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An international agreement\h
to collaborate on Artemis …
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An intriguing discovery on the Moon …
And an update on OSIRIS-REx … a few\h\h

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of the stories to tell you\h
about – This Week at NASA!
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On Oct. 27, NASA and ESA (European Space\h
Agency) finalized an agreement to collaborate\h\h

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on the Gateway for our Artemis program. Under\h
the agreement, ESA will contribute habitation\h\h

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and refueling modules, lunar communications,\h
and other key technologies. This is part of\h\h

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our effort to collaborate with international\h
partners for sustainable lunar exploration and\h\h

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technology needed to send humans to Mars. 
The SOFIA flying observatory has confirmed,\h\h

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for the first time, water molecules\h
on the sunlit surface of the Moon.\h\h

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This indicates that water may be distributed more\h
widely across the lunar surface; not just in cold,\h\h

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shadowed regions of the Moon. NASA is looking\h
to learn as much as possible about the presence\h\h

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of water on the Moon ahead of sending the first\h
woman and next man to the lunar surface in 2024.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected so much\h
sample material from asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20\h\h

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that the overfilled collection unit could not hold\h
it all. So mission managers made the call to stow\h\h

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the sample days earlier than planned – to minimize\h
losing any more material. The stowage process\h\h

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safely seals the material in a capsule that\h
will transport it back to Earth for study.
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NASA and SpaceX now are targeting Saturday, Nov.\h
14, at 7:49 p.m. EST, for the launch of Crew-1,\h\h

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the first crew rotation mission to the\h
International Space Station as part of\h\h

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our Commercial Crew Program. Crew-1 will\h
increase the station’s regular crew size\h\h

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from six to seven astronauts, adding to the\h
amount of crew time available for research.

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Cameras outside the International Space\h
Station captured views of Hurricane Zeta\h\h

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on the afternoon of Oct. 28 in the Gulf of\h
Mexico. Zeta made landfall later the same day\h\h

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near New Orleans as a Category 2 storm. Our\h
Michoud Assembly Facility and Stennis Space\h\h

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Center were affected by the storm and are both\h
assessing any impacts to operational status.

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Nov. 2, marks 20 years that humans have\h
lived and worked continuously aboard the\h\h

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International Space Station. Members\h
of the station’s first resident crew,\h\h

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including former NASA astronaut Bill\h
Shepherd, shared some thoughts about\h\h

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the importance of the orbital outpost\h
during an Oct. 29 panel discussion.

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“Space station, particularly Expedition One,\h\h

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set the tone for how crews needed to operate\h
in space. I think it’s the blueprint for larger\h\h

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expeditions and going certainly to the Moon and\h
probably beyond that to Mars and elsewhere.”

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241 people from 19 countries have visited this\h
unique microgravity laboratory that has hosted\h\h

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over 3,000 investigations from people\h
in more than 100 countries and areas.
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NASA has identified a molecule in the atmosphere\h
of Saturn’s largest moon Titan that has never\h\h

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been detected in any other atmosphere.\h
Cyclopropenylidene is a simple carbon-based\h\h

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molecule scientists say may be a precursor to\h
more complex compounds that could form or feed\h\h

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possible life on Titan. Our Dragonfly mission\h
is targeted for launch to Titan in 2027.
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Just in time for Halloween – our latest Galaxy\h
of Horrors posters, featuring a dead galaxy,\h\h

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an explosive gamma ray burst caused by colliding\h
stellar corpses, and the ever-elusive dark matter.\h\h

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You can download the posters for free, in English\h
and Spanish, at exoplanets.nasa.gov/galaxy.
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