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220120-F-MQ455-1062

U.S. Space Force Col. Mike Hopkins, NASA astronaut, speaks to Sandia Elementary students through a virtual conference on Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., Jan. 20, 2022. Hopkins, who has been an astronaut for 13 years and traveled to space twice, briefed the students about his career, talked about his personal experience as an astronaut and answered the students' questions. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ireland Summers)
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AFRL Technology traveling to Mars

Over the last 25 years, the AFRL Space Electronics Technology (SET) program has funded the technology behind the BAE RAD750 computer processing unit (CPU) – the brains – and memory, the Xilinx Virtex5QV reprogrammable computer, and the Honeywell GVSC flight computer being used on the Mars Perseverance rover
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AFRL Technology traveling to Mars

The Red Planet, Mars, will soon be receiving more visitors when NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover accompanied by its flight companion, a 4-pound Mars Helicopter named Ingenuity, touches down in February 2021.
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AFRL Technology traveling to Mars

An important AFRL innovation that supported the deployment of the Ingenuity helicopter is a software suite called Veritrek that spun out of AFRL research and funding that began in 2009.
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200521-F-PM546-1059

During a recent visit to Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, on May 21, 2020, Secretary of the Air Force Barbara M. Barrett, took part in a virtual conference call along with Chief of Space Operations Gen. John ‘Jay’ Raymond, and spoke with NASA astronaut, Air Force Col. Robert Behnke, about his upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Benhke will be the first American to launch from American soil in nine years, in an American rocket and capsule on May 27. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Enrique Barcelo)
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200521-F-PM546-1051

During a recent visit to Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, on May 21, 2020, Secretary of the Air Force Barbara M. Barrett, took part in a virtual conference call along with Chief of Space Operations Gen. John ‘Jay’ Raymond, and spoke with NASA astronaut, Air Force Col. Robert Behnke, about his upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Benhke will be the first American to launch from American soil in nine years, in an American rocket and capsule on May 27. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Enrique Barcelo)
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200521-F-PM546-1050

During a recent visit to Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, on May 21, 2020, Secretary of the Air Force Barbara M. Barrett, took part in a virtual conference call along with Chief of Space Operations Gen. John ‘Jay’ Raymond, and spoke with NASA astronaut, Air Force Col. Robert Behnke, about his upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Benhke will be the first American to launch from American soil in nine years, in an American rocket and capsule on May 27. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Enrique Barcelo)
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