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Positioning the agency
 for future success …

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A lunar landing site selected
 for a robotic explorer …

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And highlighting diversity on the Moon ...

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a few of the stories to tell you about –
This Week at NASA!

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On Sept. 21, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
 and other senior officials

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hosted an agency town
 hall from our Mary W. Jackson

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NASA Headquarters building
 in Washington to announce that …

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Going forward, we will reorganize the agency’s
 human spaceflight programs

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into two separate mission directorates.

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Kathy Lueders will serve as associate
 administrator of

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the new Space Operations Mission Directorate,

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which will focus on launch and space
 operations in low-Earth orbit,

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including commercialization,
 the International Space Station,

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and eventually, operations on
 and around the Moon.

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Meanwhile, Jim Free returns to the agency
 to serve as associate administrator

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of the new Exploration Systems
 Development Mission Directorate.

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Exploration Systems
 Development will focus on what comes next.

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Both mission directorates are engineering
 the future of our Moon to Mars

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exploration approach from different ends
 of the spaceflight continuum.

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Creating these two
 separate mission directorates …

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is about the future of space exploration.

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It’s about setting up 
NASA for success.

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NASA will implement
 these new mission directorates

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over the next several months,
 while remaining focused on the safety

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of ongoing operations for commercial crew
 and upcoming Artemis missions.

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We have selected
 the region just outside the western edge

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of Nobile Crater at the Moon’s South Pole
 as the landing site for our Volatiles

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Investigating Polar Exploration
 Rover, or VIPER, mission.

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The robotic rover will be delivered
 to the Moon in 2023

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through our Commercial Lunar
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VIPER will map and explore
 this region for water and other resources.

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The mission will provide further insight
 into our Moon’s cosmic origin, evolution,

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and history, and also help inform future
 Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond.

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The International Astronomical Union has
 accepted the proposal of a summer intern

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in a NASA-affiliated program
 to name a crater at the Moon’s south pole

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after arctic explorer
 Matthew Henson, a Black man who in 1909

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was one of the first people
 to make it to the north pole on Earth.

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The Moon’s south pole is also the region
 in which NASA will land

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the next humans on the lunar surface
 as part of our Artemis program.

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Artemis will send a diverse group
 of astronauts to the Moon,

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including the first woman

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and the first person of color.

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The launch of the joint NASA and U.S.
Geological Survey

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Landsat 9 satellite mission is targeted
for Sept. 27

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from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base.

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Data from the satellite will be added
 to Landsat’s nearly 50-year,

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free and publicly available data record
 of Earth’s landscapes taken from space

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and will continue the program’s
 critical role in monitoring

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the health of Earth and helping
 people manage essential resources.

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The Moon to Mars Ice and Prospecting
 Challenge, near our Langley Research

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Center in Hampton, Va., provided
 an opportunity for student teams from U.S.

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universities to devise revolutionary
 technologies and methods to drill into

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and extract water from simulated lunar
 and Martian subsurface ice stations.

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The challenge is part of a NASA
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a sustained human presence on other worlds
 by potentially making

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use of the available resources
 on those worlds.

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That’s what’s up this week
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