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    Oct 28

    🗓️ SAVE THE DATE: Our Crew-1 mission launches Nov. 14. Feeling excited? Nostalgic? Share a video using for a chance to be featured on-air during our live broadcast or our social media: 🚀 Watch:

    Nov. 14, 2020: Astronauts to Launch on NASA and SpaceX Crew-1 Mission
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  2. 10 hours ago

    This week... 🌔 An agreement with to collaborate on 💧 Our finds water molecules on the Moon's sunlit surface 🛰️ successfully stows the sample it captured from asteroid Bennu Watch:

    An International Agreement for Artemis on This Week @NASA – 10/30/20
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  3. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    Update: and currently are reviewing the Nov. 10 date for the launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich pending ongoing analysis of data from engines. We are looking at dates after the launch of Crew-1 on Nov. 14, which is still on track. (1/2)

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  4. 14 hours ago

    👀 New views from our spacecraft's Oct. 20 TAG maneuver, as it touched down on the surface of asteroid Bennu and collected a sample of rocks & dust with its robotic arm:

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    Now that the sample is sealed up in the Sample Return Capsule, I can finally share this video from TAG! This is the view from one of my navigation cameras… pretty intense, huh? More details:
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  5. 15 hours ago

    Is there life beyond Earth? scientists & missions use the tools of space exploration to search for an answer. On the latest podcast, astronomer & historian Steven Dick talks about what such a discovery would mean. 🎧 Listen:

    Gravity Assist: The History of the Future
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  6. 17 hours ago

    🔆 🔆 How do you design the best headlights for a Moon rover? A team at is building and testing a system of lights & cameras for VIPER, which will search for water ice at the Moon's South Pole & help prepare the way for astronauts:

    Team at NASA Ames adjusts lighting system shining on simulated lunar landscape
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    19 hours ago

    Something else is out there... New posters in English and en español! Dark Matter: Materia Oscura:

    Dark matter poster
    Materia oscura poster
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    20 hours ago

    - Expedition One prime crew Sergei Krikalev, left, Yuri Gidzenko, Bill Shepherd; with backup crew members Bowersox, Dezhurov, and Tyurin, right, during the State Commission meeting, Oct. 30, 2000, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. 🚀

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  9. 20 hours ago

    This week on : A look back at Expedition 1's Oct. 31, 2000 launch to the as we celebrate the , while the current crew continues . Plus, Nov. 14 is the new target launch date for Crew-1:

    Space to Ground: How It Started: 10/30/2020
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  10. 21 hours ago

    "I think the most fitting tribute is for the 3 of us to just go take a nice, long view out of the cupola, look at the beautiful Earth, and appreciate this amazing space station." - Kate Rubins of on how they'll celebrate the anniversary Nov. 2.

    How Will the Space Station Crew Mark the 20th Anniversary?
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  11. 21 hours ago

    LIVE from the : Kate Rubins of & cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov discuss the anniversary marking 20 years of continuous human presence in space:

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    Oct 29

    Have a Q for the crew? residents Kate Rubins of , Sergey Ryzhikov, and Sergey of chat live about their mission and . 🗓️Oct. 30 at 11:10am ET 📺

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  13. Oct 29

    🎃 A galactic pumpkin nearly 109,000 light-years wide... Our telescope captured colliding galaxies glowing with the color of aging red stars. The "eyes" are concentrations of stars around a pair of supermassive black holes:

    Deep space image of glowing orange galaxies with two bright centers resembling eyes
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  14. Oct 29

    ✅ Sample stowed ✅ Capsule closed Our spacecraft's sample of rocks & dust from asteroid Bennu is safe for return to Earth. The mission team from , & worked around the clock to successfully stow the sample:

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    Oct 29

    A few years ago, when my youngest daughter was in kindergarten, she suggested these three essential items for a . Pretty comprehensive, the rest is just details!

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    Oct 29

    About half of Sun-like stars could have a rocky planet capable of having liquid water on its surface, finds 's Kepler mission. This research helps us understand the potential for these planets to have the conditions to support life:

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    Oct 29

    I’ve officially closed the Sample Return Capsule! The sample of Bennu is sealed inside and ready for our voyage back to Earth. The SRC will touch down in the Utah desert on Sep. 24, 2023. Thanks, everyone, for being a part of my journey

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  18. Oct 29

    LIVE NOW: Mission experts discuss 's asteroid sample stowage, preparations for the trip back to Earth, and what going will teach us about the solar system:

    Illustration of OSIRIS-REx touching down on asteroid Bennu
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  19. Oct 29

    LIVE: Watch with us as the Expedition 1 crew — the very first mission to the — sits down with the to discuss what was it like to live and work aboard our orbiting laboratory 20 years ago:

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  20. Oct 29

    Join the team today at 4pm ET for updates on the sample of asteroid Bennu currently being stowed & prepped for its journey to Earth. Learn how venturing allows us to discover more about the origins of our solar system and more:

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  21. Oct 29

    ✨ Our spacecraft may have detected "sprites" — bright, unpredictable, brief flashes of light — dancing in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. Sprites occur on Earth above thunderstorms, but it's the first time they've been observed on another world:

    Illustration of "sprite" flash of light on Jupiter
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