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Confirming the nomination of\h
NASA’s next administrator …
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An update on a commercial crew mission …
And remembering a spaceflight pioneer … a\h\h

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few of the stories to tell you\h
about – This Week at NASA!
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Former Senator Bill Nelson has been confirmed\h
by the U.S. Senate to be the 14th Administrator\h\h

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of NASA. President Biden nominated Nelson\h
for the administrator’s post on April 19.\h\h

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In 1986, while serving as the chair\h
of the House space subcommittee,\h\h

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Nelson flew aboard the space shuttle\h
Columbia on the STS-61C mission.
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As of Friday, April 30, mission managers for\h
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International\h\h

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Space Station were watching the weather forecast\h
and targeting an early Sunday morning splashdown\h\h

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off the coast of Florida. Crew-1 is the first\h
of six crewed missions NASA and SpaceX will fly\h\h

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as part of our Commercial Crew Program, which\h
has worked with the U.S. aerospace industry\h\h

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to return launches of astronauts on American\h
rockets and spacecraft from American soil.
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NASA is remembering former astronaut Michael\h
Collins, who passed away April 28. He served as\h\h

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the command module pilot on Apollo 11 – remaining\h
in orbit while crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz\h\h

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Aldrin took the first human steps on the lunar\h
surface. Before that, he flew aboard Gemini X,\h\h

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the eighth mission in a series of spaceflights\h
between the Mercury and Apollo programs\h\h

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that helped pave the way for the Moon landings.\h
In the years following his spaceflights,\h\h

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Collins often spoke about the profound\h
impact seeing Earth from space had on him.
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“Well, I think the main thing about flying in\h
space and then looking back and seeing a tiny\h\h

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little fragile blue and white globe, and it\h
makes you think about our Earthly problems with\h\h

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a slightly different perspective. We have to do\h
a better job of taking care of what we have, we\h\h

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have to do a better job of getting along with each\h
other, we have to do a better job of protecting,\h\h

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nurturing this tiny, little, fragile planet.”
In a statement on the passing of Collins,\h\h

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acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk\h
said, “His legacy will always be as one\h\h

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of the leaders who took America's first\h
steps into the cosmos. And his spirit\h\h

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will go with us as we venture toward farther\h
horizons.” Michael Collins was 90 years old.
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Our Ingenuity Helicopter met all of its mission\h
objectives with its third flight on Mars.\h\h

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During a virtual briefing on April 30,\h
the Ingenuity team discussed plans to\h\h

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push the limits of the rotorcraft for\h
the remainder of its flight campaign.
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“With this new phase, we will now concentrate\h
on utility in aerial platform and work on\h\h

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operational products; such as aerial\h
observation of specific science targets, or\h\h

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looking at context features from, you know,\h
places that are not accessible by rovers.”
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Ingenuity is a technology demonstration that\h
landed on Mars Feb. 18 with our Perseverance\h\h

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rover to perform a series of test flights\h
over a 30-Martian-day experimental window.\h\h

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The rotorcraft became the first aircraft\h
to successfully complete powered controlled\h\h

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flight on another world on April 19.
On April 27, the core stage for the Space\h\h

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Launch System or SLS rocket that will send\h
our uncrewed Artemis I mission to the Moon,\h\h

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arrived at our Kennedy Space Center in Florida,\h
aboard the agency’s Pegasus barge. The core stage\h\h

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is the final piece of Artemis hardware to arrive\h
at the spaceport and will be integrated atop the\h\h

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mobile launcher, with the completed stack of solid\h
rocket boosters ahead of the Artemis I launch.
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Engineers at our Stennis Space Center conducted\h
a long-duration RS-25 engine test on April 28,\h\h

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continuing the latest seven-part test series to\h
support development and production of the engines\h\h

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for use on future missions with our Space Launch\h
System rocket, including missions that will land\h\h

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the first woman and person of color on the surface\h
of the Moon, as part of our Artemis program.