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Our Artemis I mega Moon rocket is rolled to the\h
launch pad … The astronauts of our Crew-2 mission\h\h

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come to Washington …. And investigating the impact\h
of dust on our climate … a few of the stories to\h\h

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tell you about – This Week at NASA!
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On June 6, teams at our Kennedy Space Center\h
rolled our Space Launch System rocket, Orion\h\h

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spacecraft, and mobile launcher from the Vehicle\h
Assembly Building to launch pad 39B to prepare\h\h

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for the next\hwet dress rehearsal test\hattempt\h
ahead of the uncrewed\hArtemis I\hflight test.\h\h

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The wet dress rehearsal test is currently\h
targeted for no earlier than June 19.\h

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Our SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts – NASA’s\hShane\h\h

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Kimbrough\hand\hMegan McArthur,\hAkihiko Hoshide\hof\h
the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,\h\h

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and the European Space Agency’s\hThomas Pesquet\h-\h
visited the Washington, D.C. area during the\h\h

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week of June 6 to share experiences from their\h
recent flight to the International Space Station.\h\h

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During a stop at our Mary W. Jackson NASA\h
Headquarters building, they met with NASA\h\h

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leadership and discussed their mission with\h
employees. They also attended an event hosted\h\h

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by the Ambassador of France to the United States\h
during which the French space agency, CNES,\h\h

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became the 20th country to sign the Artemis\h
Accords. The Crew-2 astronauts and their Crew\h\h

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Dragon Endeavour spacecraft spent 199 days in\h
orbit – a record for the longest spaceflight by\h\h

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a U.S. crewed spacecraft.
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The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source\h
Investigation or EMIT is one of the\h\h

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primary payloads scheduled for delivery to\h
the International Space Station on the SpaceX\h\h

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CRS-25 cargo mission. The investigation will use\h
NASA-invented imaging technology to identify the\h\h

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composition of mineral dust from Earth’s arid\h
regions and analyze dust carried through the\h\h

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atmosphere from deserts to see what effects it\h
has on the Earth system and to human populations.\h\h

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The CRS-25 cargo mission is currently\h
targeted to launch no earlier than June 28.\h

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The main body of our Europa\h\h

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Clipper spacecraft was delivered recently to our\h
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.\h\h

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Engineers and technicians there will finish\h
assembling the spacecraft by hand, then test\h\h

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it to make sure it can withstand the journey to\h
Jupiter’s icy moon\hEuropa. Targeted for launch\h\h

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in October 2024, the mission will make nearly 50\h
flybys of the Jovian moon, which is believed to\h\h

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have an underground ocean that contains twice\h
as much water as all oceans on Earth combined.\h\h

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The ocean on Europa may also currently have\h
conditions suitable for supporting life.\h

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Our Ames Research Center recently unveiled a\h
life-size display model of the agency’s VIPER\h\h

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Moon rover for visitors at the Chabot Space\h
and Science Center. VIPER, which is managed\h\h

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by Ames and is part of our\hArtemis\hprogram, will\h
be delivered to the Moon’s South Pole in late 2023\h\h

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to map and explore the region for water and other\h
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lunar surface.
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