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Critical cargo on the next space\h\h

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station resupply mission …
NASA is at a virtual Earth\h\h

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and space science meeting …
And a key piece of hardware\h\h

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installed on the Orion spacecraft … a few of the\h
stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
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NASA partner SpaceX’s 21st commercial resupply\h
services mission to the International Space\h\h

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Station is using the company’s upgraded Dragon\h
spacecraft to deliver supplies and payloads,\h\h

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including the first commercially\h
funded space station airlock,\h\h

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and critical materials for the multitude\h
of science and research investigations\h\h

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that will be conducted by the\h
Expedition 64 and 65 crews.

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At this year’s virtual meeting of\h
the American Geophysical Union,\h\h

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NASA and researchers from around the world\h
are presenting new findings on Earth and space\h\h

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science topics. These include news about the Solar\h
Orbiter mission, findings about environmental\h\h

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trends due to the coronavirus pandemic,\h
an update on Jupiter’s cyclones and more.\h\h

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The virtual meeting runs through Dec. 17.\h
For more details check out nasa.gov/agu.

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The forward bay cover has been installed to\h
the top of the Orion spacecraft for our Artemis\h\h

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I mission, the first uncrewed flight of the\h
spacecraft around the Moon and back. This critical\h\h

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piece of hardware will protect Orion’s crew module\h
as it travels back through Earth’s atmosphere at\h\h

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speeds of more than 25,000 mph. The cover will\h
eventually be jettisoned to allow the three\h\h

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main parachutes to open and slow the capsule down\h
enough for a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

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Meanwhile, the Orion spacecraft Structural Test\h
Article is back at our Langley Research Center in\h\h

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preparation for another series of water impact\h
tests scheduled for early next year. Data from\h\h

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these tests will be used for final computer\h
modeling of the Orion capsule for Artemis II,\h\h

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the program’s first mission with astronauts\h
around the Moon and back. Artemis II will also\h\h

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pave the way to land the first woman and next\h
man on the Moon by 2024 during Artemis III.

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Our VIPER robot will be the first off-world\h
rover to have its brains split in two,\h\h

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effectively using on-board flight software and\h
software running from mission control on Earth,\h\h

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to help it search for water\h
ice on the surface of the Moon.\h\h

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Teams at our Ames Research Center recently\h
began putting the software through its paces\h\h

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using an engineering prototype of the\h
rover. VIPER is planned for delivery to\h\h

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the Moon as early as December 2022 through our\h
Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.

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Thanks to the Chandra X-ray\h
Center’s data sonification project,\h\h

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you can now see and listen to images\h
of some familiar cosmic objects.

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Data sonification takes information\h
collected by telescopes and converts it\h\h

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into sounds – with the data, in some cases,\h
being heard as various musical instruments\h\h

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and/or as sounds within\h
different audio frequencies.\h\h

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Imagery data from NASA's Chandra X-ray\h
Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope,\h\h

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and Spitzer Space Telescope are featured. You\h
can check it out at, go.nasa.gov/cosmicsounds.