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endeavour two weeks after their launch

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aboard space shuttle endeavour the

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sts-130 crew made a safe return to earth

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with a smooth landing at the kennedy

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space center main gear touchdown

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pilot terry verts deploying the drag

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chute

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roger wheel stop endeavor welcome home

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congratulations to you and the crew on

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an outstanding mission

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installing the tranquility node and

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opening up the cupola's windows to the

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it's great to be home but it was a great

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adventure

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in the 14 days they spent in space the

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sps-130 crew delivered and installed the

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the cupola is a robotic control station

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with six windows around its sides and

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another in the center that provides

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station crews with the best view in

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space a panorama of earth celestial

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until now space station crews have had

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to peer out relatively small portholes

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want to say that sts 130 is mission

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we're safe on deck here in

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kennedy space center

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and that's due to the work of a lot of

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people we had a great team

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we had tremendous hardware to bring up

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note 3 was pristine cupola was beautiful

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both in design and care

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before we left and endeavor my goodness

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what a what a machine

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she was she was perfect throughout the

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we brought her back safe and sound due

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to a great mission control team as well

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hey guys a phone call from president

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obama was a mission milestone the

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president spoke from the roosevelt room

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of the white house with both the sts-130

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and expedition 22 crews aboard the iss i

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think i speak for all the young people

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everybody back home

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how proud we are of you

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how excited we are about the work that's

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being done on the space station

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and how committed we are to continuing

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human space exploration

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in the future the president discussed

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their missions with commanders george

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zamka and jeff williams and their

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respective shuttle and station crew

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members well thank you very much mr

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president it is a large team effort in

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front of you you have the uh

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the joint crew of endeavor and in the

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space station and we are the ones that

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are fortunate enough to be able to uh

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accomplish this great mission together

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uh in space but there are many thousands

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of people around the world that get gave

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the best of themselves uh over many

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years in order to to have the days that

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we've been having up here mr obama noted

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the iss's new era of discovery and

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innovation that'll foster scientific

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breakthroughs through advances in space

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research conducted in the station's

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laboratories when we do

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cellular research for even like for

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cancer research for instance

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on earth the cells actually collapse

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under their own weight and so it their

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growth on earth are a little bit

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distorted here without the gravity

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effect we can grow cells very purely and

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understand that the mechanisms by which

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that they are replicating the president

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also took special interest in the

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station's new cupola that in addition to

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its great views we'll host a robotics

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workstation the

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astronauts but also uh our colleagues

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human ingenuity

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a testimony to extraordinary

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skill

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and courage that you guys bring to bear

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and uh it's also a testimony to why

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continued space exploration is so

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important and

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is part of the reason why

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commitment to nasa

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is unwavering middle school students

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from michigan florida north carolina and

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nebraska who were in washington for an

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engineering competition and several

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dignitaries joined president obama to

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ask questions of the orbiting astronauts

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um what are some of the benefits of

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exploring space as opposed to exploring

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other places on earth learning about how

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we ourselves work and how we can handle

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changes if we go somewhere

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very different than what we use used to

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is something that's valuable also on

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earth because our environment changes on

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earth too and in terms of

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health and medicine we understand better

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how our own bodies work so there's a lot

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to be learned this was the second call

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president obama has made to the

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international space station he spoke

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with the crews of sts-119 and expedition

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new findings by nasa's chandra x-ray

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observatory in the andromeda galaxy have

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provided a major advance in

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understanding a type of supernova

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believed critical to studying dark

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a zoom into this composite image of

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andromeda also known as m31 shows

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astronomers that the merger of what's

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left of two dense stars is the likely

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cause of many type ia supernovas type ia

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supernovas have been used to measure the

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accelerated expansion of the universe

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astronomers believe that expansion is

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being caused by the dark energy they

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think pervades the universe and about

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the telescope aboard nasa's

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stratospheric observatory for infrared

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astronomy or sophia was successfully

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activated during a january 15th test

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flight of almost six hours

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engineers examined the telescope's

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movement and stability to verify that it

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could remain locked in on a celestial

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while the aircraft maneuvers in flight

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this successful dry run comes after the

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telescope's large cavity external door

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was opened during two test flights in

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these developments paved the way for

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sophia to begin astronomy missions as

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early as the spring

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a new nasa website can help our future

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explorers and leaders better understand

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the hows and whys of climate change and

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what they can do to make our planet more

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called climate kids the new website is

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the latest companion to nasa's

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award-winning global climate change

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website

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new techniques aimed at students in

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grades four through six the multimedia

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rich site uses age-appropriate language

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games and humorous illustrations and

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animations to help break down and

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understand an important topic most

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adults find difficult to grasp kind of

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you don't say look my habitat is

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the wrong ice what did you say climate

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kits can be found at http colon double

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slash climate.nasa.gov

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48 years ago mercury astronaut john

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glenn became the first american to orbit

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the earth when an atlas rocket

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successfully carried his friendship

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glenn completed three orbits to usher in

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a new era of space travel oh that view

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is tremendous that eventually led to

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apollo astronauts walking on the moon

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and that's this week at nasa for more on