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I Gatorade oh bugger luck kurama hi

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welcome to this edition of NASA images

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I'm Lynn Bondurant during this show

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we're focusing on historic NASA footage

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showing down-to-earth uses of space

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technology our first clip from early

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nineteen seventy three shows how a moon

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rock analyzer benefits medicine this

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ambulance arriving at a hospital in

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Boston has something in common with

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these astronauts collecting lunar

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samples on the moon the two come

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together as a result of the work being

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done here a chemistry lab at the

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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when unconscious patients without

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medical identification arrive at Boston

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hospitals blood samples or other body

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fluids are sent to the MIT lab using

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sophisticated equipment researchers are

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able to tell if the patient has had an

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overdose of drugs or other poisons the

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procedure takes two hours in the past

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two days was not uncommon the new

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technique can determine which of several

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hundred drugs the patient may have taken

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Ness originally purchased the mass

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spectrometer set up for us as part of

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the project to analyze rocks brought

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back from the moon since this equipment

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was available to us here in the

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laboratory we decided to utilize it for

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the purpose of analyzing body fluids and

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has worked out very well for this

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purpose also dr. Kathryn Costello is

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responsible for the hospital project at

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MIT we do samples on an emergency basis

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24 hours a day on call for any hospital

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which requests such an analysis there is

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no charge to the hospitals for this

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service we ask dr. Costello to describe

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the analysis process

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if the sample which we receive is blood

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then it must first be centrifuged this

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separates the heavier red blood cells

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from the serum layer which will contain

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the drug and which we analyze after it's

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placed in the centrifuge the upper layer

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contains the serum and this is removed

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and placed into a small separatory

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funnel solvent is then added to this

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funnel and after it shakes it's

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metabolites will be contained in the

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lower layer which is the organic solvent

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evaporator this concentrated solution is

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chromatograph which now separates this

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for each compound now the computer is

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drugs which this person is ingested

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methaqualone the computer system used

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university laboratory and supported by

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various governmental agencies in this

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case this NASA and national institutes

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of health has contributed to the

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generation of the instrumental system

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that profound reason another in an

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emergency situation and need help

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rapidly reliably and cheaply Moonrock

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analyzer getting doctors a new

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diagnostic tool our next historic clip

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from 1974 shows how space sensors help

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sensors used in studies for spaceflight

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California are now being put to good use

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University Marty these are electrodes

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cerebral palsy we have the beginning to

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most less so that's play what place will

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test you know you could help me you'd

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lie see these blue tabs you can pull

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this off the paper for me cuz I'll need

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Marty these are the surface electrodes

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doing as you're walking girls learning

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modules are like radio stations to see

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my antenna over there miss Ford asked

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experiencing problems with the test

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equipment she had been using it tells

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dr. black good things about me okay

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before the shoulder work directly cabled

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machinery itself this creates a great

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deal of fear within the child because

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balance problems and having the wires

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weight also created many many problems

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with their balance so I don't feel that

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I was getting a true reading from their

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muscles where your muscle was back here

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we have to wait a second look at all the

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scrip of wines your muscles are making

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strong that they're going off my paper

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active and Schmidt early here's off this

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stance his swing phases using

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preamplifiers surface electrodes and

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cabling already developed for NASA Fran

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her own work we think the equipment the

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testing itself and equipment helps the

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youngsters by teaching them more about

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their body not just giving us data that

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we can put in an article for the

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classify under research teaches him more

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which muscles are acting as he's walking

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walking and he can try and more control

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definitely useful in fact we hope to

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have this equipment so simplified that

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mini therapist untrained therapists can

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crippled children schools all over the

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to be sent into a medical center they

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centralized location for this kind of

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cooperative another use for space

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technology may affect bridge safety as

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this 1974 clip shows there are nearly

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half a million bridges in this country

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although infrequently they do

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occasionally collapse causing injury and

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death such was the case on December

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fifteenth nineteen sixty seven when the

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silver bridge in Point Pleasant West

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Virginia collapsed from a structural

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defect in fell into the Ohio River 48

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surveillance techniques such as is

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represented by random deck could very

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well have foretold the structural

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failure before it happened and that's

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exactly what we're trying to do with

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random deck we want to be able to keep

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very close track or lock poker trachten

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has been possible in the past of the

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utilization at NASA's Ames Research

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technique is the means of obtaining

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random vibrational inputs to a structure

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there and processing those signals

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through an analyzer to obtain a

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signature for the structure now that

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signature won't change with time unless

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itself of the bridge tiding

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if the technique is feasible for use on

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describes how the tests are made well we

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started out here with the portable

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equipment that we need in the back of a

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that have been previously glued to the

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structural members of the bread this has

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two advantages one you don't damage the

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bridge at all and you can always go back

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for the same exact same location with

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your accelerometer then the wire that

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accelerometer and carried back down the

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hill and plugged in to the tape

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recording equipment dr. Robert Reed of

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Nielsen engineering and research is

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making the on-site measurements here we

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have a portable oscilloscope which

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actually shows the vibration that's

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small car now you'll see a burst of

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the data is played back through our

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analysis equipment which we can see your

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coal also abuse on engineering processes

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the bridge data through the random that

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computer it reforms here and each time

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now as this signature forms it will take

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that there are no changes our riff

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change did occur then we could would

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have to go back to the bridge and

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like this if there were a crack or other

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structural problems on the bridge today

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bridges are visually inspected in the

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future these same bridges may be

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reliably and inexpensively monitored for

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structural defects long before damage

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occurs using techniques from Aeronautics

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and Space Research in another clip we

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see how a quadriplegic is aided by a

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space device an electronic device

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designed originally to activate controls

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in a spacecraft in case astronauts lost

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the use of their limbs is now being used

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at Jackson Memorial Hospital Miami and

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other places by people like 18 year old

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George Cunningham George was injured

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playing football on November 21st 1973

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as a result he's paralyzed from the neck

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down new life as it is called is built

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by scientific systems international and

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combines two small video display screens

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and a miniature computer with a huff and

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a puff George can do for himself what

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others had to do before this is panel

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here with 19 different things I can do

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and on the left side I have different

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numbers okay on the right side the 19

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different things are called channels

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that's a picket channel I inhale on this

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thing like I'm going to number two I

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inhaled one was on zero and the numbers

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flash by and I inhaled on two now to

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work it I brought it to get the dial

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and it's on zero and I born 02 start the

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now what somebody answers I just talking

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oh hello Connie yeah this is George I

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hire van are you fine art are you coming

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to hospital tonight yeah yeah what time

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can you get here now visiting hours are

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over at eight-thirty could he make it

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around seven yeah all right seeing that

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okay bye-bye and then I just blow to

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hang up George can't control the volume

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on his TV set the same way now inhale

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again forget to number four and that's

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the volume and then I blow you could

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turn it up I could blow again it'll turn

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it down to call nurse that's number one

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on my channel box all I do is inhale

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until it gets to one inhale again and

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then blow the nurses like clothes on

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when you get a minute and you give me a

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glass of water please sure I'll be in in

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just a minute then I can go and turn my

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radio on by inhaling wait until gets the

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five inhaling again then blowing that

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turns it on and then i can change

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offered with it eventually i could just

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turn it off i keep blowing I inhale

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again not blow not life behind we should

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go on young Cunningham can even open and

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close the curtains in his room we asked

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George of being able to do things for

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himself had changed his outlook oh

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definitely I pick it up gives me an idea

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of what I can do when they get out of

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here I can do many things for the

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telephone companies hiring people I can

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do different recordings and stuff like

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that and it'll help me with college with

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the help of a device developed for use

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by astronauts in space quadriplegics and

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others with great physical problems are

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being aided in their struggle for

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NASA spin-offs have been used to help

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amputees to the releasing mechanism that

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hold Saturn rockets on the pad until the

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engines reach full thrust and high

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purity carbon lining the engine nozzles

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are now being used in a pilot program to

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make better fitting quick releasing

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artificial legs and arms here a test to

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check the release mechanism that will be

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used in launching the American half of

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next year's joint us-soviet link up in

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space 3 2 1 March of last year a doctor

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from rancho las amigas hospital visited

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us to tell us about the work on the dial

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compatible carbon after the formal

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presentation we had a promise Owens is a

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design engineer at the Kennedy Space

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Center Florida during this the doctor

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asked if we could not use our experience

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on disconnects to come up with a simple

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easy way to connect an artificial limb

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to the stub of an amputee something will

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allowed dispensing of all the former

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trappings such as straps and belts we

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used our experience and came up with a

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prototype like this for a leg attachment

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one of the problems of designing a

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device which has no precedent in use is

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that unusual designs have to be used in

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terms of the equipment dr. vert Mooney

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is chief of the amputees Center rancho

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los Amigos hospital los angeles senators

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of nasa installations and the people at

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kennedy space center heard us describe

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our difficulty in achieving a connector

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system apparently this is a problem

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which they had solved nicely for

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connective systems to their umbilical

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lines with the space shots and they

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presented their ability to solve this

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for us which indeed they did and they

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have manufactured the connector system

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in the metallic implant

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we did the general design work as to

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what we's needed but they very nicely

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accomplished the solution of it tabela

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illustrate this is an exact replica what

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was used in the first operation rancho

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las amigas in March this portion was

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implanted in the lower leg of a patient

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and this portion is being built into the

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artificial limb to attach will attach

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in less than six months NASA engineers

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built an inexpensive scaled-down version

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of the quick release mechanism parts

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made at the Kennedy Space Center include

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a special shock absorbing rubber

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isolator cast and vulcanized in the

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and the steel shaft that is eventually

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implanted into the bone attached to the

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metal shaft and protruding through the

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skin is a small high-purity carbon

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button the type of carbon developed for

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use in the space program the body

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doesn't reject carbon as it does other

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materials here surgeons at Rancho Los

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Amigos Hospital prepare to implant the

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steel shaft and carbon button into the

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lower leg of an amputee patient although

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it will be a while before the technique

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is made available for general clinical

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use doctors are optimistic about this

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space hardware that makes snap-on

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our final historical documentary report

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goes back to nineteen seventy-four as

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did all but the first of our films

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during the show this report documents

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how space technology was used to improve

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this is three and one-half year-old

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Jennifer gurashi Oh since July 1973

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jennifer has been using a unique

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rechargeable pacemaker to increase her

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heart rate from slow to near normal she

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joins some 60,000 other Americans who

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have heart pacemakers implanted every

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year developed by Johns Hopkins

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University Applied Physics Laboratory

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the pacemaker makes use of power cells

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originally used aboard satellites in

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space it is half the thickness and

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one-third the volume of earlier models

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and can be painlessly recharged from

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outside the body for 20 years this

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eliminates the need for surgery every

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two years to remove and replace

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batteries mrs. kathleen garay she owed

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tells what the new device has meant to

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her daughter Jennifer meant a lot

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because since Jennifer's had the

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pacemaker there's been a complete change

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in her she's grown in size she's acting

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very normal we before she really

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couldn't pray or keep up with the other

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children it also means a great deal so

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was knowing that she doesn't have to be

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operated on every two years and

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also the size of it that it's small

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enough for her the other pacemakers are

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quite large what the pacemaker does is

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send an electrical impulse to the heart

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speeding up Jennifer's heartbeat from a

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slow rate of 42 a normal 72 beats a

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minute and normal she is she does nearly

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everything a healthy youngster can do

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and especially enjoys playing with her

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brothers cousins and friends her routine

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was different for only 90 minutes a week

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when she recharges the pacemaker

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batteries pacemakers charger is very

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it's convenient enough to carry you can

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take it anywhere necessary to charge her

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it's also very good if we were at a

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week's vacation we wouldn't have to take

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it with us if you mix a week you can

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catch up on it but there'd be no harm to

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Jennifer if we should not do it that

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alarm means that the charging head is

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not meeting up it lets us know that it's

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not charging when it stops the green

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light goes on and that means that she's

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being charged and when the whole

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charging period is finished a blue light

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goes on a let us know that it's the end

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of the charge this means that she's

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charged for another week and we'll have

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to do it until next week we asked mrs.

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Garagiola about the outlook for

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Jennifer's future the outlook for

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Jennifer's future is very good the

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doctors say that she can live to be a

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ripe old age and she could grow up to to

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be anything she wants to be the basic

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concept for the long life battery in

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Jennifer's pacemaker has been proven in

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over 10 years of space use a good

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example of technology for space now

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being used to help people that's all for

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this edition of NASA images but before

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we go I'd like to invite you to stop by

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and visit our visitor center here at the

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NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland

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and enjoy the many displays that are

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here until next time this is Lynn

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Bondurant saying goodbye from the NASA