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Work to do outside the space station...

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Honoring a pair of former astronauts...

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And a milestone on Mars...

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A few of the stories
to tell you about this week at NASA.

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On February 2nd, NASA astronaut

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Nicole Mann and Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi

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Wakata conducted a spacewalk
to finish installing hardware

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needed for the International Space
Station's next roll-out solar arrays.

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The arrays – to be installed on a future spacewalk –

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are an upgrade to the station's
power system.

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On behalf of President
Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris

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awarded former NASA astronauts
Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken

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the Congressional Space
Medal of Honor, on January 31.

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In 2020, Hurley and Behnken
and became the first astronauts to launch

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to the International Space Station
as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

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On January 29, our Perseverance Mars rover
successfully deposited

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the last of ten planned
sample tubes onto the Martian surface –

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completing the first sample depot
on another world.

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To learn more about plans
to return the samples to Earth

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for study one day, visit mars.nasa.gov/msr.

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The latest edition of NASA's
Spinoff publication features

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more than 40 companies
that have used NASA technology, research

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and funding for commercial products
that benefit people around the globe.

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Spinoff 2023
 is available to read and download

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at spinoff.nasa.gov.

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