NASA Cargo Ship Gives the Space Station a Boost begins with a clear news idea: Our final story floats above our planet, where the International Space Station circles Earth again and again. NASA said Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo craft fired its engines for 20 minutes and 43 seconds to raise the space station’s orbit. That means the cargo ship gave the station a carefully planned push. Why would a space station need a boost? Even though the station is in space, it is not completely free from Earth’s atmosphere. Way up there, the air is extremely thin, but there are
Important details from the episode include: Our final story floats above our planet, where the International Space Station circles Earth again and again. NASA said Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo craft fired its engines for 20 minutes and 43 seconds to raise the space station’s orbit. That means the cargo ship gave the station a carefully planned push.
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Important details from the episode include: Our final story floats above our planet, where the International Space Station circles Earth again and again. NASA said Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo craft fired its engines for 20 minutes and 43 seconds to raise the space station’s orbit. That means the cargo ship gave the station a carefully planned push.
Strong readers can compare the story with other sources, look for the main claim, and talk about what details made the story trustworthy or surprising.