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A commercial crew spacecraft’s
 historic test mission ...

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Recognizing the leadership of our James
Webb Space Telescope team ...

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And a small spacecraft prepares
 for a unique mission around the Moon …

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

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"Approaching the International Space
 Station ...."

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On May 20, Boeing’s uncrewed

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CST-100 Starliner spacecraft
 arrived at the International Space Station

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on the Orbital Flight Test-2
 or OFT-2 mission

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for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

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“Soft capture confirmed.”

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“Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft
 completes its historic first docking

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to the International Space Station,
 opening a new avenue of access for crews

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to the orbiting laboratory.”

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The next day – another first for Starliner,

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thanks to the efforts of NASA astronauts
 Kjell Lindgren and Bob Hines.

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"All right – and it looks like
 the hatch is open to the Starliner.

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Bob Hines is the first astronaut
 to enter Starliner in orbit.”

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The Starliner spent several days
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which time teams conducted
 a series of planned tests, and the station

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crew transferred several hundred
 pounds of cargo and supplies.

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Starliner undocked from the station
 on May 25 and returned to Earth later

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the same day, making a landing
 at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico.

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The OFT-2 mission was designed to test

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the end-to-end capabilities
 of the Starliner system

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to safely transport astronauts
 to and from the space station.

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Gregory Robinson,
 the program director for NASA’s

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James Webb Space
 Telescope, was named to the TIME100 -

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the magazine’s annual list of the world’s
 100 most influential people and leaders.

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Robinson began his career at NASA in 1989
 and joined the Webb team in 2018.

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In his current role,
 he oversees what will be

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the premier space observatory
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The Webb telescope will explore
 every phase of 13.5 billion years

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of cosmic history to help us understand
 our place in the universe.

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The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System

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Technology Operations
 and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE

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mission is targeted for launch
 no earlier than June 6.

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It is a collaboration
 between NASA and industry

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that will use a microwave oven-sized
 CubeSat to test a unique elliptical orbit

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around the Moon, formally known
 as a near rectilinear halo orbit.

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The mission will help reduce risk
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including Gateway, a Moon-orbiting outpost
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by validating innovative
 navigation technologies

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and verifying the dynamics
 of this halo-shaped orbit.

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The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts,
 or NIAC program selected

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a new solar sail concept for development
 toward a demonstration mission.

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The solar sail, which uses
 a property of light called diffraction

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to make more efficient use of sunlight,
 could carry science to new destinations.

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For more information
 about NIAC and NASA’s investments

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in space technology,
 visit: nasa.gov/spacetech.

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Our Ingenuity helicopter on Mars captured

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this black-and-white footage
 during its record-breaking 25th flight.

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The flight, which took place on April 18,

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was also Ingenuity’s
 longest and fastest flight to date.

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The rotorcraft traveled over 2,300 feet
 and reached a speed of 12 mph.

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That’s what’s up this week
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