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An historic milestone for Perseverance 
A busy week of activity at the\h\h

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space station …
And a target launch\h\h

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date for the Webb Space Telescope … a few of the\h
stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
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Our Perseverance rover completed the collection\h
of its first two samples of Martian rock. Mission\h\h

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controllers at our Jet Propulsion Laboratory\h
received data confirming the historic milestone.\h\h

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The core samples were collected from\h
a rock located in Jezero Crater.

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“I wanted to be a part of this moment;\h
to be able to achieve something that\h\h

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has never, ever been done before. And, while\h
it definitely was a very long time waiting,\h\h

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I think all of us can say\h
that it feels fantastic.”

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“Perseverance is playing an incredibly\h
important role in our understanding of Mars\h\h

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and demonstrating key technologies as we take\h
our next steps in exploring the solar system.”

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The cored rock material is sealed in airtight\h
titanium sample tubes that, along with any\h\h

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additional samples, could be retrieved and\h
returned to Earth for closer study by one\h\h

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of the future Mars Sample Return missions being\h
planned by NASA and the European Space Agency.

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The Sept. 12 spacewalk outside the International\h
Space Station will be the first one conducted by\h\h

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two international partner astronauts\h
out of the station’s Quest airlock.\h\h

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Japan’s Akihiko Hoshide and Thomas Pesquet of\h
the European Space Agency will work to attach\h\h

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a support bracket for future installation of the\h
station’s third new solar array. NASA astronaut\h\h

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Mark Vande Hei will provide support during\h
the spacewalk from inside the space station.

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NASA and SpaceX are continuing plans for\h
upcoming International Space Station crew\h\h

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rotation missions. Those plans include the\h
launch of the Crew-3 mission to the space station\h\h

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as early as Sunday Oct. 31, a return to Earth\h
for the Crew-2 astronauts currently onboard the\h\h

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station sometime in the early-to-mid November\h
timeframe, and the launch of Crew-4 – currently\h\h

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targeted for no earlier than April 15, 2022.\h
For more details, visit nasa.gov/commercialcrew.

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We set Dec. 18 as the new target launch date for\h
the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb is a NASA-led\h\h

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international partnership with the European\h
Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.\h\h

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Preparations are underway to ship the telescope\h
to French Guiana, South America where an Ariane\h\h

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5 rocket will launch it on a mission to reveal\h
new and unexpected discoveries to help us better\h\h

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understand the origins of the universe and our\h
place in it. Find out more at webb.nasa.gov.

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On Sept. 9, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy\h
and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos were back outside\h\h

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the International Space Station for\h
the second in a series of spacewalks\h\h

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to outfit Russia’s new Nauka multipurpose\h
laboratory module. Nauka will serve as a\h\h

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new science facility, docking port, and\h
spacewalk airlock for future operations.