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A spacecraft changes parking
spots at the Space Station.

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A surprising look at a star
in another solar system.

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And small satellites that could be
a big help tracking tropical storms.

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

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On May 6, the International Space
Station’s Expedition 69 crew members

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who flew to the station as part of our
SpaceX Crew-6 mission,

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relocated their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

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The crew, including NASA’s Steve Bowen and
Woody Hoburg, moved the Dragon

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to another docking port on the station’s
Harmony module to make room

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for an uncrewed SpaceX Dragon cargo
spacecraft targeted to launch

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to the station in June.

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This image of the dusty debris disk around
the young star, Fomalhaut

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was captured by our James Webb
Space Telescope while studying the first

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asteroid belt ever seen outside of our
 solar system in infrared light.

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To the surprise of astronomers, the
dusty structures, which contain

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three nested belts – including the
never-before-seen inner belts,

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are much more complex than the asteroid
and Kuiper dust belts

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of our own solar system.

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On May 8, the first pair of NASA’s TROPICS
CubeSats launched aboard an Electron

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rocket from Rocket Lab’s Launch 
Complex 1 in New Zealand.

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The mission will use a constellation of
four of the identical small satellites

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to fly in a unique, inclined low Earth 
orbit that will enable them

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to observe tropical cyclones more
frequently than current

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weather tracking satellites.

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Congratulations to former astronauts
Roy D. Bridges Jr.,

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and Senator Mark E. Kelly.

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They are the newest inductees to the
U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

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They were inducted as the Hall of Fame’s
class of 2023 during a May 6 ceremony

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at the Kennedy Space Center
Visitor Complex.