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A commercial resupply mission
 to the space station honoring a space

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flight icon and an out of this world
 experience right here on Earth.

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A few of the stories
 to tell you about this week at Macer.

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Main engine start.

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Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft
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Station on August 10th from our Wallops
 flight facility in Virginia,

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loaded with more than 800 pounds
 of research supplies and hardware.

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Two days later, the Cygnus named in
 honor of the late Ellison Onizuka,

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NASA's first Asian-American astronaut,
 arrived at the station.

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This is the company's 16th

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commercial resupply services
 mission to the space station for NASA.

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On August 11th hour, Glenn Research
 Center held a dedication ceremony

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for the renaming of NASA's Plum Brook
 Station in Sandusky, Ohio, to the Neil A.

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Armstrong Test Facility.

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The event was led
 by our administrator, Bill Nelson,

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and featured remarks
 by several guest speakers.

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It's our family's hope
 that the Neil Armstrong facility

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will continue to vault us forward
 for faster and safer aerospace transport,

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and that this new name will be a beacon
 for the best, the brightest,

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and perhaps most importantly,
 the most determined.

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The Armstrong test facility houses
 the world's largest and most powerful

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aerospace testing facilities,
 and it's the only place in the world

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that can test a full sized spacecraft
 for the extreme conditions

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of launch and space flight.

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NASA is looking for crew members
 for the first in a series

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of one year analog missions
 in a 3D printed habitat

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at our Johnson Space Center,
 designed to simulate life

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on a distant world
 set to begin in fall 2022.

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The series of missions known as Crew
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could help develop methods
 and technologies to prevent and resolve

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potential problems on future
 human missions to the moon and Mars.

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Learn more about this and other NASA
 analog missions at NASA.gov/analogs.

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Precision tracking
 data captured by NASA's OSIRIS-REx

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spacecraft has helped researchers pinpoint
 the future orbits of asteroid Bennu,

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which is expected to make a very close
 approach to Earth in 2135

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with the ability to better understand
 the movements of Bennu.

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Researchers believe the chances of it
 hitting Earth are very low.

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Through the year 2300, this development
 has also improved our ability

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to predict the orbits
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that are potential impact
 hazards to Earth.

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A new online NASA
 visualization tool can show you

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what sea levels will look like anywhere
 in the world in the coming decades.

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The tool hosted on NASA's sea level
 portal makes extensive data on future sea

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level rise from the Intergovernmental
 Panel on Climate Change,

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or IPCC easily accessible.

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It can deliver a detailed report
 for a location based on the most

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updated physical understanding
 of the climate system and climate change.

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For more details, go to sealevel.nasa.gov.

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NASA GLOBE CLOUD GAZE is
 one of the agency's many citizen science

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projects that allow public volunteers
 to act as citizen scientists

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to help make important
 scientific discoveries.

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globe cloud gaze uses detailed information

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from citizen science,
 observations of clouds or dust storms

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that NASA's scientists can compare
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In the process of studying our atmosphere,

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find out more at science
 that Nasa.gov/citizen science.

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That's what's out this week at Macer.