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Remembering our fallen heroes.

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An agency town hall to talk safety.

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And the end of an historic mission on Mars.

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

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Music: “Taps” Our annual Day of Remembrance observance at Arlington National Cemetery took place on Jan. 25.

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The event honors the astronauts of Apollo 1; space shuttles Challenger and Columbia;

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and other members of the NASA family who lost their lives furthering the cause of exploration and discovery for the benefit all.

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Earlier in the week, we hosted an employee safety town hall at the agency’s headquarters in Washington.

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During the event,

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NASA leadership discussed how the core value of safety embraced around the

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agency every day is the cornerstone to achieving mission success for NASA.

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Our Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, the first aircraft in history to make a powered,

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controlled flight on another planet, has ended its mission after almost three years on the Red Planet.

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While landing during a recent flight,

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one or more of Ingenuity’s rotor blades sustained damage and the helicopter is no longer capable of flight.

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Ingenuity, which was designed to only perform up to five experimental test flights over 30 days,

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made 72 flights and flew more than 14 times farther than planned while logging more than two hours of total flight time.

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Axiom Mission 3, the third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, docked to the orbital complex on Jan. 20.

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The Axiom Space crew was welcomed aboard by the station’s Expedition 70 crew, including NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara.

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The Axiom Space astronauts are expected to remain on the space station until Feb. 3.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA.

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For more about what else we’re up to, check out nasa.gov.