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welcome to Kennedy now a regular look

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inside activities in progress at NASA's

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Kennedy Space Center in Florida and by

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que se teams around the country three

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two one main engine start ignition and

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liftoff maven flew into space aboard a

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United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on

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November eighteenth to cap a flawless

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launch campaign by NASA's launch

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services program teams of engineers and

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technicians spent months preparing the

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maven orbiter for a daunting ten-month

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journey from Earth to Mars maven orbit

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the red planet for at least a year

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taking detailed readings about the upper

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atmosphere to show scientists

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unprecedented details about the planets

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ancient air engineers soon will begin

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preparation for NASA's next mission the

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launch of the Tigres L communications

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satellite tigra cell will be the newest

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member of the agency's critical network

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of satellites that communicates with the

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International Space Station the Hubble

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Space Telescope and a host of NASA's

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scientific observatories launch

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preparations for another landmark

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mission continued to pick up pace at

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Kennedy the first Orion spacecraft is

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being readied for an uncrewed test

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flight that will evaluate the heat

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shield for use on missions returning

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astronauts from deep space that heat

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shield arrived at Kennedy on December

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fifth and was taken to a processing area

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where a specialist will attach it to the

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bottom of the uriah launch of the test

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flight is slated for next year on a

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mission that will send the spacecraft

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3,600 miles above earth setting up a

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searing plunge through the atmosphere to

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simulate the forces it will encounter

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coming back from an astronaut nasa

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administrator charlie bolden and Kennedy

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Director Bob Cabana both former

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astronauts took a look at some of the

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hardware under construction for the

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Orion mission the agency's Commercial

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Crew program base to kennedy moved

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within sight of its ultimate objective

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it issued a request for proposals from

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the aerospace industry for a commercial

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space transportation system that will

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fly cruise into orbit and to the

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International Space Station in

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20-17 the request which will result in a

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contract next year builds on the

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significant design and development work

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nasa and its partners have been involved

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in for more than three years while the

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proposals are considered CCP partners

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continue their development of numerous

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systems that will make up their

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spacecraft Blue Origin test-fired its

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be-3 engine the hydrogen fueled engine

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is seen as a power plant for a booster

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the company is designing to lift Blue

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Origin space vehicle into space

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meanwhile Sierra Nevada Corporation and

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SpaceX also recently achieved safety