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CB&I completed the first fill of its non-vacuum liquid hydrogen demonstration tank at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Hydrogen Test Facility on October 2, marking a milestone in large-scale liquid hydrogen storage. Earlier the same day, SpaceX's Crew-13 mission set a new American speed record to the International Space Station, reaching the orbiting outpost in 7 hours and 55 minutes, though the company admitted "we got lucky this time." Also on October 2, Alaxandrea O’Brien, a Proud Dulgubarra-Mamu and Jirrbal woman from the University of Western Australia, received the Andy Thomas Space Foundation and NISA Women’s Leadership Scholarship to support her trip to NASA JPL in California, with the Andy Thomas Space Foundation continuing to sponsor an Indigenous science student in Monash University’s National Indigenous Space Academy program. NASA's upcoming flying robot, Dragonfly, which is about the size of the Mars rover Perseverance, will scout Saturn's moon Titan, arriving in 2034 to spend over three years collecting data while flying around the moon to uncover unique clues about the prebiotic chemistry of early Earth.