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NASA astronauts share their space station experience.

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Our heavy duty hauler crawls into the history books.

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And preparing for the return of some historic samples.

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

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During the week of March 27, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins, Robert Hines, and Kjell Lindgren visited the Washington,

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D.C. area to share the experience of their SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station.

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The visit included an employee event at NASA Headquarters, as well as an event at the Martin Luther King,

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Jr. Memorial Library to help students learn about our Artemis missions to the Moon.

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The next time our Crawler Transporter 2, or CT-2 carries the mobile launcher and Artemis Moon rocket to the launch pad,

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the heavy-duty hauler will also carry the

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official Guinness World Records designation recently bestowed upon it as “the heaviest self-powered vehicle.”

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The CT-2 weighs about 6.65 million pounds, the equivalent of about 1,000 pickup trucks.

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx team is preparing for the spacecraft to return the sample material it collected from asteroid Bennu.

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The O-REx sample capsule is expected to touchdown in the Utah desert on Sept. 24,

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becoming the first-ever U.S. mission to return an asteroid sample to Earth.

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Our Dragonfly mission, scheduled to launch to Saturn’s giant moon, Titan, in 2027,

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recently passed all the technical requirements and standards of its Preliminary Design Review.

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Dragonfly will study the chemistry at work on Titan –

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which could help us better understand the kinds of chemical steps that ultimately led to life here on Earth.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA.

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