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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden

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visited the Laindon elementary school in

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Washington DC to support national lab

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day yeah if it has not closed Bolden a

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veteran of four space shuttle flights

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spoke with fifth graders about life and

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work in space what's the rocketship you

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orbiting Earth that's the International

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Space Station as long as it goes 17,500

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miles an hour it stays in orbit because

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the centrifugal force created and he and

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other NASA volunteers then joined the

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students and their adventure to become

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rocket scientists for a day by building

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and demonstrating large paper rockets

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and test flying them using the

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National Lab day is a nationwide

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initiative to bring together university

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students scientists engineers and

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volunteers to help educators expose

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their kindergarten through 12th grade

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students to discovery based science

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experiments it gives these kids an

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opportunity to see something that they

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can only imagine or sometimes they can't

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even imagine because they've never been

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exposed to it that's why I think it's

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absolutely fantastic we've had a number

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of schools in which NASA engineers and

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scientists have gone out into the

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community and have really turned the

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school around have made a dramatic

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difference in in the performance of the

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students and in the ability of the

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teachers to teach because it helps the

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teachers to become very comfortable with

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the concepts of math science physics

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engineering