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Preparing for a more powerful space station …
Building a more fuel-efficient aircraft …
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And a way to possibly predict solar\h
flares … a few of the stories to\h\h

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tell you about – This Week at NASA!
On Jan. 20, NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and\h\h

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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut\h
Koichi Wakata conducted a spacewalk outside\h\h

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the International Space Station to prepare\h
for future upgrades to the station’s power\h\h

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system. The station’s existing power channels are\h
being augmented with new roll-out solar arrays.
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On Jan. 18, we announced a partnership with\h
Boeing to build, test, and fly an experimental\h\h

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full-scale Sustainable Flight Demonstrator\h
aircraft aimed at lowering emissions.
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“And Boeing’s concept is a Transonic\h
Truss-Braced Wing single-aisle aircraft.”
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Learn more about NASA’s work in\h
aeronautics research at nasa.gov/flight.
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Our Solar Dynamics Observatory has identified\h
small-scale flashes in the upper layers of the\h\h

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solar atmosphere, the corona, that could\h
help us predict solar flares, which,\h\h

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in turn could help us anticipate the disruptive\h
impacts of space weather storms here on Earth.
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Teams at our Michoud Assembly Facility recently\h
completed welding of the Space Launch System,\h\h

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or SLS core stage liquid oxygen tank dome for\h
Artemis III. The liquid oxygen and the liquid\h\h

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hydrogen tanks hold the propellant used to launch\h
the SLS and the Orion spacecraft into space.
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