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hey I'm NASA Kennedy's Jason Schuler

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taking you inside KSC

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students from universities and colleges

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throughout the country came to the Space

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Coast for an out-of-this-world event 45

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teams entered their robots in NASA's 9th

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annual robotic mining competition at

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Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex the

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goal is to mine and collect the most

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regolith or simulated lunar soil within

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a specified amount of time each team

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also provided a demonstration of their

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uniquely designed robotic miners the

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annual event provides a competitive

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environment to foster innovative ideas

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that could be used on NASA's deep space

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exploration mission an upcoming launch

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from Wallops Island Virginia will carry

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important cargo prepared at Kennedy to

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the International Space Station

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the advanced plant habitat base is

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targeted for liftoff aboard orbital

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ATK's Cygnus spacecraft on May 20th it

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contains several varieties of seeds

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prepared inside the laboratory at

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Kennedy Space Station processing

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facility the advanced plant habitat is a

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fully automated plant growth facility

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that's being used to conduct bioscience

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research on the space station

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it's the largest plant chamber built for