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this week at NASA sts-133 is now

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targeted to begin on februari 24th at

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450 p.m. shuttle program managers

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believe that by then modifications to

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support beings on discoveries external

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tank will have been completed cracks in

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these support beams call stringers were

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discovered after sts-133 launch attempt

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on November fifth a combination of

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material and assembly stresses have

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since been identified as their root

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cause the engineering teams at kennedy

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at marshall at JSC here of the prime

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contractor on the tank lockheed martin

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they're all in sync with our fix they

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agree that there were on the road to to

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bringing this tank to 100% the

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six-member crew of sts-133 the next to

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last scheduled space shuttle mission

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will deliver logistics and supplies to

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the International Space Station as well

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as perform maintenance and outfitting of

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the orbiting complex our primary

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objective the way I describe it for

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people in a nutshell is is to basically

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leave space station in the best possible

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shape for the next error which is the

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arrow Linea we're no longer flying space

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shuttles and have huge amounts of up

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mass we can take up the space station

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good day Vladimir Vladimirovich the crew

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of expedition 26 to the ISS the

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expedition 26 crew aboard the

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International Space Station received a

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call from Russian Prime Minister

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Vladimir Putin in Moscow I would like to

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greet everybody at the Mission Control

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Putin offered his condolences to ISS

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commander Scott Kelly for the tragedy in

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Tucson and assured Kelly all Russians

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were touched by the news we express our

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deepest condolences to your family and

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to all those who were touched by this

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terrible crime putin also passed along

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his best wishes and prayers to Kelly's

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brother mark and for the recovery of

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Mark's wife Congresswoman Gabrielle

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Giffords peep about my connector yeah

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headed on thank you very much of course

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I will pass on your horse to my brother

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Putin then invited the crew to Moscow in

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April for a series of events to

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commemorate the 50th anniversary of the

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first human in space Yuri Gagarin on

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April twelfth 1961 the Prime Minister

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chairs the National Commission helping

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organize the celebration on anywhere

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else where water is involved as in past

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years NASA research findings took front

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and center at the 2011 meeting of the

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american astronomical society held this

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year in seattle among them confirmation

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that NASA's Kepler spacecraft has

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discovered its first rocky planet named

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Kepler 10 B it's 1.4 times the size of

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Earth and is the smallest planet ever

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discovered outside our solar system

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after 10 B is orbiting a star very much

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like our own Sun but with an age larger

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than 28

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in a distance of 560 light-years and we

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know this is one of the best known stars

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harboring an exoplanet it exists to date

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the discovery of this so-called

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exoplanet is based on more than eight

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months of data collected by Kepler from

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may 2009 to early january 2010 using

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Kepler's detection of changes in a

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star's brightness as a planet orbits in

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front of it astronomers can measure the

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distance between the planet and the star

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since Kepler can be orbits its star in

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less than a day it's deemed too hot to

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support life as we know it there's been

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some very exciting results related to

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Mars research in the past 10 years or so

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a Mars exploration program event was

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held at the moving beyond Earth gallery

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at the Smithsonian's National Air and

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Space Museum in Washington entitled from

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follow the water to seeking signs of

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life prominent scientists from NASA the

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European Space Agency and academia took

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part in a discussion that highlighted

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milestones achieved in the exploration

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of the red planet following the water

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we've been trying to understand the

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history of water on this planet and why

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our sister planet looks so different

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today than the earth looks we've learned

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a lot about that but now we're ready to

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move to a new phase about whether life

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ever existed on that planet or doesn't

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exist today presenters also talked about

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upcoming missions such as the Mars

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Science Laboratory slated to launch this

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year and new discoveries anticipated in

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airplane passengers and people living

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near airports are all too familiar with

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the noise associated with air travel

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after years of work and research with

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partners in industry and academia nASA

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has developed a noise reduction

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technology called Chevron's Chevron's

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the sawtooth pattern on this jet engines

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trailing edges can significantly reduce

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the noise caused by commercial jet

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airplanes one commercial airliner with

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Chevron equipped jet engines is the new

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boeing 787 the Chevron's are the

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sawtooth pattern that you can see me if

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I hold it this angle a little bit better

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you can see the sawtooth pattern that's

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what it's called the Chevron and that is

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a change from just the regular smooth

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round lip that most nozzles have that

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change modifies how the flow downstream

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of the engine makes noise makes it so

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that it doesn't make as much noise which

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is obviously what we all want aircraft

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to be quieter NASA is also exploring

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noise reduction technologies for

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helicopters notoriously loud because of

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the air turbulence kicked up by their

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spinning blades like Chevron technology

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for jets finding a solution for

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helicopter noise will be one of trial

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and error the development of Chevron's

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is the one a good example of the kind of

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work it requires in this country and to

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bring ideas from fundamental research

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all the way to a product a display of

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Chevron's and how they work is on view

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in the lobby of NASA headquarters in

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with the construction of the langley

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research center's hydro impact basin

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complete 1 million gallons of water were

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pumped into the new a hundred fifteen

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foot long 20-foot deep and 90 foot wide

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facility this time lapse video documents

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the two-day process of filling the

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gantry the basin is located at the west

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end of Langley's historic landing and

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impact research facility nicknamed the

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gantry it's where Neil Armstrong once

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trained for the Apollo 11 lunar mission

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the gantry measures and controls the

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orientation of a test vehicle or

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equipment while obtaining information on

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it impact velocity data obtained here

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will be used to validate and certify

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space vehicles such as the Orion capsule

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teenagers around the world are ramping

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up their engineering skills with the

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start of the 2011 FIRST Robotics

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Competition high school students from

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Southeast Virginia filed into the

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Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton

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January eighth to learn more about this

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year's challenge they watched as

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speakers and a live broadcast on nasa TV

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unveiled the requirements for logo

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motion build a robot and mini bot that

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can move and climb as the egg game

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starts minibus race to the top of the

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towers each team including team 122 the

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NASA Knights mentored by engineers at

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nearby langley research center receives

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the same kit of parts battery nuts bolts

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cables everything they would need to

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build their creations except imagination

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and skill the new lab 2073 teams in nine

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countries will design solutions for

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FIRST Robotics 20th game the first step

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for Team 122 transporting the kit to its

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home turf new horizons Regional

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Education Center more than 50 team

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members and mentors representing a

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number of local schools and home schools

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waited they're ready to get to work on

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the new game this one I think it's gonna

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be a little challenging I don't know if

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it's maybe more challenging some of the

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older ones some things are pretty

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complicated I think we should be able to

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make this and pretty well the ultimate

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goal to design robots that will get the

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team to the finals in st. Louis in April

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I really like the competition and

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everyone just working together and when

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you go to the regionals and the

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championship everyone's just so nice and

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they're easy to work with and it's a lot

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of fun team members will be spending a

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lot of time together they have only six

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weeks to complete their robots NASA

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sponsors more than 275 first robotics

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teams will follow the NASA Knights of

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Langley to update their progress five

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years ago on january fifteenth 2006 the

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return capsule from nasa's stardust

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spacecraft completed its 2.9 billion

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mile round-trip journey to collect dust

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samples from the tail of comet ville de

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to research done on these particles

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gathered in the capsules aerogel

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collector revealed some surprises

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including the samples closer resemblance

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to a meteorite from an asteroid and that

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of an ancient comet Stardust is the

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first spacecraft to safely make it back

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to earth with commentary dust particles

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in tow and that's this week @nasa for

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