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Common Core State Standard
SL.CCS.1/2/3/4 Grades 6-12: An essay of a current news event is provided for discussion to encourage participation, but also inspire the use of evidence to support logical claims using the main ideas of the article. Students must analyze background information provided about a current event within the news, draw out the main ideas and key details, and review different opinions on the issue. Then, students should present their own claims using facts and analysis for support. FOR THE WEEK OF JAN. 23, 2023 What's ahead in 2023 space activities aimed at landing on the moon and studying Mars![]() ![]() Read about any other out-of-this-world topic. React in up to 12 words.
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America's space agency plans another year of exciting missions. NASA activities in 2023 will follow a year of dramatic advances that included cosmic scenes captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA last year also showed it can use a spacecraft to knock a potentially risky asteroid into an orbit further from Earth, and completed the first phase of an Artemis program aimed at returning astronauts to the moon as early as 2025. Now SpaceX, a private company working on Artemis with the government, is testing a next-generation rocket called Starship for NASA's lunar landing attempt. The firm is preparing to launch an uncrewed orbital flight from South Texas, expected sometime this year. Separately, a Japanese company named Ispace last month launched an unmanned moon mission on a SpaceX rocket. It's taking a slow, fuel-efficient route to the moon and is set to arrive in April, when it will try to deploy a rover built by the United Arab Emirates, a robot built by Japan's space agency and other payloads. Aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 254 miles above Earth, seven crew members -- including three Americans -- are doing research aimed at sustaining future crews farther from Earth. One project using genetically engineered microbes to provide nutrients on demand in space. NASA flight engineer Nicole Mann this month nourished and incubated genetically engineered yeast samples in an on-board lab. And on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is filling sample tubes with rocky material as the agency works on the next steps to get them back to Earth for study. That geology evidence could answer a key question: Did life ever exist on Mars?
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