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this week at nasa

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shuttle program managers believe they've

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identified the root cause of cracks

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found on support beams on space shuttle

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discovery's external tank

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modifications will be made to these

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beams called stringers to offset

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material and assembly stresses

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discovered through extensive testing and

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analysis conducted at the marshall space

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this was originally a 90-day mission

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over three months and here we are some

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seven years later and we're still

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exploring this month the twin rovers

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spirit and opportunity are completing

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their seventh year on mars while spirit

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remains immobile and in a slumber

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following the harsh martian winter

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opportunity rolls on investigating rocks

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on the lip of a football field-sized

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crater these images taken by the mars

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reconnaissance orbiter's high resolution

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imaging science experiment the high-rise

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camera show opportunity perched on the

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western edge of the santa maria crater

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the rover is slated to explore santa

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maria over the next several weeks

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scientists hope that as the martian

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landscape warms up spirit may rouse

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itself and begin to communicate again

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once opportunity is finished at the

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santa maria crater it'll resume a

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multi-year trek towards endeavor crater

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we know there are these clay minerals

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present in the rim of endeavor crater

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that is suggestive of ancient water on

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mars that was of neutral ph

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neutral water is what astrobiologists

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assess that life started in and so the

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fact that there is evidence of ancient

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neutral water on mars is very exciting

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for the biopotential of the planet

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good morning falcons

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nasa's associate administrator for

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education leland melvin toured three

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nasa field centers in california taking

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time to speak with staff about the

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agency's education goals and their

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encouragement of middle school students

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to pursue studies in science technology

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engineering and mathematics get the

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tools in your head the reading the

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writing the math the science all the

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things your teachers are teaching you

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right now so that you can do anything

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you want to

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anything you put your mind to you can do

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during stops at the ames research center

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the jet propulsion laboratory and the

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dryden flight research center melvin

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emphasized support of students to live

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their dreams by studying hard focusing

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on their goals and avoiding people who

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doubt their abilities to attain them but

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whatever you dream anything you dream

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if you work at it if you believe it if

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you put your mind to it you can do it a

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former astronaut melvin is responsible

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for developing and implementing

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education programs that not only

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increase public awareness of nasa but

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also energized student interest in

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it could be every child's dream to have

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one but this 60 by 20 foot sandbox at

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the glenn research center is not for

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instead the slope for simulated lunar

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operations facility provides researchers

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from nasa and the canadian space agency

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with moon-like soil to test ways to

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harvest resources on the surface of the

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moon and other planets

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this is where

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we learn how to collect the materials

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in teaming with a canadian mining

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who brings that kind of expertise that

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nasa doesn't normally have this is

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allowing us to collect these materials

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and produce mission consumables like

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oxygen and water and other things that

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at slope researchers can measure the

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force and traction of a rover and other

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hardware and use that data to develop

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and build machines for excavation on the

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moon and other future destinations

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we believe that using resources on the

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moon and mars to sustain the crew rather

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than bringing those resources from earth

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is the best way to make space travel

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middle and high schoolers from southern

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california literally elevated ping pong

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to new heights as they competed in the

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13th annual invention challenge hosted

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teams built unique devices to lift the

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small lightweight spheres

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no paddles required two one go stop

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the contest objective is to take a

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regular ping-pong ball

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and get it from the ground up to a

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ceiling that's

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two meters tall you can see that in the

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each device had to start with a single

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operation such as cutting a string or

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throwing a switch

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secure energy sources and only non-toxic

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and safe materials were used twelve

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teams of jpl engineers and scientists

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also competed against the clock we're

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from valley high school this is bullet

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billy uh we're basically a modified

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our participation went from like one

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student team to two student teams to 30

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and get out there and use their

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imagination

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team building skills

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creativity actually building something

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testing something having it fail

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and then learning from that and

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improving the device

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it's basically turning all these

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students into young engineers at an

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early age that's really what it's all

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about although requirements vary from

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year to year the annual invention

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challenge is always fiercely competed

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with the same results students learn

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that math science and engineering can be

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and that's this week at nasa for more on