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This week on America In Space, Washington Bureau Chief Rick Potlock reports on three different current news events.

NASA has named the next crew to the International Space Station that includes the next woman.  As of March 2020, 65 women have flown in space, including cosmonauts, astronauts, payload specialists and space station participants. The first American woman in space was Sally Ride on Shuttle STS-7 in June 1983.

In our first Friday Podcast,  "America In Space" NASA announces the contractors for the Modern Human Landing Systems.  Attending the news conference was Washington Bureau Chief Rick Potlock.

In a Special Report, About Space Today will share a news conference with the astronauts aboard the International Space Station.  Washington Bureau Chief, Rick Potlock attended via distancing.

In Part 8 of our series of RETUN TO THE MOON TO STAY, our report focuses on the design of the Space Launch System (SLS) being prepared for the Moon and beyond.

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will blast off atop a Space X Falcon 9 rocket on May 27 departing from the same Kennedy Space Center launch pad used by Apollo and Space Shuttle missions.

The 50 Anniversary of Apollo 13.  It would be man's third attempt to land on the Moon.  Instead it became a life or death battle for survival 200-thousand miles from home.  Commander Jim Lovel exclaims, "Houston, we have a problem."

Our series of Return To The Moon To Stay, continues as Jim Bridenstein, NASA Administrator details the plan to return to the Moon to Stay and its colonization of the Moon..

In our series RETURN TO THE MOON TO STAY, our focuses is on Orion's heat-shield for the crew during the heat pf re-entry.  Rick Potlock reports from the Washington Bureau.