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An update on our
 Artemis I Moon mission ...

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A first for our James
 Webb Space Telescope ...

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And a new target launch date
 for the next commercial crew mission ...

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

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Our uncrewed Artemis I flight test

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is the first integrated test of NASA's
 Orion spacecraft, Space

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Launch System, or SLS,
 the most powerful rocket in the world,

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and the ground systems at the agency's
 Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Over the course of about 38 days,
 the mission will see Orion travel

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thousands of miles beyond the Moon,

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farther than any spacecraft
 built for humans has ever flown.

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Artemis I is the first in a series
 of increasingly complex missions

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that will provide a foundation for human
 deep space exploration and demonstrate

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our commitment and capability to extend
 human existence to the Moon and beyond.

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For the first time,
 astronomers have used our James

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Webb Space Telescope
 to take a direct image of an exoplanet.

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The planet, called HIP65426 b,

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is a gas giant about five to 10 times
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Taking direct images of exoplanets

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is challenging because stars
 are so much brighter than planets.

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But Webb has an instrument
 called a Coronagraph that blocks out

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starlight and makes it possible to capture
 direct images of certain exoplanets.

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This ability could help Webb
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than ever before about exoplanets.

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NASA and SpaceX are now targeting

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no earlier than 12:45 p.m. EDT on Oct. 3,

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for the launch

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of the agency's Crew-5 mission
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The launch date adjustment
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coming to and leaving
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NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh
 Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration

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Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata,
 and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina

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will launch aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon
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NASA, the French space agency,
 CNES, and SpaceX are now targeting Dec.

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5 for the launch of the Surface Water
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SWOT is the first satellite mission
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all water on Earth,
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The mission will help inform water equity
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provide new insights into Earth's water
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and help prepare communities
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resulting from climate change.

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Engineers have fixed an issue
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data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.

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They discovered that Voyager 1's attitude
 articulation and control system, or AACS,

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a critical system aboard the probe,
 had been sending garbled telemetry data

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through an onboard computer
 that stopped working correctly years ago.

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Consequently, that computer corrupted
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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2
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The twin probes, which were launched weeks
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September of 1977, have been exploring
 our solar system for 45 years.

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That's what's up this week @NASA ...