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Hey I'm NASA Kennedy's Maggie Boffo.

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And I'm NASA Kennedy's Dionne Wallington,
and we're taking you Inside KSC!

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Two veteran NASA astronauts were inducted
into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May

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19 during a ceremony at the Kennedy Space
Center Visitor Complex.

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Ellen Ochoa and Michael Foale bring the number
of space explorers honored to 95.

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Ochoa, who flew on four shuttle missions,
is the first Hispanic woman to travel to space,

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and currently is director of the agency's
Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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Foale is the only U.S. astronaut to serve
on both the International Space Station and

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Russian space station Mir.

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He flew on five space shuttle missions and
Soyuz TMA-3.

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He retired from NASA in 2013.

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Can you dig it?

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More than 40 teams of undergraduate and graduate
students from around the country - each with

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its own, uniquely-designed mining robot - descended
upon the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

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this week for NASA's eighth annual Robotic
Mining Competition.

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Competing against the clock, each robot tries
to move and collect the most regolith, or

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simulated Martian dirt.

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Teams also are judged on their efforts to
use their robots to inspire their communities

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about science and engineering.

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An awards ceremony at the Saturn V Center
concludes the competition.

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The Robotic Mining Competition provides a
competitive environment to foster innovative

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ideas and solutions which could help on NASA's
Journey to Mars.