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a new class of astronaut candidates

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highlighting the next era of space

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communications and a new x-ray satellite

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mission a few of the stories to tell you

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about this week at nasa

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on december 6th we introduced the

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agency's newest class of astronaut

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candidates during a ceremony at

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ellington field near our johnson space

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center in houston the ten new candidates

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were selected from more than twelve

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thousand applicants next month they will

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begin a two-year training program after

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that training is complete they could be

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eligible for a variety of flight

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assignments including artemis missions

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on and around the moon for more details

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visit nasa.gov astronauts

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on december 7th nasa's laser

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communications relay demonstration or

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lcrd and a joint nasa u.s naval research

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laboratory experiment on solar energetic

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particles rode to space on a department

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of defense mission from cape canaveral

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lcrt aims to highlight the next era of

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space communications it will demonstrate

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space to ground laser communications and

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will also receive and transmit data from

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an optical terminal that nasa will place

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on the international space station

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the imaging x-ray polarimetry explorer

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or xp mission launched december 9th on a

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spacex falcon 9 rocket from our kennedy

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space center in florida

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xp a collaboration between nasa and the

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italian space agency is the first

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satellite dedicated to measuring the

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polarization of x-rays from a variety of

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cosmic sources such as black holes and

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neutron stars

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the mission could help scientists answer

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fundamental questions about extremely

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complex environments in space where

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gravitational electric and magnetic

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fields are at their limits

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the nasa family is mourning the passing

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of mark geyer

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following a cancer diagnosis earlier

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this year

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guyer moved from his position as center

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director of the johnson space center to

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a new role as senior adviser to

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associate administrator bob cabana

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in a statement on guyer's passing

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administrator bill nelson called geyer a

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giant for human space flight who

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believed we should constantly venture

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farther into the cosmos for the benefit

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on december 7th nasa administrator bill

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nelson and deputy administrator pam

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melroy visited our stennis space center

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in south mississippi stennis the

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nation's premier rocket propulsion test

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facility is where next generation

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engines and other hardware for our space

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launch system or sls moon rocket are

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being tested the next day they toured

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the agency's michoud assembly facility

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in new orleans to see work being done in

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support of nasa's exploration missions

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misshud the agency's rocket factory

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builds components for the sls and the

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orion spacecraft that will return humans

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to the moon

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on december 8 a russian soyuz spacecraft

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carrying cosmonaut alexander mercerkin

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of ross cosmos and two japanese space

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flight participants launched to the

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international space station from

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kazakhstan

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the trio is scheduled to spend about 12

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days on the orbital outpost before

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returning to earth

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that's what's up this week at nasa for

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more on these and other stories follow