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The Crew-3 astronauts arrive
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A critical milestone for our water-hunting lunar robot …

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And a deeper, more full view down into Jupiter’s atmosphere …

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

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The astronauts of NASA’s
 SpaceX Crew-3 mission

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to the International Space Station arrived
 at our Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 26

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for final prelaunch activities.

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NASA’s Raja Chari,
 Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron,

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along with European Space Agency
 astronaut Matthias Maurer are traveling

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to the station aboard the SpaceX
 Crew Dragon spacecraft that they named, “Endurance.”

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“This will actually be the first rocket launch I’ve

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seen in person,
 and I’ll be in the capsule on top of it.

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So, I’m
 really excited for the whole experience,

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because I’m really excited
 about the next phase of things

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we’re doing in the Artemis program,
 and the space station

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is an excellent platform
 to help us get ready for those missions.”

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“We pretend to be astronauts
 so often – we’re always training.

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And now when we see the vehicle it’s
 actually the real deal,

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and the next time we see
 the ISS will be the actual ISS.

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So, I think processing that is a pretty
 cool thing about this week.”

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Crew-3 is the third crew rotation flight
 to the space station with a Crew Dragon

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through our Commercial Crew Program
 and the fourth Crew Dragon flight overall

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to the station with astronauts,
 including the Demo-2 test flight.

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There is more about the mission
 at nasa.gov/commercialcrew.

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Our VIPER lunar mobile

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robot has passed its Critical Design
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that clears the mission to move
 from design to construction of the rover.

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VIPER will be delivered to the Moon
 through our Commercial Lunar

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Payload Services initiative
 to explore for ice and other resources

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and help inform future Artemis missions
 to the Moon and beyond.

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Several scientific papers
 have been published

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highlighting new findings from NASA’s
 Juno mission at Jupiter

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that provide a fuller picture
 of how the planet’s colorful

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and distinctive atmospheric features
 offer clues

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to unseen processes
 deeper down below the planet’s cloud tops.

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Juno’s
 microwave radiometer (MWR) allows mission

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scientists to see beneath the cloud tops
 and probe the structure of Jupiter’s

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numerous vortex storms for the first time,
 including the planet’s Great Red Spot.

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Learn more at: nasa.gov/juno.

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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory

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may have detected signs of an exoplanet
 transiting, or crossing in front of,

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a star outside of our Milky Way galaxy
 for the first time.

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This possible exoplanet, or planet outside of our solar system,

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is in the spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51) –
 about 28 million light-years from Earth.

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That is thousands of times
 farther away from us than all other known

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exoplanets and exoplanet candidates –
 all of which are within the Milky Way.

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For more details, check out nasa.gov/chandra.

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Just in time for Halloween –
 our newest Galaxy of Horrors posters

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feature a roasted exoplanet that orbits
 so close to its sun that temperatures

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in its atmosphere soar
 to about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit,

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and the bone-chilling force known
 as dark energy, which can push a galaxy

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deep into the pitch black expanse of outer
 space to suffer a freezing death.

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You can download these and other posters
 for free, in

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English and Spanish,
 at exoplanets.nasa.gov/galaxy.

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Our Stennis Space Center is

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celebrating the 60-year
 anniversary of NASA announcing plans

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to build a site in south Mississippi
 to test Apollo rocket stages and engines.

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That test site became Stennis
 Space Center.

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Following Apollo,
 the center tested the main engines

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for every space shuttle
 mission and continues its critical role

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today – testing the engines
 and other hardware for the agency’s

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Space Launch System rocket for our upcoming
 Artemis missions to the Moon.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …