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Hi, I'm NASA Kennedy Space Center's Ryan Beltzer

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and I'm taking you Inside KSC

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The first launch from a heavily modified and
refurbished Launch Complex 39A is coming up.

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SpaceX is to launch a cargo-carrying Dragon
capsule aboard a Falcon 9 rocket to inaugurate

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the launch pad's first use since 2011, when
it hosted the liftoff of the final space shuttle

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mission, STS-135.

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The flight, which will not carry a crew, is
to rendezvous with the International Space Station a

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couple days after launch to deliver experiments
and supplies for the residents of the orbiting

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laboratory.

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The science conducted on the station is crucial
for planning ways for astronauts to

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deal with the effects of long-term missions,
such as those that would take them to deep-space

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destinations.

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Congratulations to spaceflight veterans Michael
Foale and Ellen Ochoa, who have been

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selected to join their distinguished colleagues
in the US Astronaut Hall of Fame during an

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induction ceremony on May 19.

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Foale was selected as an astronaut in 1987
and flew into space six times -- five on the

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shuttle, and one aboard the Russian Soyuz.

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He also served as a resident crew member on
both the

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Russian space station Mir and the International
Space Station.

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Ochoa joined NASA in 1988 and

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became an astronaut in 1990.

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A veteran of four shuttle flights, she now
leads NASA's Johnson

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Space Center in Houston.