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Hi! We are NASA's next generation of scientists
and engineers, and we are taking YOU inside
KSC!

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Hundreds of young students had an opportunity
to see, first-hand, what their parents and

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friends do in their jobs at the Kennedy Space
Center. April 28 was Take a Child to Work

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Day, a chance to learn about work at the nation's
premier launch center and one of NASA's proving

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grounds for the journey to Mars.

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Kennedy is well-positioned to highlight the
parallels between aerospace careers and the

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students' own lessons in science, technology,
engineering and math.

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NASA's commercial crew astronauts Suni Williams
and Eric Boe recently tried out a new generation

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of training simulators at the Boeing facility
in St. Louis. The trainers will prepare astronauts

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for launch, flight and returns to Earth aboard
the company's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.

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The Starliner, along with the SpaceX Crew
Dragon, will allow astronauts to, once again,

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travel to the International Space Station
from United States soil.

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Back at Kennedy, preparations to support NASA's
new Space Launch System rocket continue inside

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the Vehicle Assembly Building.

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For the first time, a new VAB work platform
was powered on. Lights illuminated one half

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of the J-level platforms as it was extended.
A preliminary test of both J platforms was

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completed April 28 verifying each platform's
systems and electrical connections worked

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as planned.

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The platforms will allow access to the SLS
as it and the Orion spacecraft are integrated

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and prepared for missions beyond low-Earth
orbit including the Journey to Mars.