 20.

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Just in time for the new school year, the
Celebrating Station Science online resource

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is available to connect students and educators
to 20 years of space station experiments and

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research.

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Each month will have lesson plans, activities,
information on space station science, and

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other resources for the Artemis Generation
of explorers.

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Check it out at nasa.gov/stem/iss20.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …