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the crew of sts-129 that flew aboard

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space shuttle atlantis in november was

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introduced to the verizon center crowd

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during a break in the january 12th

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basketball game between the detroit

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pistons and host washington wizards

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the astronauts were at center court for

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a photo op and to display an nba jersey

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that was flown on their shuttle flight

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to the international space station

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we're actually going to be

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going to several nba games to basically

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promote the fact that we took this

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jersey

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traveled four and a half million miles

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with it

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and ultimately we're going to present it

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at the nba all-star game to the nba so

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it's a uh basically a memento for them

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and uh you know we'll present it to them