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these people are here in Mission Control

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were responsible for guiding NASA's

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eighteen hundred pound on land Voyager 1

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spacecraft some billion miles through

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space on November twelfth after a

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three-year journey Voyager 1 made its

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closest to compromise with the planet

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Saturn now Plus sequencer receiver plus

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proof Voyager has returned more than

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18,000 photographs photographs that are

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giving scientists excellent close-up

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views and new information about the huge

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planet and its many moons with the help

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of computer animation you can take a

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ride on Voyager to Saturn and its major

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moons voyagers 11 scientific instruments

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probed deep into the atmosphere of

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Saturn and gave us an unprecedented view

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of those incredible rings we now know

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there are six major ring systems made up

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of possibly as many as a thousand Rings

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the Rings are Sun reflecting icy objects

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ranging from Boulder sized to small

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particles that were all around the

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planet at very high speeds and those

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moons are satellites like outriders they

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encircle Saturn generating as much

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scientific interest as the great range

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planet itself my masseuse dyani Raya

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Titan and a host of smaller ones Melissa

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did more than a thousand journalists on

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hand to witness the encounter and

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attends a science briefings that follow

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now if this is in these were some of the

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storytellers the engineers and

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scientists want unsigned you that it's

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always gratifying to have the results be

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something more than what was expected

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and Saturn and what we have found was

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not expected I suspect even for the next

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few years we will find a new discoveries

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in the data which we've acquired in the

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last few days as we see more and more

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examples of the way the universe can put

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planets together we find that our

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terrestrial perspective in explaining

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our own

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planet has been rather limited we get

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new ideas from this what we learned

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about Saturn during that encounter and

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during the months that preceded it have

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really rewritten the textbooks on Saturn

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next August Voyager 2 will approach

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and ice from a different angle and then

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fly on to Uranus arriving there in 1986

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it may also travel to Neptune before

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leaving our solar system from Earth it

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appears as a warm friendly ball an

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integral part of everything living but

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up close it's a churning solar furnace

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that spouts solar flares in an

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atmosphere that's constantly changing

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and explosive little wonder that our

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star the Sun has been the focal point of

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scientific investigation for centuries

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to relay sophisticated pictures and data

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about the Sun and its energy cycles nasa

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launched the solar max we might conclude

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short our solar maximum mckellar what if

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everyone being returned are the first

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true close-up views of the mysterious

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Sun service all this part of an effort

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to learn how we can channel the Sun into

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an even more effective energy source

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closer to Earth sounding rockets probe

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balloons carry heavy instruments that

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need a longer flight time than sounding

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rockets provide both play an important

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role in the scientific study of the

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Earth's atmosphere everything from

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measuring the amount of ozone to gamma

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space transportation system continued at

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many levels in preparation for the

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practice recovery runs were made to

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retrieve the two solid rocket boosters

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that will be used to help launch the

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space shuttle just before going into

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orbit the big rocket boosters parachute

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back to an ocean landing where they are

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picked up and made ready for another

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launch the shuttle orbiters main engines

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have successfully passed firing tests

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singly and clustered in a group of three

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installation of thermal tiles that

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protect the spacecraft from heat buildup

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during re-entry are now in place and

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this is how the entire space

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transportation system will look the

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airplane like orbiter is attached to the

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main fuel tank with the two solid rocket

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boosters on each side a new type space

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to zoom in the something to provide an

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earthlike in violence as well as thermal

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protection from the Sun the advanced

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space suits have three basic parts a

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body cooling under violet a

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life-support backpack which contains

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seven hours of oxygen and controls

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useless temperatures yeah this is

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astronaut Bob Crippen it is he and John

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Young who will pilot the first shuttle

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flight since the Shuttle Orbiter glides

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it's important for the astronauts to

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have practice these types of landings in

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advance they do just that with a

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specially modified jet plane designed to

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handle and feel the way the shuttle does

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during final approach and landing crews

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are also training on this vertical

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motion simulator it reproduces the

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motion and astronaut at the controls of

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the Shuttle Orbiter would feel during

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approach flare and landing without

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leaving the ground preparing for a busy

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shuttle flight in the years ahead nasa

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selected an additional 19 men and women

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to begin training as astronauts and that

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training is well underway it please many

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of the astronauts recruited earlier are

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willing to Florida man maneuvering unit

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a compressed gas backpack that will

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enable the wearer to move around outside

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the shuttle in space on future flights

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at another facility engineers are

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working to develop procedures and

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hardware that will be needed for

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astronauts to build large structures in

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space and they do it underwater more

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than a million gallons of water to

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simulate weightlessness people machines

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spacesuits engines slowly but surely a

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major effort is being focused on a

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the historic first flight of this

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country's new space transportation

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system at that time is near in space

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applications the goes for weather

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satellite was checked out and launched

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from the kennedy space center florida

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weather forecasters and other scientists

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are using the satellite to study severe

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storms flash floods and tornadoes this

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goes east satellite picture taken last

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summer shows both hurricane Allen over

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the Gulf of Mexico and hurricane Isis in

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the Pacific Ocean ever since the

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spectacular eruption of Mount st. Helens

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nASA has been working closely with other

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scientists to assess the impact one of

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recently a plane from the langley

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research center in Virginia who a group

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of scientists and their instruments near

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the mountain other things

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gases come out of volcanoes worldwide

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NASA continued its movement towards

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making the Landsat satellite and

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operational remote sensing system both

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here and around the world Landsat is

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planning and a way to better manage

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agriculture and forestry energy from

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sunlight to power spacecraft is very

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important now technology is being

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studied as a way to harvest thermal

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energy from the Sun here on earth this

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is a research version of a solar farm

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the dish shaped concentrators are

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covered with mirrors which reflect and

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focus the sun's rays to a point where

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the intense heat is converted to

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electricity rows of these collectors may

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one day help provide electric power or a

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small city or factory it's part of a

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joint national effort by government and

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industry sponsored by the US Department

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NASA's Lewis Research Center also worked

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with the energy department to develop

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this two hundred thousand watt wind

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turbine generator Hawaii strong trains

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grow year-round making it an ideal

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location for electricity producing wind

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machines this one which began operation

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last July is located 45 miles north of

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Honolulu 1980 was a busy year for NASA's

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various aeronautics programs consider

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this rotor systems research aircraft

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these unique craft can be flown not only

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as helicopters but also with wings and

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jet engines the studies will investigate

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promising new helicopter technologies to

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improve performance reliability and

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safety this strange-looking plane is the

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Q SRA which means quiet short-haul

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research aircraft it can land at speeds

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stop in 600 feet in a cooperative test

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full-stop landings without the help of

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arresting gear or catapults aboard the

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carrier USS kitty hawk this was the

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first time a four-engine jet transport

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improve transportation services too many

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offshore oil rigs the crashed helicopter

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rotors tilt forward for cruise flight at

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over 300 miles per hour the tiltrotor

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concept achieves twice the range of a

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bridging the gap between wind tunnel

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technology after being carried along by

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a b-52 hi Matt drops away however their

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pilot murder leaves the garden from here

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he can fly the remotely piloted vehicle

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through any number of complex maneuvers

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and high speed turns this has proved to

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be an excellent technique for doing

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high-risk flight testing less

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expensively and with no danger to the

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pilot this small jet powered research

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plane takes off and lands like most

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aircraft but in flight it's unlike

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anything flying the pilot of the scissor

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wing concept plane can pivot the wing up

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to 60 degrees decreasing the air drag

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and making it possible to fly faster and

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farther without increasing fuel

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consumption the ad 1 scissor wing has

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made several successful flights at

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pilots have always landed with no help

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an experimental automated pilot advisory

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system hey pass NASA's Wallops Flight

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successfully demonstrated it at the

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Manassas airport in cooperation with the

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Federal Aviation Administration as

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channel and a Contreras voice tells the

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Randall ok cono an old congrats to

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allowing back mile down one getting wet

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the FAA will now determine the merits of

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around the country adding a greater

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margin of safety for general aviation

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violence from the voyager 1 flyby of

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saturn to preparations for the space

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shuttle and a wide range of research

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aircraft projects 1980 was an

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interesting and productive year in both

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