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The Orion spacecraft is back in Florida, after
Artemis I …

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A direct deposit on Mars …

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And an insightful mission comes to an end
… a few of the stories to tell you about

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– This Week at NASA!

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The Orion spacecraft that completed the 1.4-million-mile
Artemis I mission beyond the Moon and back,

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has been safely retrieved from the Pacific
Ocean and transported back to our Kennedy

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Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft will
undergo post-flight analysis ahead of the

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first crewed flight of Orion on Artemis II.

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NASA’s Perseverance rover recently deposited
a titanium tube, filled with a rock sample,

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onto the surface of Mars. It is the first
of about 10 sample tubes the rover is expected

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to eventually leave at a location on Mars
called “Three Forks.” Sample tubes dropped

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off there could be returned to Earth by the
future Mars Sample Return campaign.

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Mission managers have ended the InSight mission
on Mars after consecutive attempts to contact

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the spacecraft failed. InSight spent more
than four years collecting unique science

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about the interior layers of Mars that is
helping us better understand all rocky planets,

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including Earth.

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Former NASA astronaut Walter Cunningham passed
away on Jan. 3. Cunningham flew on the first

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crewed Apollo flight, and later served as
chief astronaut for the Skylab program. Walt

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Cunningham was 90 years old.