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nasa administrator charles bolden joined

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with other nasa volunteers in helping

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these fifth graders become rocket

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scientists for the day what happens

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the students at the langlen elementary

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school in washington built and test flew

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their own paper rockets using a high

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the adventure was part of national lab

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day the nationwide initiative is a call

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to action for university students

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scientists engineers and volunteers to

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help educators expose their kindergarten

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through 12th grade students to discovery

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based science experiments

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a veteran of four space shuttle flights

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administrator bolden also spoke with the

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students about the excitement of his

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missions 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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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 and and that's what that's

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nasa assets continue to help scientists

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track two events causing worldwide

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nasa's instrumented research aircraft

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the earth resources 2 or er2 has been

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deployed to the gulf of mexico to do

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flyovers of the deepwater horizon bp oil

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spill and the coastline it threatens the

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agency is also making extra satellite

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observations and conducting additional

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data processing to help u.s disaster

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response agencies assess the spread and

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meanwhile nasa's aqua satellite is

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yoghurt volcano the spacecraft's

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modis instrument is grabbing pictures of

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the volcano's ash plume to help airlines

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and air traffic control systems

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nasa's international space station

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program has been awarded the 2009

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collier trophy considered aviation's

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highest honor

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the national aeronautic association the

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country's oldest national aviation

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organization bestowed the prestigious

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award on the iss team not only for its

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design development and assembly of the

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world's largest spacecraft but also for

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the complex's promising discoveries and

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pioneering new standards for

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accepting the award on behalf of the iss

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team was nasa deputy administrator lori

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garver i truly am standing on the

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shoulders of giants i of course only

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while i was there in the 90s was not an

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integral part of the space station team

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so i always a while i was a cheerleader

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which shouldn't be a surprise to you all

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and have contributed to the

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international space station success

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so many of you in the room tonight

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have made this possible for nasa and it

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is really your award a joint project of

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nasa and the space agencies of russia

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canada europe and japan the

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international space station is nearing

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completion and later this year will mark

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its 10th anniversary of a continuous

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human presence in orbit

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jet propulsion laboratory engineers used

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a helicopter to run a series of tests of

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the mars science laboratory's landing

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the msl will use radar to descend on a

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parachute and during the final seconds

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before landing lower the upright rover

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on a tether to the surface much like a

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these tests will collect data over

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various terrains simulating their

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once landed the rover will be able to

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roll over obstacles up to 29 inches high

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and travel up to 295 feet per hour

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currently in its assembly and testing

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phase msl is scheduled to launch in the

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fall of 2011 and arrive at the red

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planet the following summer to usher in

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the next decade of mars exploration

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thanks to a program at the nasa marshall

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students are helping scientific and

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community leaders make better informed

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decisions about lyme disease and how and

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where this chronic illness is likely to

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strike the local public

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through the development applied sciences

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program the students performed field

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work and used remote sensing data

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provided by marshall to analyze soil

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program that i'm mentoring we're really

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focusing on public health benefits

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and one might think that what's nasa

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well in actuality many of the problems

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to solve their problems or to inform the

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and with nasa's satellite data and

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models it's an ideal combination to go

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into the public health community and

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provide them information that they need

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to do their job

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results of their satellite imagery

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analysis showed areas of dense

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vegetation overlapped with high soil

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moisture likely tick habitats the

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students also learned how to share their

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data with the scientific community and

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the public sponsored by nasa's applied

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science program develop encourages

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students to not only pursue careers in

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technical fields but also help the

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public through expanded use of

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information obtained by nasa satellites

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a new book highlighting some of the most

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beautiful and awe-inspiring images

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captured by the hubble space telescope

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is now available in stores and online

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hubble a journey through space and time

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features the observatory's spectacular

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visual legacy in stunning images that

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include what many consider are its 20

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most important scientific findings to

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date they range from planets in our

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regions where stars and planets are

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being born right now to just the

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opposite regions where stars are dying

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right now to nearby galaxies to black

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holes at the centers of galaxies and

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clusters of galaxies and then out to the

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very earliest galaxies so it's really

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like a time tunnel a walk through the

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universe and looking back in time the

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classic images all selected by nasa

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astronomers show stars being born and

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dying galaxies colliding and reforming

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and the young universe in the throes of

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creation

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also contained in this authoritative

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account of the observatory that's

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revolutionized astronomy and photography

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are comments from scientists and veteran

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moving up 37 years ago america's first

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space station skylab was launched into

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center atop a saturn v rocket

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a dry or empty third stage of the rocket

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was completely outfitted as a workshop

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accessing skylab in apollo spacecraft

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three three-man crews occupied the space

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station for a total of 171 days and 13

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nearly 300 scientific technical and

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medical experiments were conducted in

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the skylab on july 11 1979

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the empty spacecraft disintegrated as it

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and that's this week at nasa for more on