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this week at NASA NASA managers gave a

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thumbs-up for Space Shuttle Discovery's

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upcoming launch to the International

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November first and we see pretty much

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normal flow between now and November

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first so again a very thorough review

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the teams are very focused on what they

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announcement followed a Flight Readiness

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review held at the Kennedy Space Center

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in Florida at which shuttle managers

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assess preparations for Discovery's

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final flights quite a remarkable history

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for discovery it's had a whole bunch of

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firsts it carried Hubble into orbit it

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it was our return to flight vehicle

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following both Challenger and Columbia

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and so it kind of was the Pathfinder as

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we put new new systems in place new

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safety features at the end of at the end

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of its its life here it'll have traveled

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over about 150 million miles and the

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more impressive staff that I saw today

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was number of days it'll be in space

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they'll be at just about a year sts-133

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the 35th shuttle mission to the orbiting

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complex includes crew members commander

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steve lindsey pilot eric boe and mission

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specialists alvin drew mike barratt tim

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kopra and nicole stott discovery will

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deliver and install the permanent

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multi-purpose module the Express

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logistics carrier for provide critical

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spare station components and bring into

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space the first humanoid robot Robonaut

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2 which will take up permanent residency

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you actually pull out the soil NASA

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joined with more than 500 organizations

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in Washington to inspire the next

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generation of scientists and engineers

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at the USA science and engineering

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festival NASA's 28 booths featured

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hands-on activities demonstrations and

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exhibits many illustrating the agency's

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scientific missions the two day Expo on

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the National Mall and surrounding

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locations also culminated NASA's new

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summer of innovation education

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initiative aimed at engaging middle

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school students in science technology

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engineering and math activities during

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summer break summer of innovation

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reached more than 75,000 middle

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schoolers during its inaugural year soil

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inside shadowy craters on the moon is

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rich in useful materials that's one of

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the findings by NASA scientists after

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analyzing the impact plume created by

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the lunar crater observation and sensing

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satellite l cross mission last year the

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lunar soil also show that the moon is

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chemically active and has a water cycle

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there are a variety of sources either

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comets or the solar wind and these

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sources are coming to the moon and then

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once at the moon this water is migrating

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moving around the moon and finding its

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way to various places like the cold

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craters but it doesn't stop there once

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in the cold craters there's chemistry

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going on that's further changing these

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compounds having them interact with each

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other and resulting in this mix of water

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and other things l cross collected

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invaluable data as it flew through the

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debris kicked up by the crash of its

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center Rockets spent upper-stage into a

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permanently shadowed region of a lunar

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crater on october nine 2009 the other

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thing we found that was really startling

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a real surprise was just the total

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amount of material other than dirt in

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this crater we found between ten and

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twenty percent other material by other

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material I mean water hydrocarbons like

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methane and ammo

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we found things like carbon dioxide

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sulfur dioxide we even found mercury

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frozen out in this dark crater that was

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a huge surprise scientists believe the

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materials found in the permanently

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shadowed region of the crater named

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cabayos might not have seen sunlight for

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billions of years I am having so much

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fun at the White House Science Fair

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President Obama viewed exhibits of

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winning student projects ranging from

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breakthrough basic research to new

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invention among the exhibits was one

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from a Los Angeles California team that

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captured the inspire award the most

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prestigious honor at the 2010 FIRST Tech

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Challenge the NASA robotics Alliance

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project supports participation in the

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FIRST Robotics Competition by providing

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grants to high school teams as well as

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sponsoring first regional competitions

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NASA is bringing the public one step

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closer to the universe through a

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partnership with gowalla the mobile web

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application lets users check in via

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smartphone as they visit a location when

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users visit a NASA related venue such as

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the Kennedy Space Center or here at the

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Smithsonian National Air and Space

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Museum there will be awarded a virtual

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NASA item such as moon rocks or a space

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shuttle gowalla users collecting enough

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of these items will qualify for the

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chance to win a special limited edition

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NASA gowalla map the virtual items will

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be available at NASA visitor centers and

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at more than 400 museums science centers

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observatories and other NASA Museum

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alliance members to view the NASA

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gowalla map and connect with NASA and

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Astro Mike on gowalla and other social

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media applications visit w WN ase gov /

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the sunshield for the James Webb Space

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Telescope has successfully passed the

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first in a series of launch

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depressurization tests to verify its

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flight design jwst a next-generation

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space observatory and successor to the

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Hubble Space Telescope will observe the

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most distant objects in the universe

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galaxies and see unexplored planets

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around distant stars to capture these

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faint infrared images the telescope's

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instruments must stay below minus three

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hundred sixty nine point seven degrees

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protect these critical observation

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instruments from the heat of the Sun and

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tests prove that the stowed folded sun

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shield will retain its shape during

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launch and ventilate properly both

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functions are critical to its successful

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deployment and performance scheduled to

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launch in 2014 the James Webb Space

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Telescope will be the most powerful

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space telescope ever built if you like

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trouble you'll love James Webb because

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James Webb will be a hundred times more

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sensitive than the Hubble so it'll not

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only continue the great science of

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bubble but expanded greatly and now

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imagine a future where some airplanes

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can be controlled from cell phones or

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cars get a hundred miles to the gallon

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that future is already here as

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demonstrated at aviation unleashed a

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conference in hampton virginia sponsored

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by NASA's Langley Research Center and

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the National Institute of aerospace the

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event work to bring visionaries and

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entrepreneurs together to paint a

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picture of what kinds of surprises

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aviation might have for us by 2050 what

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would they be surprised to learn that

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they will be surprised to learn new

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systems it's going to be exciting I mean

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larger size that you're inside and can

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fly around in that could be our future

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that could be sitting in your garage for

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now that quadricopter is primarily a toy

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the parrot AR drone equipped with four

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rotors a camera and Wi-Fi that can be

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flown from an iphone or ipad but some

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NASA engineers and students are using

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Aeronautics research one popular vehicle

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all it was the automotive X Prize

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winning Edison to very light car that

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can travel a hundred miles on one gallon

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of gas the automobile has some things in

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common with an aircraft it's designed to

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be very light and very aerodynamic in

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fact we have some really good arrow

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some future aerodynamicists also give

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conference participants a look at their

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vision students from the University of

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Maryland's Morpheus lab showcased flying

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a six-member crew from Discovery

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Channel's MythBusters visited the Glenn

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Research Center to film a segment for

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the popular show lovelyz in its eighth

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season Mythbusters test the validity of

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common myths and rumors using scientific

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methodology and ingenuity while they

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were not at liberty to discuss what myth

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utilize Glenn's icing research tunnel

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the IRT is used by researchers to

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develop test and certify methods to

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prevent ice buildup on gas

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fluids for both military and commercial

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aircraft and that's this week @nasa for