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The second all-private astronaut
mission to the space station.

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Completing the set of
tiny severe weather trackers.

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And a robotic explorer – with a twist …
a few of the stories to tell you about – 
This Week at NASA!

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On May 21, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft
launched from our Kennedy Space Center

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on Axiom Mission 2,

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the second all private astronaut mission
to the International Space Station.

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The four-person crew, commanded by former
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson,

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is scheduled to spend several days
conducting research, outreach,

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and commercial activities
on the space station.

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The final two CubeSats for our TROPICS
mission launched from Rocket Lab’s

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Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on May 26.

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The small satellites will join two other
identical spacecraft that launched

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to orbit earlier this month.

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All four will fly, as a constellation, in
a unique low Earth orbit

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that will allow them to observe tropical 
cyclones,

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including hurricanes and typhoons,

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more often than what is possible with
current weather satellites.

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A team at our Jet Propulsion Laboratory is
creating and testing a snake-like robot

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called EELS, short for
Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor.

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The self-propelled, autonomous robot is
being developed to go 
where other robots can’t go.

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Although it was inspired by a desire to
look for signs of life

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in the sub-surface ocean on Saturn’s
icy moon, Enceladus,

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EELS is not currently part
of any NASA mission.

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On May 23, our Stennis Space Center
conducted a hot fire test of
an RS-25 rocket engine.

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It was the eighth hot fire of
the current 12-test series

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to certify production of new RS-25s.

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Four of the engines will help power our
Space Launch System rocket

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on future Artemis missions to the Moon.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA.